Tourists don’t just bring cameras and appetites on vacation, they also bring rosier opinions. A new study in the INFORMS journal Information Systems Research finds that travelers systematically give restaurants higher online ratings than locals do, revealing a “tourist bias” that could distort how diners and platforms interpret online reviews.
Tourists give restaurants higher ratings than locals, new study finds
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