Online visibility as a source of competitive advantage for small- and medium-sized tourism accommodation enterprises

Service Industries Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1573-1587

  Smithson, Steve ^a   Devece, Carlos Alberto ^b   Lapiedra, Rafael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Accommodation enterprises; Competitive advantage; Internet; Online visibility

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INTERNET; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

SPAIN;

EID: 79957990124     PISSN: 02642069     EISSN: 17439507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02642069.2010.485640     Document Type: Article

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