Sustainability Ranking for Cuban Tourist Destinations Based on Composite Indexes

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 425-444

  Pérez, Víctor ^a,b   Hernández, Alain ^a   Guerrero, Flor ^b   León, María Amparo ^a   da Silva, Christian Luiz ^c   Caballero, Rafael ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE PINAR DEL RÍO   (Cuba)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Borda Count; Composite indicator; Data Envelopment Analysis; DP2 distance; Tourism sustainability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; LEISURE INDUSTRY; SUSTAINABILITY; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURIST DESTINATION;

CUBA;

EID: 84944707211     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: 15730921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-015-1110-7     Document Type: Article

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