Understanding destination choices of German travelers

Tourism Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 649-662

  Marcussen, Carl H ^a  

^a Centre for Regional and Tourism Research   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Destination choice; Logistic regression; Multiple regression; Probabilities of visitation; Temperature differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888413473     PISSN: 10835423     EISSN: 19433999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/108354211X13228713394642     Document Type: Article

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