Can setting hotel rate restrictions help balance the interest of hotels and customers?

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 948-973

  Guillet, Basak Denizci ^a   Liu, Wei ^b   Law, Rob ^a  

^a THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Customer behavior; Hotels; Rates restrictions; Revenue management; Room rates; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926351272     PISSN: 09596119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJCHM-01-2013-0020     Document Type: Article

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