Benchmarking international tourism destinations

Tourism Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1233-1247

  Assaf, A George ^a   Dwyer, Larry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Malmquist index; Metafrontier; Productivity; World tourism industry

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; HETEROGENEITY; INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION;

AFRICA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84892706391     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/te.2013.0354     Document Type: Article

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