Beyond recommendations: Local review web sites and their impact

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Brown, Barry ^a  

^a Mobile Life Research Centre   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Choice; Local experts; Recommendations; Reviews; Tourism; TripAdvisor; Yelp

Indexed keywords

CHOICE; LOCAL EXPERTS; RECOMMENDATIONS; TOURISM; TRIPADVISOR; YELP;

REVIEWS; SALES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84872418699     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2395131.2395134     Document Type: Review

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