An impact of social media on online travel information search in China

Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering, ICIII 2010

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 509-512

  Chai, Haiyan ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Baidu; Consumer generated content; Search engine; Social media websites

Indexed keywords

BAIDU; CONSUMER-GENERATED CONTENT; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; INFORMATION SOURCES; POPULATION SIZES; SEARCH RESULTS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TRAVEL INFORMATION; TRIP PLANNING;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INNOVATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 79951733140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIII.2010.443     Document Type: Conference Paper

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