“…Previous studies focused on qualitative management strategies regarding eWOM (Litvin, Goldsmith and Pan, 2007); the utilization of online platforms for a positive electronic word-of-mouth (Kim and Hardin, 2010), and the impact of electronic word-of-mouth on booking intentions (Kim, Mattila and Baloglu, 2011;Vermeulen and Seegers, 2009). Several scholars have suggested that for online consumers eWOM is a main resource of good information since it distributes recent, abundant, and objective good information (Cheung, et al, 2009;Dellarocas, 2003;Kim and Gupta, 2009;Zacharia, Moukas and Maes, 2000). As an example, a survey revealed that 84 per cent of Americans' decision to purchase a product or service was affected by online reviews (Promomagazine, 2009).…”