Travel planning: Searching for and booking hotels on the internet

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 388-398

  Toh, Rex S ^a   DeKay, Charles F ^a   Raven, Peter ^a  

^a SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

consumer behavior; hotel management; tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053980134     PISSN: 19389655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1938965511418779     Document Type: Article

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