An Initial Investigation of Integrating Innovation Diffusion Models for Drawing First‐time VisitorsFootnote

The authors would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers for offering constructive comments about an early version of this paper. This research was partly supported by a research funded by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

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