An analysis of skills and competencies of full service hotel technology managers

Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 19-35

  Cobanoglu, Cihan ^a   Dede, Pelin ^a   Poorani, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hotel; IT Skills; Managers; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249783902     PISSN: 15313220     EISSN: 15313239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J172v06n04_02     Document Type: Article

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