A study of visitors' leisure travel behavior in the northwest territories of Canada

Transportation Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-19

  LaMondia, Jeffrey J ^a   Bhat, Chandra R ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Combined leisure activity involvement; Composite Marginal Likelihood; Multivariate Binary Probit; Prior travel experience; Tourism travel behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883379854     PISSN: 19427867     EISSN: 19427875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3328/TL.2011.03.01.1-19     Document Type: Article

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