The peculiar impact of higher room rates on customers' propensity to book

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-55

  Schwartz, Zvi ^a   Chen, Chihchien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer behaviour; Hotels; Prices

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551605792     PISSN: 09596119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09596111011013462     Document Type: Article

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