Where to vacation? An agent-based approach to modelling tourist decision-making process

Current Issues in Tourism

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2017, Pages 1557-1574

  Boavida Portugal, Inês ^a   Ferreira, Carlos Cardoso ^a   Rocha, Jorge ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE GEOGRAFIA E ORDENAMENTO DO TERRITÓRIO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

agent based models; complexity; decision making process; simulation; tourism system; tourist behaviour

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; DECISION MAKING; MODELING; RESEARCH METHOD; SIMULATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; TOURISM; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EID: 84930077355     PISSN: 13683500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2015.1041880     Document Type: Article

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