Trade show websites: An examination of critical websites' quality factors and content items

Journal of Convention and Event Tourism

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-59

  Lee, Jumyong ^a   Love, Curtis ^b   Han, Taedong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convention and exhibition; Information quality; Relationship quality; Service quality; System quality; Trade show; Trade show website; Website quality; Website success

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650000486     PISSN: 15470148     EISSN: 15470156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15470140802104565     Document Type: Article

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