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Hotel
Reviews: Introducing the Guest Review
Rankings Report
May 8, 2012 - The
hotel industry is currently obsessed with social media. It is
particularly obsessed with guest
reviews on sites like TripAdvisor and the major Online Travel Agency
(OTA)
sites. Review scores and volumes affect
a hotel’s business, and – increasingly – executive compensation, as
more and
more hotel companies link general managers’ bonuses to their hotels’
performance on review sites. This week Hotel
Compete is proud to launch the Guest
Review Rankings Report. This brand new resource provides
hotels,
analysts and other interested parties a brand new perspective on review
scores
across major lodging markets. The Untapped Opportunity of
the Wisdom of Crowds Hotels’ social media capabilities have progressed considerably over the last couple of years, with Reputation Management the main focus of an increasing level of activity. But despite the great strides that hotels have made in interacting with reviews, the industry is still missing an analytical opportunity. Industry
wisdom has it that hotel review scores are unreliable, because
reviewers tend
to post reviews when they are either very happy or very unhappy with
their
experience in a hotel. But the data does
not support that preconception. In fact, research
shows that similar hotels
in the same market tend to attract similar and consistent scores.
Hence, over or under-performance relative to
the average can have a significant impact on performance. If analysts
can
understand what constitutes average performance, and how hotels compare
to that
average, it can help to predict future hotel performance. How to Keep Track of Hotel
Review Performance The challenge both for individual hotels and hotel analysts is that no good baseline exists for comparing hotel reviews across multiple sites. Different review sites use different scales, and gather responses and compile scores in different ways. To compare scores across sites is to compare apples with oranges, so market-level analysis tends to focus on individual review sites. Multi-site comparison can be done using one of the many analysis tools currently available, but it’s up to the hotel to select its own comp set. And anyone who reads this site knows our views on the shortcomings of hotel comp set selection. It’s time for an objective way to compare hotel review performance on an “Apples-to-Apples” basis. Hotel Compete’s Guest Review Rankings Report has been designed to solve exactly this problem. This bi-weekly report – which is based on the top 25 US hotel markets – provides regularly updated Guest Review Rating scores for every single hotel in each market. Hotel
review scores are a great predictor of hotel performance, provided you
understand them. The scores in this
report are represented on a 1-10 scale, making it easy to compare
properties in
the same hotel
class, as well as overall market
rankings. Please visit the Hotel
Compete Guest Review
Rankings Report to learn more. In 2009 Hotel Compete was founded by
a group of hoteliers and hotel data experts, who share a passion for
the hospitality industry.
We developed a brand new source of high value business intelligence for the lodging industry, providing access to data and analytics that provide deep insights into local hotel market dynamics. We are able to deliver fresh market insights to our customers because we take a different perspective from more traditional industry data sources Hotel Compete provides high-value business intelligence that sees the lodging industry from a different perspective than traditional performance data sources. Our unique processes develop a "booker's eye view" |
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