Travel queries on cities in the United States: Implications for search engine marketing for tourist destinations

Tourism Management

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 88-97

  Xiang, Zheng ^a   Pan, Bing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Destination marketing; Internet; Search engine marketing; Search engines; Travel information search; Travel queries

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION; URBAN AREA;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649863925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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