The decline of the traditional travel agent model

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 639-649

  Castillo Manzano, José I ^a   López Valpuesta, Lourdes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Airline ticket market; E Commerce; Low cost carriers; Multinomial logit model; Purchase channel; Travel agencies

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; SALES;

AGENT MODELING; AIRLINE SERVICES; AIRLINE TICKET MARKET; AIRLINE TICKETS; LOW-COST CARRIERS; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT MODEL; PURCHASE CHANNEL; SERVICE MARKETS; TRAVEL AGENCY; TRAVEL AGENTS;

AIR TRANSPORTATION;

AIRLINE INDUSTRY; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; LOGIT ANALYSIS; MARKET SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SERVICE SECTOR; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

SPAIN;

EID: 77952673978     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2009.12.009     Document Type: Article

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