Factors Determining Hotel Selection: Online Behaviour by Leisure Travellers

Tourism and Hospitality Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-95

  Jones, Peter ^a   Chen, Meng Mei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

choice set; consideration set; Hotel selection; leisure travel

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651104427     PISSN: 14673584     EISSN: 17429692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/thr.2010.20     Document Type: Article

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