Website adoption and sales performance in Valais' hospitality industry

Technovation

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 625-631

  Scaglione, Miriam ^a   Schegg, Roland ^a   Murphy, Jamie ^b  

^a University of Applied Sciences Valais   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hospitality industry; Performance indicator; RevPAR; Time series analysis; Website adoption

Indexed keywords

HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY; INTERNET TECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE INDICATOR; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; REVENUE GROWTH; REVPAR; SALES PERFORMANCE; WEB PRESENCE;

BENCHMARKING; HOTELS; PORTALS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649876121     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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