Reliability of authenticated versus non-authenticated hotel reviews: TripAdvisor and Booking.com case

This study analyzes the Electronic Word Of Mouth (eWOM) in the tourism sector through TripAdvisor and Booking.com. The aim is to check whether the criticism about the lack of veracity of TripAdvisor reviews are grounded by comparing the rankings of the five Spanish cities hotels with Booking.com. Th...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Balagué, Cristina, Martín Fuentes, Eva, Gómez Adillón, Ma. Jesús
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10459.1/65397
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/65397
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Electronic Word of Mouth
TripAdvisor
Booking.com
Ranking
Descrição
Resumo:This study analyzes the Electronic Word Of Mouth (eWOM) in the tourism sector through TripAdvisor and Booking.com. The aim is to check whether the criticism about the lack of veracity of TripAdvisor reviews are grounded by comparing the rankings of the five Spanish cities hotels with Booking.com. The results show that there is a correlation between the two rankings, indicating that falsification and manipulation of TripAdvisor reviews is not characteristic, as well as the higher category hotel the better position in the ranking and, the quantity of reviews affects the position in the ranking.