The individual monetary valuation of online hotel ratings

Christos Evangelinos, Andy Obermeyer and Aaron Bartel

No 3/2020, IU Discussion Papers - Hospitality, Tourism & Event from IU International University of Applied Sciences

Abstract: We test the impact of online hotel ratings on the customers' hotel choice using a binary choice experiment where the online rating score is one of the hotels' attributes. Results show that online rating scores have a positive and significant impact on hotel choice. We also calculate the individual willingness to pay for higher rating scores and report the corresponding income and age elasticities.

Keywords: Hotel rating; online review; discrete choice model; logit model; monetary valuation; eWOM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 D12 L8 Z31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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