Room Rate Patterns and Customers' Propensity To Book a Hotel Room

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 287-306

  Chen, ChihChien ^a   Schwartz, Zvi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

advanced booking; information asymmetry; internal reference price; propensity to book; revenue management; room rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649797932     PISSN: 10963480     EISSN: 15577554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1096348008317389     Document Type: Article

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