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Otel İşletmelerinin Çevrimiçi Tüketici Değerlendirmelerine Yanıt Verip Vermeme Durumlarının Değerlendirilmesi
Evaluating Hotels’ Managerial Responses to Online Reviews

Author(s): Murat Bayram
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Evaluation research, Tourism, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: İşletme Araştırmaları Dergisi
Keywords: Hotels; Social Media; Online Reviews; Managerial Responses;

Summary/Abstract: Online reviews impact consumers' purchasing decisions in the tourism sector as well as in many sectors. It is known that the responses to online reviews are as important as online reviews. For this reason, the main purpose of this study is to examine whether hotel business responds to online reviews. In accordance with this purpose 27,585 online reviews of 318 hotels in Istanbul and Antalya were analyzed by content analysis method. The results of the research shows that the majority of online reviews are not responded by hotels. In addition, the majority of responding comments consist of positive comments and there are also significant differences between responses to online reviews and type of the hotels.

  • Issue Year: 10/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 816-838
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Turkish