The relative use of contextual and temporal reference price components in hotel and airline purchases

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 119-141

  Karande, Kiran ^a   Magnini, Vincent P ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PAMPLIN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS   (United States)

Author keywords

airline pricing; contextual prices; hotel pricing; reference prices; revenue management; temporal prices

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953128898     PISSN: 10963480     EISSN: 15577554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1096348010384477     Document Type: Article

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