Selling rooms: Hotels vs. third-party websites

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 181-189

  Toh, Rex S ^a   Raven, Peter ^a   DeKay, Frederick ^a  

^a SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

distribution channels; online travel agents; room rates; selling hotel rooms; third party websites

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955106310     PISSN: 19389655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1938965511400409     Document Type: Article

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