| Abstract: | This paper examines the hotel online-booking market in China. Information on prices along with three attributes, room type, location, and star rank, have been collected from nine representative online-booking websites. The empirical results show significant relationships between price dispersion and the room attributes. Key findings include: the higher the hotel rank and room type, the larger the price dispersion; the three cities exhibit different price dispersion patterns, and the higher the quality of the room, the larger the price dispersion is affected by location. |
