Price transparency of bundled vacation packages

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 213-234

  Tanford, Sarah ^a   Erdem, Mehmet ^a   Baloglu, Seyhmus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bundling; Information transparency; Online travel purchase; Pricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953721988     PISSN: 10963480     EISSN: 15577554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1096348010382234     Document Type: Article

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