Estimating the Sensitivity of Foreign Health Tourism Demand to a Variety of Expenditures (In 5 advantageous land management areas

Subject Areas : Geography and tourism planning, geography and urban planning, urban planning, architecture, geography and rural planning, political geography

Mahdi kamali ¹ , Hamid Asayesh ² , Haidar Lotfi ³

1 - Faculty member of Islamic Azad University, Qeshm Branch
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Grand Ayatollah Boroujerdi University, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar Branch, Iran

Received: 2022-08-22 Accepted : 2022-08-22 Published : 2022-03-01

Keywords: Nearly Ideal Demand (NID), Landscaping Areas, Preventive Tourism (Foreign Health),

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