Perceived spatial agglomeration effects and hotel location choice

Anatolia

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 49-60

  Adam, Issahaku ^a   Mensah, Emmanuel Abeashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST   (Ghana)

Author keywords

binary logistic regression; hotel location; periphery; spatial agglomeration effects

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION; LOCATION DECISION; SERVICE SECTOR; TOURISM; URBAN AREA;

ASHANTI; GHANA; KUMASI;

EID: 84896110139     PISSN: 13032917     EISSN: 21566909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13032917.2013.822818     Document Type: Article

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