| 英文摘要 |
As the development of Internet, passengers begin to purchase merchandises on travel website. Although researchers have explored this issue from different theories, little is about how travel agents should design their websites from the product assortment perspective. The purpose of this study is to understand passengers’purchase experience for travel website assortment. Three experimental studies were used to investigate the effect of product assortment on the purchase experience (Study 1), and the moderating roles of consumer knowledge (Study 2) and time pressure (Study 3). According to the research results in Study 1, complementary-based assortment is more attractiveness to passengers while they make an arduous effort to realize the content of product information. In Study 2, the results show that substitute-based assortment is perceived as more attractive to experts. But the complementary-based assortment is more appealing to novices. Moreover, experts have a lower perceived effort for substitute-based assortment while novices feel easier to understand complementary-based assortment information. The results of Study 3 indicate that substitute-based assortment is perceived as more attractiveness and less effort to passengers in high time pressure situation. Furthermore, passengers have a higher perceived attractiveness for complementary-based assortment in low time pressure situation. However, considering passengers’perceived effort, there is no significant different between the two assortment types in low time pressure situation. Our findings can provide managerial implications for travel website, and future research opportunities for researchers |