Luxury without guilt: Service innovation in the all-inclusive hotel industry

Service Business

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 359-372

  Rayna, Thierry ^a   Striukova, Ludmila ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

All inclusive; Business model; Hotels; Non technological innovation; Services

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350741532     PISSN: 18628516     EISSN: 18628508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-009-0072-8     Document Type: Article

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