Mere Position Effect in Booking Hotels Online

Journal of Travel Research

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 311-321

  Ert, Eyal ^a   Fleischer, Aliza ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

decision making; hotel choice; online booking; primacy recency effect

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; TOURIST DESTINATION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84957808620     PISSN: 00472875     EISSN: 15526763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0047287514559035     Document Type: Article

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