Quality of hotels websites - Proposal for the development of an assessment methodology

Tourismos

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 173-178

  Rocha, Álvaro ^a   Victor, José Avelino ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FERNANDO PESSOA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF MAIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Content quality; E Tourism; Software quality; Technical quality; Websites

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953234653     PISSN: 17908418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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