Online travel surveys and response patterns

Journal of Travel Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 121-135

  Pan, Bing ^a  

^a Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

Author keywords

Exponential growth model; Internet survey; Online travel survey; Response time; Web survey

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; MODELING; SURVEY; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 73649102101     PISSN: 00472875     EISSN: 15526763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0047287509336467     Document Type: Article

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