Survival strategies for family-run homestays: Analyzing user reviews through text mining
Data Science and Management(2024)
Abstract
Online booking of homestays through e-travel portals is based on the virtual brand and perception, which are largely affected by user-generated electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM). With the objective of mining actionable insights from eWOM, this study conducted opinion mining for homestays located in four thematic areas of Kerala. Accordingly, various techniques have been deployed, such as sentiment and emotional analyses, topic modeling, and clustering methods. Key themes revealed from topic modeling were breakfast, facilities provided, ambience, bathroom, cleanliness, hospitality exhibited, and satisfaction with the host. A lasso logistic regression-based predictive binary text classification model (with 97.6% accuracy) for homestay recommendations was developed. Our findings and predictive model have implications for managers and homestay owners in devising appropriate marketing strategies and improving their overall guest experience.
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Key words
Text mining,Tourism,Homestays,Topic modeling,Predictive modeling
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