A Robust Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Framework for Evaluation of the Airport Service Quality Enablers for Ranking the Airports

Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality and Tourism

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 351-370

  Prakash, Chandra ^a   Barua, M K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

AHP; Airport Service Quality (ASQ); fuzzy TOPSIS; India; multi criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961217941     PISSN: 1528008X     EISSN: 15280098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1528008X.2015.1096753     Document Type: Article

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