Personal profile information as cues of credibility in online travel reviews

Anatolia

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 13-23

  Park, Heelye ^a   Xiang, Zheng ^b   Josiam, Bharath ^a   Kim, Haejung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

credibility; personal profile information; social media; travel planning; travel review

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; INFORMATION; INTERNET; TOURISM;

EID: 84896113349     PISSN: 13032917     EISSN: 21566909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13032917.2013.820203     Document Type: Article

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