Price bundling and travel product pricing practices used by online channels of distribution

Journal of Travel Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 403-412

  Kim, Jinhoo ^a   Bojanic, David C ^b   Warnick, Rodney B ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Hotel class; Individual service providers; Online travel agents; Price bundling; Tourism

Indexed keywords

PRICE DETERMINATION; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84988354696     PISSN: 00472875     EISSN: 15526763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0047287508328658     Document Type: Article

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