In der vorliegenden Studie werden auf der Basis einer Befragung mit 1.158 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern die Travel Journeys von Digital Natives und Digital Immigrants verglichen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen unter anderem, dass die digitalen Touchpoints sowohl für die Digital Natives als auch für...

In der vorliegenden Studie werden auf der Basis einer Befragung mit 1.158 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern die Travel Journeys von Digital Natives und Digital Immigrants verglichen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen unter anderem, dass die digitalen Touchpoints sowohl für die Digital Natives als auch für...

Digitization in the tourism sector beside hospitality information systems application as its integral part has also led to the application of on-line booking systems, which enable the booking of the desired tourist arrangement via the Internet. Consequently, the emergence of the e-booking...

We investigate whether online travel agents (OTAs) assign hotels worse positions in their search results if these set lower hotel prices at other OTAs or on their own websites. We formally characterize how an OTA can use such a strategy to reduce price differentiation across distribution...

Digital platforms are not only match-making intermediaries but also establish internal rules that govern all users in their ecosystems. To better understand the governing role of platforms, we study two Airbnb pro-guest rules that pertain to guest and host cancellations, using data on Airbnb and...

E-tourism is essentially the digitalization of the whole touristic industry and infrastructure. Some of the advantages of e-tourism are the reduction of seasonality, the more successful communication with the customers and the raise in reservations and sales in general. The use of the Internet...

The dynamics of online searching and purchasing is becoming better known and understood as researchers study various products sold via the Web. Even though there is a prevalence of travel products purchased online, integrated frameworks that identify the various determinants of the decision...

In this study, we document and analyze price-offer curves (the dynamics of offered prices as the departure date approaches) for 105 specific round trip itineraries on 50 busy US routes. The data were collected from the three leading on-line travel agents' web-sites. We exploit across-route...

In this paper, we emphasize that choice sets generated by a search process have two properties: first, they are limited; second, they are endogenous to preferences. Both factors lead to biased estimates in a static demand framework that takes choice sets as given. To correct for this bias, we...