How up-to-date are online tourism communities? An empirical evaluation of commercial and non-commercial information quality

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Prestipino, Marco ^a   Aschoff, Felix Robinson ^a   Schwabe, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; QUERY PROCESSING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

NON-COMMERCIAL INFORMATION QUALITY; ONLINE TOURISM COMMUNITIES;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 39749165680     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2007.251     Document Type: Conference Paper

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