The End of Tourist Traps: A Natural Experiment on the Impact of Tripadvisor on Quality Upgrading

Donati, Dante

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4163323

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“…In a focused and potentially widely applicable case study, Donati (2022) investigated the impact of Tripadvisor on the performance of restaurants situated in a heavily touristic area, namely the province of Rome. The author leveraged a natural experiment prompted by a policy change which suddenly eliminated mobile roaming charges in the EU.…”

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“…This policy change caused an arguably exogenous variation in the costs for travelers to access online reviews. Donati (2022) combined data from Tripadvisor with administrative employer-employee records sourced from the Italian National Social Security Institute (INPS) and the Italian Business Registry. For approximately 5,500 matched restaurants in the province of Rome, the dataset includes time-invariant information such as name, address, price category, type of cuisine and other covariates.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The End of Tourist Traps: A Natural Experiment on the Impact of Tripadvisor on Quality Upgrading

Cited by 2 publications

References 82 publications

The Behavioral, Economic, and Political Impact of the Internet and Social Media: Empirical Challenges and Approaches

The Behavioral, Economic, and Political Impact of the Internet and Social Media: Empirical Challenges and Approaches

The behavioral, economic, and political impact of the Internet and social media: Empirical challenges and approaches

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