How smart is your tourist attraction?: Measuring tourist preferences of smart tourism attractions via a FCEM-AHP and IPA approach

Tourism Management

Volumn 54, Issue , 2016, Pages 309-320

  Wang, Xia ^a   Li, Xiang Robert ^b   Zhen, Feng ^a   Zhang, JinHe ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method (FCEM); Importance performance analysis (IPA); Smart tourism; Tourist; Tourist attraction

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METHODOLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84951286184     PISSN: 02615177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2015.12.003     Document Type: Article

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