Reviews and price on online platforms: Evidence from sentiment analysis of Airbnb reviews in Boston

A Lawani, MR Reed, T Mark, Y Zheng - Regional Science and Urban …, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Revenue management and price optimization techniques in the hotel sector: A critical literature review

A Vives, M Jacob, M Payeras - Tourism economics, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Pricing and revenue management (RM) techniques have become a popular field of research
in hotel management literature. The sector's background framework and evolution and the …

Personal or product reputation? Optimizing revenues in the sharing economy

G Abrate, G Viglia - Journal of travel research, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The emergence of peer-to-peer platforms, known as the sharing economy, has empowered
people to market their own products and services. However, there are information …

Are guests of the same opinion as the hotel star-rate classification system?

E Martin-Fuentes - Journal of hospitality and tourism management, 2016 - Elsevier
Hotel classification systems have been questioned on some occasions due to the loss of
credibility of stars as a quality standard and because they are sometimes subject to outdated …

Why are flexible booking policies priced negatively?

B Benitez-Aurioles - Tourism Management, 2018 - Elsevier
This work suggests a new direction to look at when explaining seemingly counterintuitive
findings. Using data from 497,509 Airbnb listings in 44 cities of the world, we confirm a …

Modelling a grading scheme for peer-to-peer accommodation: Stars for Airbnb

E Martin-Fuentes, C Fernandez, C Mateu… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study aims, firstly, to determine whether hotel categories worldwide can be inferred from
features that are not taken into account by the institutions in charge of assigning such …

Accommodation prices on Airbnb: effects of host experience and market demand

F Magno, F Cassia, MM Ugolini - The TQM Journal, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose Accommodation sharing is a major trend shaping the hospitality industry, and
Airbnb is the most prominent sharing platform driving this growth. While price convenience is …

Inconsistent behavior in online consumer reviews: The effects of hotel attribute ratings on location

JP Mellinas, JL Nicolau, S Park - Tourism Management, 2019 - Elsevier
The purpose of this article is to analyze the effects of hotel attribute ratings on location. This
analysis is highly pertinent given the prevailing use of reviews and their potential …

The dimensions of hotel customer ratings that boost RevPAR

M Nieto-Garcia, G Resce, A Ishizaka… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Online ratings provide valuable information to operators. However, the use of this
information for revenue maximization purposes remains at a moot point. This article …

Effects of faith-based attributes on hotel prices: the case of halal services

A Papastathopoulos, C Koritos… - International Journal of …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose For more than 40 years, researchers have examined an exhaustive set of attributes
as price determinants in tourism and hospitality. In extending this rich research stream, this …