Destination familiarity is an important non-economic determinant of tourists' destination choice that has not been adequately studied. This study posits a literary dimension to the concept familiarity—that is, extent which tourists have gained with given through literature—and seeks investigate impact this form on inbound tourism Mainland China. Employing English fiction dataset Google Books co...

Several authors have argued that because modern computing and communications technologies reduce buyer search costs and other market inefficiencies, there should be intense price competition between sellers in electronic markets. This paper examines this prediction using data on the airline ticket offerings of online travel agents (OTA). We find that different OTAs offer tickets with substantia...

legal actions remains sufficiently predictable. Such predictions on legal conflicts have to be shared among economic actors to stabilize mutual expectations of behavior. This stability then helps to reduce legal risks. Predictability is not necessarily related to precise legal knowledge. It is sufficient to know when legal specialists have to get involved. Economic actors prepare for such situa...

Entrepreneurs in electronic markets move in industries where a strong corporate brand can deliver competitive advantage through differentiation. It not only facilitates increased attention. Despite ever-increasing followers and me-too products, it enables a company to build a positive image on behalf of the relevant target groups – be they consumers/customers, shareholders, employees, or indust...

Enterprises face stiff competition and the pressure to improve efficiency and productivity. Since the cost of production could be reduced in the last years, further reductions can be obtained e.g. by spreading production processes over organizational boundaries to use the key competencies of the involved organizations. This shift increases the number of external links and transactions of enterp...

Newcomers to electronic markets are forced to accumulate customers as rapidly as possible. One strategy to fulfil this aim is so called viral marketing, which seems an appropriate term for describing the pattern in which Internet companies spread by making use of customer referrals. The aim of this article is to describe and explain common features of viral marketing strategies and to outline c...

Electronic markets are not just evolving they are designed. As such providing electronic trading venues is an entrepreneurial activity. The institutional approach followed here introduces a market operator as an economic player. As the entrepreneur charges fees for his service of operating an electronic market, the transaction cost savings incurred by information technology are essentially full...

Literature on the impacts of COVID 19 reveals thathow effects pandemic may be experienced at destinations in different stages their development has not been studied. This paper discusses impact a break tourism visitation to caused by and uses Tourism Area Life Cycle model as framework from which argue that scale importance will vary depending stage cycle reached any specific destination. Such r...

OBJECTIVE To carry out a spatial analysis of the occurrence of acts of violence (specifically robberies) in public transportation, identifying the regions of greater incidence, using geostatistics, and possible causes with the aid of a multicriteria analysis in the Geographic Information System. METHODS The unit of analysis is the traffic analysis zone of the survey named Origem-Destino, carr...

In 2001, El-Monsef and Nasef have introduced γ-continuous multifunctions and in 2004, Park, Lee and Son have studied δ-precontinuous multifunctions. The purpose of this paper is to generalize some types of continuous multifunctions. In this paper, the notion of almost δ-precontinuous multifunctions is studied. Basic properties, characterizations and relationships of almost δ-precontinuous multi...