A cross-cultural comparison of online travel information search behaviors

Tourism Management Perspectives

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 15-22

  Jordan, Evan J ^a   Norman, William C ^b   Vogt, Christine A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information foraging; Internet; Travel planning; Uncertainty avoidance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871659461     PISSN: 22119736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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