Barriers to online booking of scheduled airline tickets

Handbook of Consumer Behavior, Tourism, and the Internet

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 27-39

  Klein, Stefan ^a   Köhne, Frank ^b   Öörni, Anssi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acceptance of online booking; Consumer search; Electronic commerce; Price dispersion; Tourism; Uncertainty; Usability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85099663118     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1300/J073v17n02_03     Document Type: Chapter

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