Academic papers: An evaluation of hotel website attribute utilization and effectiveness by hotel class

Journal of Vacation Marketing

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 203-215

  Musante, Michael D ^a   Bojanic, David C ^b   Zhang, Jian ^c  

^a QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospitality websites; Hotel websites; Website evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249182256     PISSN: 13567667     EISSN: 14791870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356766709104267     Document Type: Article

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