Competition among Tourist Destinations: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to Italian Provinces

Tourism and Regional Development: New Pathways

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 133-152

  Cracolici, M Francesca ^a   Nijkamp, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 85079299274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315235967-9     Document Type: Chapter

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