How do travelers find their travel and hotel websites?

Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 239-246

  Law, Rob ^a   Huang, Truman ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b HRC Worldwide Hotel and Travel Service Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Optimization; Search engines; Travel websites; Websites

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; TRAVEL DEMAND; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 33749851923     PISSN: 10941665     EISSN: 17416507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10941660600753273     Document Type: Article

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