Role of the demographic factors in the process of hotel information systems adoption

Tourism

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 127-144

  Tarcan, Ertugrul ^a   Varol, Ergin Sait ^b  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Demographic factors; Hotel information systems; Information technology acceptance; Technology acceptance model; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956699115     PISSN: 13327461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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