How do travelers find their travel and hotel websites?

Chun Hung Roberts Law, Truman Huang

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24 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

In recent years, hospitality and tourism researchers have presented their findings of many studies on website performance and evaluations. Although these prior studies have achieved a certain degree of success for assisting industrial practitioners to develop and maintain their websites, it remains largely unknown how consumers find a specific travel or hotel website. This paper reports a study that investigated the perceived importance of different channels for finding travel or hotel websites from an international travelers' perspective. Empirical results from 153 travel or hotel website users indicated that the Google search engine was the only channel that was perceived as important, and 47.4% of the respondents viewed up to three screens in the list of search results when using search engines. The paper should be of interest to industrial practitioners and academic researchers to understand better the behavior of users of travel and hotel websites during their website search procedure.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)239-246
Number of pages8
JournalAsia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research
Volume11
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2006

Keywords

  • Optimization
  • Search engines
  • Travel websites
  • Websites

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

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