Modeling tourism climate indices through fuzzy logic

Climate Research

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 49-63

  Olya, H ^a,b   Alipour, H ^a  

^a EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b British University of Nicosia   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cross cultural differences; Fuzzy based climate index for tourism; Linguistic expression

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL TRADITION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERCEPTION; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST DESTINATION;

CYPRUS;

EID: 84946072245     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01327     Document Type: Article

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