Exploring price and non-price decision making in the UK package tour industry: Insights from small-scale travel agents and tour operators

Tourism Management

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1236-1261

  Davies, Brian ^a   Downward, Paul ^b  

^a STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Oligopoly behaviour; Package tours; Practitioners; Price policy

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; OLIGOPOLY; PRICING POLICY; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34250193277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2006.09.020     Document Type: Article

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