Online Travel Reviews;

With the aim of enhancing their online reputation, several hospitality businesses have started soliciting their guests to write online reviews. Available studies have not yet evaluated the effects of this strategy. To fill this knowledge gap, this study draws on the Theory of Psychological Reactance and investigates guests' attitudinal and behavioral reactions to received solicitations. Evidence collected from a sample of Italian travelers indicates that soliciting reviews has both benefits and drawbacks: it increases the number of reviews for the business, but it also irritates a significant share of guests. Particularly high levels of irritation arise when a business explicitly asks its guests to write positive reviews. The implications of these findings for the reputation management strategy of hospitality businesses are discussed.

A análise da qualidade dos serviços vem sendo objeto de estudo de diversas investigações no âmbito da hotelaria. A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar a qualidade dos serviços prestados pelos hotéis de Florianópolis (SC) por meio dos critérios de avaliação da empresa Booking.com. O estudo caracteriza-se por ser descritivo, com abordagem quantitativa, realizado por meio da coleta de On-line Travel Reviews (OTRs) postadas no site www.booking. com relacionadas a 37.875 avaliações de turistas de 103 hotéis localizados em Florianópolis (SC). Os critérios avaliados foram funcionários, conforto, limpeza, custo-benefício, localização, comodidades e Wi-Fi gratuito. Utilizou-se de alguns testes estatísticos para atingir o objetivo proposto, tais como análise descritiva, análise discriminante, análise de regressão e análise de cluster. Os resultados alcançados demonstram que os critérios relacionados ao conforto e às comodidades influenciam na avaliação dos demais critérios, bem como na avaliação da satisfação geral realizada pelos turistas.

Increasing reliance of potential guests on online hotel reviews has given rise to trepidation among some hospitality managers recently, thus necessitating a better understanding of its adoption.  In view of the limited generalizability and applicability of extant cross-cultural studies to this context, this study generates cross-national insights into the antecedents of travelers’ intention to use online hotel reviews to better understand the use of consumer-generated reviews across cultures. Generally, the predictive power of the model derived from the Motivation Theory and TAM holds true for both the United States and Singapore. Nonetheless, tests for structural invariance reveals some noteworthy differences between the two countries. The results highlight the complex cognitive mechanisms determining the acceptance of online hotel reviews in each country as moderated by national culture orientations. Findings hold implications for practitioners and researchers as they navigate through social media in different cultural contexts.

Cada vez mais os consumidores estão lendo e compartilhando comentários relacionados a viagem na Internet que são publicados por viajantes ao invés de consultarem informações geradas pelos próprios prestadores de serviços turísticos. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar os fatores que influenciam a intenção de uso de Comentários de Viagens Online (CVO) na escolha de um meio de hospedagem. Para compreender quais são esses fatores influenciadores relacionados ao CVO no contexto brasileiro, o presente trabalho utiliza o Modelo de Aceitação Tecnológica e a Teoria Motivacional para dar o suporte na investigação. A metodologia sugerida foi a de cunho exploratório-descritivo, com abordagem quantitativa. A coleta de dados foi realizada com 53 estudantes universitários que já utilizaram o CVO na escolha de um meio de hospedagem. O estudo fez uso da técnica de Modelagem de Equações Estruturais Partial Least Squares (PLS), para testar o modelo proposto de oito hipóteses. Para avaliar as cinco variáveis do modelo de pesquisa (facilidade de uso, utilidade percebida, prazer percebido, atitude, e intenção), o PLS avaliou o modelo de mensuração e estrutural da pesquisa. Ao todo, cinco hipóteses foram confirmadas, e três foram rejeitadas. O que pode se concluir pelas hipóteses aceitas é que os viajantes entrevistados que acham útil o CVO, tem atitude e intenção de utilizá-lo na escolha de um meio de hospedagem.

The aim of this research is to study the behavior of the guests who booked hotels in Bogotá - Colombia whose largest market segment belongs to the Business Industry. Evaluating the online reputation on 3 OTA (Online Travel Agencies) and on TripAdvisor, along with the availability of rooms. It was analyzed day by day to see if the hotels with better online reputation ended their availability first than the ones that did not have better reviews.
The study was conducted from January 26th to February 26th, 2016 to 10 hotels located in Bogota who belong to the Hotel Chain GHL through the official website and 3 OTA. It was found that the most demanded hotels are those located in the area determined by COTELCO (The Colombian Hotel and Tourism Association) as Calle 93 - Calle 100 which is characterized by having a wide gastronomic and recreational offer that allows guests to experience Bleasure, which means the combination of businesses and leasure.
Key words: Leasure, Tourism, Hotel, Bogota, Online Reputation, Bleasure.

From the improvement of Web 2.0, users become empowered and motivated to share comments about experiences related to products and services. User-Generated Content (UGC) represents a major source of travel information, helping tourist to make a decision. On the other hand, the phenomenon of the popularity of mobile devices has also a significant effect on travel and tourism. Considering this panorama, the paper’s purpose is to understand how travellers use Online Travel Reviews (OTR) on mobile apps for planning trips, based on Uses and Gratifications perspectives. In the survey, a matching quiz was applied to 85 tourists during the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Sao Paulo city were examined. The study results provide empirical support for the proposed research model, suggesting that content gratifications and process gratifications influences attitude to use OTR.
Keywords: Online Travel Reviews; Mobile applications; Uses and Gratifications Theory; Travel plans.