Hotel Online Booking Decisions Based on Price Complexity, Alternative Attractiveness, and Confusion
Year: 2019
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The goal of this research is to investigate customer confusion and its antecedents, specifically price complexity and alternative attractiveness, and to validate a link between confusion and postponing decisions about booking a hotel online. Price complexity and alternative attractiveness cause three types of confusion: overload confusion, similarity confusion, and ambiguity confusion. Moreover, these three types of confusion cause customers to defer purchase decisions. An online survey was used to collect data from customers who booked hotels online during the past six months in both the United States and Canada.
Author: Pengsongze Xue
Language: English
Subfield: General Decision Sciences
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2967186498