There is a growing interest in deriving value from user-generated comments and reviews online. For businesses and consumers using online platforms, the reviews serve as quality …
D Wang, JL Nicolau - International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2017 - Elsevier
The advent of the “sharing economy” challenges not only the business of hotel industry but also the theories and models based on the conventional hotel industry. A key dimension of …
This paper examines the impact of a variety of variables on the rates published for Airbnb listings in five large metropolitan areas in Canada. The researchers applied a hedonic …
Y Chen, K Xie - International journal of contemporary hospitality …, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to identify a wide array of utility-based attributes of Airbnb listings and measures the effects of these attributes on consumers' valuation of Airbnb listings …
X Xu, X Wang, Y Li, M Haghighi - International Journal of information …, 2017 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of information technology, customers not only shop online—they also post reviews on social media. This user-generated content (UGC) can be useful to …
H Öğüt, BK Onur Taş - The Service Industries Journal, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, the impact of two service quality metrics (star rating and customer rating) on hotel room sales and prices is investigated. Two of the most popular tourist destinations in …
Dynamic pricing techniques allow using a number of variables in a tactical way compared to standard catalogue prices. This study merges in a conceptual model the relevance of the …
G Candela, P Figini, G Candela, P Figini - 2012 - Springer
The tourism destination, intended as the location of tourism structures and services as well as the place where travelers' needs are fulfilled, is the core of the tourism system. Usually, a …
We study the effects of vertical and horizontal differentiation on pricing policy in a large sample of hotels in Spain. We show that hotels with more stars (ie, vertically differentiated) …