Quality differentiation and conditional spatial price competition among hotels

Tourism Management

Volumn 46, Issue , 2015, Pages 114-122

  Lee, Seul Ki ^a  

^a Sejong University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Agglomeration; Differentiation; Market boundaries; Price competition; Two stage least squares (2SLS)

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PRICE DYNAMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRICE DETERMINATION; TOURISM MARKET;

EID: 84904353386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2014.06.019     Document Type: Article

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