Successfully selling accommodation packages at online auctions - The case of eBay Austria

Tourism Management

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1166-1175

  Fuchs, Matthias ^a   Eybl, Alexander ^b   Höpken, Wolfram ^b  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Tourism Competence Center Austria   (Austria)

Author keywords

Accommodation packages; EBay; Online auctions; Price determinants; SEM

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MODELING; PRICE DYNAMICS;

EID: 79955483928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2010.10.007     Document Type: Article

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