Application of best-worst method in evaluation of medical tourism development strategy

Decision Science Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 77-86

  Abouhashem Abadi, Farzaneh ^a   Ghasemian Sahebi, Iman ^a   Arab, Alireza ^a   Alavi, Abbas ^a   Karachi, Hedieh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Best worst method; Medical tourism industry; Strategic planning; SWOT; Yazd Province

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019026511     PISSN: 19295804     EISSN: 19295812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5267/j.dsl.2017.4.002     Document Type: Article

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