New business models in online hotel distribution: Emerging private sales versus leading IDS

Service Business

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 183-205

  Runfola, Andrea ^a   Rosati, Massimo ^b   Guercini, Simone ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Business model; Hotel; Internet; Revenue model; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882928443     PISSN: 18628516     EISSN: 18628508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-012-0150-1     Document Type: Article

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