The Influence of Remoteness and Isolation in the Rural Accommodation Rental Price among Eastern and Western Destinations

Journal of Travel Research

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 380-395

  Santana Jiménez, Yolanda ^a   Sun, Ya Yen ^b   Hernández, Juan M ^a   Suárez Vega, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

GIS; hedonic pricing; isolation; remoteness; rural tourism; spatial econometrics

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; GIS; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURIST DESTINATION;

SPAIN; TAIWAN;

EID: 84926481866     PISSN: 00472875     EISSN: 15526763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0047287513517423     Document Type: Article

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