Here's why you can never trust online hotel reviews 100%


By AGENCY
Just like how you shouldn’t always trust pictures of hotel rooms on booking sites, hotel reviews are also something you need to be wary of. — Pixabay

Hotel reviews online are pushed on various platforms as a reliable way to judge the standards of accommodation, but the problem is that they are often fake.

Consumer rights advocate Tatjana Halm says it’s impossible to say exactly how high the proportion is. “This is partly because there are so many ways to fake them.”

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