An empirical study on the user acceptance of hotel information systems

Tourism

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 115-133

  Varol, Ergin Sait ^a   Tarcan, Ertugrul ^b  

^a Vocational School of Technical Sciences   (Turkey)

^b Alanya Faculty of Business University in Turkey   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hotel information systems (hiss); Information technology acceptance; Organizational innovativeness; Personal innovativeness; Technology acceptance model (tam); Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449437175     PISSN: 13327461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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