Confused by too many choices? Choice overload in tourism

Tourism Management

Volumn 35, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-12

  Park, Jeong Yeol ^a   Jang, SooCheong Shawn ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice overload; Familiarity; No choice; Tourism products; Tourist behavior

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; TOURISM; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EID: 84869870292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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