How information foraging styles relate to tourism demographics and behaviours

Journal of Vacation Marketing

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 299-309

  Murphy, Jamie ^a   Olaru, Doina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Information foraging; Information search; Internet; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449106723     PISSN: 13567667     EISSN: 14791870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356766709335692     Document Type: Article

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