Face-to-face or cyberspace? Choosing the Internet as an intermediary in the Israeli travel market

Tourism Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 345-359

  Fleischer, Aliza ^a   Felsenstein, Daniel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Internet; Simultaneous bivariate probit; Travel agents

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; INTERNET; TOURISM MARKET; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 5144229679     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/0000000041895067     Document Type: Article

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