The aim of this research is to aid winery managers in bundling a plethora of different service features to meet the wine tourists' expectations. A discrete choice model using best-worst scaling (BWS) data is estimated to obtain the relative importance of the attributes included in the analysis....

In order to determine the level of satisfaction of the public transport services, the passengers jointly evaluate the various attributes that represent the different aspects of the level of service. From a methodological viewpoint this means finding the weighting that individuals use to evaluate...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the regional tourist competitiveness performance in Spain. We use the seven pillars of tourism from a very detailed and complete database compiled by the Spanish Government –MoniTUR 2010 as primary data. Thus, we calculate a DEA-MONITUR regional tourist...

The aim of this research is to aid winery managers in bundling a plethora of different service features to meet the wine tourists' expectations. A discrete choice model using best-worst scaling (BWS) data is estimated to obtain the relative importance of the attributes included in the analysis....

This paper evaluates gains in efficiency produced by the use of efficient designs to analyze stated choice (SC) data. Based on a standard experiment used in a previous research, we compare the efficiency of this design with that of the efficient design obtained according to the minimization of...

Although hotels usually have clients from different nationalities, the research analyses the multicultural effects on hotel customers' satisfaction is still scant. This paper aims to contribute to the realm of hotel management by providing interesting managerial insights into how different...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the regional tourist competitiveness performance in Spain. We use the seven pillars of tourism from a very detailed and complete database compiled by the Spanish Government -MoniTUR 2010 as primary data. Thus, we calculate a DEA-MONITUR regional tourist...

Although hotels usually have clients from different nationalities, the research analyses the multicultural effects on hotel customers' satisfaction is still scant. This paper aims to contribute to the realm of hotel management by providing interesting managerial insights into how different...

Este trabajo analiza los impactos de la nueva red de alta velocidad que se está construyendo en España. A partir de la estimación de un logit multinomial se calculan elasticidades con respecto a variables fundamentales (tiempo de viaje, frecuencia y precio). Los resultados indican que las...

Self-employed workers can be own-account workers who control their own work or employers who not only are their own boss but also direct others (their employees). We expect both types of self-employed, i.e., own-account workers and employers, to enjoy more independence in determining their work...