Analysis and evaluation of tourism e-commerce websites in China

International Journal of Services, Economics and Management

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 6-23

  Lu, Yaobin ^a   Deng, Zhaohua ^a   Wang, Bin ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

analytical hierarchy process; fuzzy synthetic evaluation; index system; tourism electronic commerce; website evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149161461     PISSN: 17530822     EISSN: 17530830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSEM.2007.016523     Document Type: Article

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