Dual-route communication of destination websites

Tourism Management

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 38-49

  Tang, Liang Rebecca ^a   Jang, Soocheong Shawn ^b   Morrison, Alastair ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude; Cognition; Destination website; Elaboration likelihood model (ELM); Travel intention

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; TESTING METHOD; TOURIST DESTINATION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 80052451421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2011.01.021     Document Type: Article

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