THE ROLES OF TRAVEL REVIEWS TOWARDS HOTEL GUEST LOYALTY
Keywords:
Customers Travel Reviews, Guest Loyalty, Hotel ServicesAbstract
Travel reviews are developing as a dominant source of information affecting hotel guest loyalty. Customers are often expressing their experience and feelings in the form of online consumer reviews and views on hotels, travel destination and travel services. The willingness to share customer’s reviews on the website has highlighted the need for a greater understanding of the relationship travel reviews towards hotel guest loyalty. Thus, this paper is aiming to reveal the effects of travel reviews on hotel guest loyalty. This study will increase the knowledge of the customers to understand how they could indicate and assess a hotel room during an online hotel reservation. The results further will recommend that travel reviews play an important part in the trip planning process.