Using a spatial hedonic analysis to evaluate the effect of sea view on hotel prices

Tourism Management

Volumn 65, Issue , 2018, Pages 87-99

  Latinopoulos, Dionysis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Accommodation price; Coastal tourism; Geographically weighted regression analysis; Hedonic pricing method; Sea view

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ESTHETICS; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HOTEL INDUSTRY; PRICE DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

GREECE;

EID: 85042149541     PISSN: 02615177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2017.09.019     Document Type: Article

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