Towards understanding members' general participation in and active contribution to an online travel community

Tourism Management

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 709-722

  Wang, Youcheng ^a   Fesenmaier, Daniel R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Member needs; Motivation; Online travel community; Tourism marketing

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; TOURISM;

EID: 17244380812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2003.09.011     Document Type: Article

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