Customer Perceived Value of Travel and Tourism Web Sites

International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS)

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-53

  Lexhagen, Maria ^a  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

consumer web site interaction; internet marketing; marketing; online behaviourz; service sindustry; value creation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001849089     PISSN: 19355688     EISSN: 19355696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jisss.2009010103     Document Type: Article

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