Hotel performance: State of the art

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 920-952

  Sainaghi, Ruggero ^a  

^a IULM UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Balanced scorecard; Business performance; Hotels; Performance measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986155760     PISSN: 09596119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09596111011066617     Document Type: Article

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