Title :
The Development of Travel Intermediaries in E-Commerce
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Manage. & Eng., Shanghai Univ. of Finance & Econ., Shanghai
Abstract :
Tourism industry, with the characteristics of not involving in logistics and production, well accommodates itself to the application of e-commerce in such an area. The paper focuses on the study of classification, function and effect of travel intermediaries, analyzing the internal and external application as well as representation of e-commerce for travel intermediaries in e-commerce environment, and further research is made on such basis for the future development trend of travel intermediaries.
Keywords :
electronic commerce; travel industry; e-commerce; tourism industry; travel intermediary; Air transportation; Business communication; Environmental economics; Finance; Information management; Marketing and sales; Packaging; Power generation economics; Road transportation; Travel services;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dalian
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2107-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2108-4
DOI :
10.1109/WiCom.2008.2201
