From e-business to c-commerce: Collaboration and network creation for an e-marketing tourism strategy

Tourismos

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 113-128

  Kavoura, Androniki ^a   Katsoni, Vicky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

C commerce; Communication and social media; Networks; Private public sector collaboration; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891645385     PISSN: 17908418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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