Achieving balanced regional development in China: Is domestic or international tourism more efficacious?

Tourism Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 369-386

  Goh, Carey ^a   Li, Hengyun ^b   Zhang, Qiu ^a  

^a THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic tourism; Gini coefficient; Granger causality test; International tourism; Regional development

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL ECONOMY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA;

EID: 84928390876     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/te.2013.0353     Document Type: Article

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