Travel website trick a ticket to oblivion
DOMESTIC ONLINE TRAVEL AGENCY Mafengwo has reportedly been posting false customer comments on its official website. Chen Liteng, an analyst at Hangzhou-based think tank E-commerce Research Center, comments:
On its official website, Mafengwo claims to be a global travel consumption guide, featuring a platform on which more than 100 million travelers share their comments on 920,000 global hotels.
Among all its content, the customer comments, which number 21 million, are the most important. However, on Sunday, a domestic data analysis company Hooray Data said they analyzed the 21 million customer views and found 18 million of them might have been copied from other rating websites. The copied comments are "exactly like the original ones, not a single word is different", the company said after completing its comparison.
