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Online Pricing Practice For Hotel Room Rates In China: The Case Of Shanghai, Rob Law, Dave Man
Online Pricing Practice For Hotel Room Rates In China: The Case Of Shanghai, Rob Law, Dave Man
Hospitality Review
Travel websites that enable hotel room reservations have created unprecedented business opportunities. However, they have also overloaded hotel customers with information. This situation is particularly true of China, an emerging country with the largest population in the world and the most promising growth prospect in tourism. This study investigated the room-rate pricing practice of five online distribution channels, measured by the lowest available rates. These online channels priced hotels of different categories in Shanghai, China’s largest city. Empirical findings indicated that local websites offered lower room rates than international websites for the selected hotels in different categories. Specifically, Chinatravel consistently …
A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach To Compare And Contrast The Websites Of China-Based And U.S-Based Hotels, Rob Law, Kathy Liang
A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach To Compare And Contrast The Websites Of China-Based And U.S-Based Hotels, Rob Law, Kathy Liang
Hospitality Review
The improvement in living standards and the development of telecommunications have led to a large increase in the number of Internet users in China. It has been reported by China National Network Information Center that the number of Internet users in China has reached 33.7 million in 2001, ranting the country third in the world. This figure also shows that more and more Chinese residents have accepted the Internet and use it to obtain information and compete their travel planning. Milne and Ateljevic stated that the integration of computing and telecommunications would create a global information network based mostly on …