In terms of the detailed processes of co-creation with customers, it is useful to contrast the approaches taken by the two groups of case study hotels. Within the first group the attitude to co-creation was in many instances somewhat tentative. For example, in the case of Hotel B the response to our questions about co-creation was to talk in general terms about guest comment cards stating ‘She [the ‘champion’ appointed at each hotel] sits down once a month and goes through them one by one, and anything negative she reacts to’. The hotel group had recently started to look at comments on TripAdvisor ‘making sure that if anything negative is posted we respond to it’. As the interviewee (the revenue manager) went on to explain ‘Other than general ad-hoc comments I really don’t think I’ve done anything major with what we have’. One exception being; ‘Refurbishments, we tend to listen to what our guests tell us particularly with in-room technology, you know there’s this big question of whether we will still charge for Wi-Fi or not’. The one pro-active approach they had introduced was that guests who book via the website get an e-mail from the Managing Director asking for any comments. However, the respondent stated, ‘he regrets doing this now with the amount of work it’s making’. This contrasts with the increasing importance noted in the research literature on the harvesting of customer opinions across the hotel industry (Pekar & Ou, 2007). It is worth pointing out that the hotel’s response to comments on TripAdvisor was itself unusual within this group.