Performance evaluation of commercial Web sites: An exploratory study of hotels in Mainland China

2008 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Xiaoyi, Wu ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Evaluation; Hotel; Websites

Indexed keywords

HOTELS; MARKETING; MOBILE COMPUTING; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CONTENT ANALYSIS; DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS; EVALUATION; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; FUTURE RESEARCHES; INTERACTIVITY; PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; SERVICE FIRMS; WEB SITES;

INTERNET;

EID: 58049102333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WiCom.2008.2216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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