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JOURNAL OF VACATION MARKETING
Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages 172-188Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1356766715614344
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Chinese hotel guests; perception; international hotel chains; Chinese favoritism; hotel review Web sites
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- Hong Kong Polytechnic University [G-SB22]
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A qualitative approach was employed to examine how Chinese hotel guests perceive international chain hotels in different travel destinations (i.e. China and abroad) under the same brand. A total of 13,204 reviews were retrieved from online hotel review Web sites, namely DaoDao.com and Ctrip.com. Content analysis of the reviews showed discrepancies in the perceptions. Chinese favoritism toward the West affected the perception of hotel service quality. Empirical results revealed the belief that hotel services in Western cities and Hong Kong are better compared with those of hotels in China. However, the perception in terms of location, rooms and facilities, cleanliness, and value was mainly affected by the experience during the actual hotel stay. No noticeable influence of Chinese favoritism was found.
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