Improving medical tourism services based on a hybrid MCDM model combined by DANP and VIKOR techniques

ICMIT 2014 - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 486-488

  Hung, Ying Hsun ^a   Ma, Jung ^a   Chou, Jerome Chih Lung ^a   Tzeng, Gwo Hshiung ^b  

^a HWA HSIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

DANP; MCDM; Medical Tourism Services; VIKOR

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; LEISURE INDUSTRY; QUALITY CONTROL;

ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS; DANP; DEMATEL (DECISION MAKING TRIAL AND EVALUATION LABORATORY); LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT; MCDM; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; TOURISM SERVICES; VIKOR;

TOURISM;

EID: 84912066258     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMIT.2014.6942475     Document Type: Conference Paper

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