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racism review from Guest

What does booking.com content team usually do with racism review and low rating?

 


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fluff 5 years ago

When you complain about the racism to BDC they will remove the comment. The rating bars and score will remain and you won't be able to reply.

Alternatively, as the scoring remains, you may prefer to give a carefully considered response. One that makes you look good but underlines their racist bigotry.

Reading that again I see they have used an online name that is also racist so maybe, just maybe, BDC will relent and remove the entire thing?????

Possibly ask them what their intended action is BEFORE actually doing it.

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Booking 5 years ago

thank you very much for your response. That's really helpful

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Booking 5 years ago

I just received a call from BDC, they will keep the rating bars, score and review.

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fluff 5 years ago

That's really bad! Shame on BDC.

You have a decision to make, either give a reply (this would be my choice) as I said before or complain strongly to BDC that they are condoning racism, remember to include the chosen online name of the racist scum as part of the complaint ;-)

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Booking 5 years ago

BDC finally removed the review and rating score. Please see below:

Dear ****,

Thank you for working with Booking.com.

Following your request we have removed review for reservation ***. We apologize for allowing inappropriate comments of the guest to be published on the site.

If you have any other queries or frustrations, please feel free to get in touch. We are always happy to offer assistance.

Kind regards,

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Booking 5 years ago

Final update: BDC put back the racist's Rating Score and deleted the review

Dear Partner,

Thanks for your request. We’ve taken another look at the review in question and have decided to remove the comments because they go against our policies. Just be aware that it may take us up to 48 hours to remove the comments completely from our website. And since the guest did actually stay at the property, their review score remains valid and visible online.
We’re very sorry for any inconvenience caused by these comments. Thanks for your patience and understanding throughout this process.

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fluff 5 years ago

As predicted.

Has the racist user name remained? If yes, keep complaining!

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Booking 5 years ago

I just keep complaining about this review and rating score to BDC. I got a reply today:

Dear Partner,

Thank you for working with Booking.com

Further to the reservation's *** review, we inform you that is removed again due to not related travel content.

The guest is only scoring the property with a 2.5 for nationalities and this content is not considered travel related. Kindly note that because an error the review was not removed in the first place.

Please check all changes and if anything is incorrect, let us know immediately. Once again, thank you for bringing this to our attention and we ensure that we have zero tolerance when it comes down to discrimination. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

If you have any other questions, the Partner Help Centre covers many topics and we’re always here to help.

Partner Help Centre

Thank you for working with Booking.com.

All the best,

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Arche Noah Gue… 2 years ago

I have just had the same experience with a very racist guest who made verbal racist comments towards my staff in the hotel (as well as being aggressive) and followed it up with racist comments in his actual review  when he said ´some latinos´ which is a clear reference to the language he used in the hostel where he was insulting to Venezuelans purely becaue of their race. The review (score and comments) were clearly motivated by racism but booking.com have just said that they will delete the comments but not the score of 1 that he left. This to me is disgraceful because I cannot even answer and defend my staff against the guests racist comments. Surely a zero tolerance for racism shoud mean a zero tolerance. I have replied to booking.com for them to escalate this further and remain optimistic that they will not want to be seen to condone racism at all. Any thoughts appreciated. Thanks 

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Sergei - Commu…
2 years ago

Hi Arche Noah Guesthouse! Really sorry to hear you had to experience this kind of guest's behavior. Thanks for flagging this problem. I will share your comment with the product team. 

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Sergei - Commu…
2 years ago

Hi, Arche Noah Guesthouse! Once again, I'm sorry for the bad experience you had to go through. The product team replied to me that they have reviewed it. They understand the concern and are working on finding the best way to address it. This is a top priority for them to make sure other partners don't face this in the future.