Web users' behavioural patterns of tourism information search: From online to offline

Tourism Management

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1468-1482

  Ho, Chaang Iuan ^a   Lin, Meng Hui ^a   Chen, Hui Mei ^b  

^a CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Behavioural tourism information search model; Online tourism information search; Tourism information search

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA SET; INTERNET; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOURISM; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84863217820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2012.01.016     Document Type: Article

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