Evaluating and ranking hotels offering e-service by integrated approach of webqual and fuzzy AHP

International Journal of Business Information Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 84-104

  Shahin, Arash ^a   Pool, Javad Khazaei ^a   Poormostafa, Mehdi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

E service quality; Fuzzy ahp; Hotel; Information; Isfahan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889655559     PISSN: 17460972     EISSN: 17460980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2014.057966     Document Type: Article

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