Recent years have seen an enormous increase in the role of information technology in markets. During the past few years, economists, game theorists, and computer scientists have started to take a direct role by designing various kinds of market mechanisms for electronic markets in various industries. What is so special about "electronic" market design is the fact that a designer has many more possibilities in designing a mechanism than one would have for physical markets. Multi-attribute

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... auctions are such a new market mechanism, which would hardly be feasible without the use of information technology. In this paper we describe a first application of a multi-attribute auction market in the tourism industry.