{"id":3290,"date":"2019-10-03T07:47:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T07:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2019-10-03T07:47:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T07:47:27","slug":"new-article-anagnostopoulou-s-buhalis-d-kountouri-i-manousakis-e-and-tsekrekos-a-2019-the-impact-of-online-reputation-on-hotel-profitability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/2019\/10\/03\/new-article-anagnostopoulou-s-buhalis-d-kountouri-i-manousakis-e-and-tsekrekos-a-2019-the-impact-of-online-reputation-on-hotel-profitability\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW ARTICLE\u00a0Anagnostopoulou, S.,\u00a0Buhalis, D.,\u00a0Kountouri, I.,\u00a0Manousakis, E.\u00a0and\u00a0Tsekrekos, A.\u00a0(2019), “The impact of online reputation on hotel profitability”,\u00a0International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management,\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/IJCHM-03-2019-0247"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anagnostopoulou, S.<\/a>,\u00a0Buhalis, D.<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Kountouri, I.<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Manousakis, E.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Tsekrekos, A.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(2019), “<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The impact of online reputation on hotel profitability”,\u00a0International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management<\/i><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/IJCHM-03-2019-0247<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Purpose<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The purpose of this study is to quantify the impact of online customer reputation on financial profitability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Online reputation is captured by extracting the most recurring textual themes associated with customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction, expressed within positive vs negative online guest reviews on Booking.com. Latent semantic analysis is used for textual analysis. Proxies of overall financial performance are manually constructed for the sample hotels, using financial data from the Financial Analysis Made Easy (FAME) database. Ordinary least squares is used to gauge the effect of online customer reputation on financial profitability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Empirical findings indicate that recurring textual themes from positive online reviews (in contrast to negative reviews) exhibit a higher degree of homogeneity and consensus. The themes repeated in\u00a0positive<\/i>, but not in\u00a0negativ<\/i>e reviews, are found to significantly associate with hotel financial performance. Results contribute to the discussion about the measurable effect of online reputation on financial performance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Contemporary quantitative methods are used to extract online reputation for a sample of UK hotels and associate this reputation with bottom-line financial profitability. The relationship between online reputation, as manifested within hotel guest reviews, and the financial performance of hotels is examined. Financial profitability is the result of revenues, reduced by the costs incurred in order to be able to offer a given level of service. Previous studies have mainly focused on basic measures of performance, i.e. revenue generation, rather than bottom-line profitability. By combining online guest reviews from travel websites (Booking.com) with financial measures of enterprise performance (FAME), this study makes a meaningful contribution to the strategic management of hotel businesses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Quantitative content analysis<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Online hotel reviews<\/span><\/a>\u00a0EWOM<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Hotel reputation<\/span><\/a>Latent semantic analysis<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Hotel performance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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NEW ARTICLE Anagnostopoulou, S.,\u00a0Buhalis, D.,\u00a0Kountouri, I.,\u00a0Manousakis, E.\u00a0and\u00a0Tsekrekos, A.\u00a0(2019), “ The impact of online reputation on hotel profitability”,\u00a0International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management,\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/IJCHM-03-2019-0247 Abstract Purpose The purpose of this study is… Read more » about NEW ARTICLE\u00a0Anagnostopoulou, S.,\u00a0Buhalis, D.,\u00a0Kountouri, I.,\u00a0Manousakis, E.\u00a0and\u00a0Tsekrekos, A.\u00a0(2019), “The impact of online reputation on hotel profitability”,\u00a0International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management,\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/IJCHM-03-2019-0247<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3291,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions\/3291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}