Research on Status Quo and Prospects of Online Travel Information Search

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As an emerging research issue of the tourism and electronic commerce, tourism information searching has become the focus of scholars. The foreign scholars have achieved fruitful results since 1990s, while studies on this field are more actively at home these years. The current study aims at helping the researchers better by comprehending the existing finds and recently perspective, we summarized and categorized the findings of research in recent years, and expect to present an overall and timely analysis.

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