• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.179-210
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• 2015

Despite the increasing adoption of gamification and its huge potential in tourism, research in gamification is still limited. As preliminary findings show that the effectiveness of gamification depends on the context of its application and the players' use of the gamified app, this paper fills in these gaps: by exploring and analysing the application of gamification in a specific e-commerce tourism context; and assessing the gamification's effectiveness by measuring the players' gamification usage and the latter's behavioural and psychological outcomes. The gamified TripAdvisor website and its Facebook enabled gamification app are used as the specific context of the study. Findings from a survey conducted on TripAdvisor users provide useful practical and theoretical implications to gamification designers and researchers alike on how game mechanics can be designed for enhancing the users' motivation, flow, task involvement and engagement with the 'play' tasks, and so, increasing the gamification's effectiveness.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.443-451
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• 2021

The classification standards for hotels in Vietnam are different from many other hotel classification standards in the world. This study aims to analyze customer reviews on the TripAdvisor website to develop a new algorithm for hotel rating that is independent of Vietnam's hotel classification standards. This method can be applied to individual hotels, or hotels of a region or the whole country, while online booking sites only rate individual hotels. Data was crawled from TripAdvisor with 22,287 reviews of 5 cities in Vietnam. This study used a statistical model to analyze the review dataset and build an algorithm to rate hotels according to aspects or hotel overall. The results have less rating deviation when compared to the TripAdvisor system. This study also supports hotel managers to regularly update the status of their hotels using data from customer reviews, from which, managers can strategize long-term solutions to improve the quality of the hotel in all aspects and attract more travelers to Vietnam. Moreover, this method can be developed into an automatic system to rate hotels and update the status of service quality more quickly, thus, saving time and costs.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.89-110
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• 2018

Purpose There is much information in customer reviews, but finding key information in many texts is not easy. Business decision makers need a model to solve this problem. In this study we propose a multi-topic sentiment analysis approach using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) for user-generated contents (UGC). Design/methodology/approach In this paper, we collected a total of 104,039 hotel reviews in seven of the world's top tourist destinations from TripAdvisor (www.tripadvisor.com) and extracted 30 topics related to the hotel from all customer reviews using the LDA model. Six major dimensions (value, cleanliness, rooms, service, location, and sleep quality) were selected from the 30 extracted topics. To analyze data, we employed R language. Findings This study contributes to propose a lexicon-based sentiment analysis approach for the keywords-embedded sentences related to the six dimensions within a review. The performance of the proposed model was evaluated by comparing the sentiment analysis results of each topic with the real attribute ratings provided by the platform. The results show its outperformance, with a high ratio of accuracy and recall. Through our proposed model, it is expected to analyze the customers' sentiments over different topics for those reviews with an absence of the detailed attribute ratings.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.2609-2626
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• 2023

The hotel industry is an example of experiential services. As consumers cannot fully evaluate the online review content and quality of their services before booking, they must rely on several online reviews to reduce their perceived risks. However, individuals face information overload owing to the explosion of online reviews. Therefore, consumer cognitive fluency is an individual's subjective experience of the difficulty in processing information. Information complexity influences the receiver's attitude, behavior, and purchase decisions. Individuals who cannot process complex information rely on the peripheral route, whereas those who can process more information prefer the central route. This study further discusses the influence of the complexity of review information on hotel ratings using online attraction review data retrieved from TripAdvisor.com. This study conducts a two-level empirical analysis to explore the factors that affect review value. First, in the Peripheral Route model, we introduce a negative binomial regression model to examine the impact of intuitive and straightforward information on hotel ratings. In the Central Route model, we use a Tobit regression model with expert reviews as moderator variables to analyze the impact of complex information on hotel ratings. According to the analysis, five-star and budget hotels have different effects on hotel ratings. These findings have immediate implications for hotel managers in terms of better identifying potentially valuable reviews.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.99-126
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• 2023

As cultural background contributes members of society to recognize and behave in a specific direction, customers with different cultural backgrounds show various reactions even when they are provided with the same service. Previous studies have used the Hofstede cultural dimension to understand how hotel visitors' satisfaction varies with the provided service as per their cultural background. However existing research only considered the cultural background of the guests, and there are not many studies focused on the types of travel. Therefore, in this study, the travel types of hotel visitors are classified into business travel visitors and leisure tourism visitors, and analyzed the effect of Hofstede's cultural dimension on hotel selection attributes according to the styles of travel. In this study, we collected information on six cultural dimensions of Hofstede, and from TripAdvisor, a representative tourism platform, 204,261 optional attribute ratings for hotels in New York to investigate the satisfaction of hotel selection attributes. In conclusion, it is expected that this study will be able to identify which service attributes the customers of various cultures who visit hotels put emphasis in advance, and therefore provide suitable service accordingly.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.181-185
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• 2022

고객들은 조작된 온라인 리뷰가 범람하는 가운데 진정성과 가치를 지닌 리뷰를 보고자한다. 귀인 이론(Attribution theory)의 관점에서, 사람들은 리뷰어의 과거 평가 이력을 바탕으로 리뷰가 진정성 있는지를 판단하는 경향이 있다. 이러한 배경에서 본 연구의 목적은 리뷰어의 과거 평점 이력이 조작된 리뷰로 인식하는 것에 어떠한 영향을 미치며, 최종적으로 리뷰 유용성이 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 알아보는 것이다. 제안된 가설을 검증하기 위해 2차 데이터 분석(연구1)과 실험(연구2)을 수행했으며, 두 연구는 일관된 결과를 보여준다. 연구 1은 리뷰어의 과거 평가 이력이 리뷰 유용성에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 귀인이론에 근거하면, 사람들은 리뷰를 다른 목적을 가지고 작성되었다고 인식할 경우에 리뷰가 조작되었다고 생각하고, 그 리뷰가 물건이나 서비스의 진정한 가치를 평가하지 않았다고 간주한다. 따라서 해당 리뷰는 유용성이 낮게 평가되는 경향이 있다. 2차 데이터를 분석하기 위해 우리는 Python을 이용한 웹 스크레이퍼를 개발하여 TripAdvisor(TripAdvisor.com)에서 호텔 정보, 리뷰, 리뷰 정보 등의 연구 데이터를 수집하였다. 수집한 890명 리뷰어에 대한 100,621개의 리뷰를 분석하기 위해 음이항 회귀 분석을 수행하였다. 분석 결과, 평균 평점을 낮게 주는 리뷰어의 경우에 리뷰 유용성에 유의미한 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 사람들은 극단적인 평점을 거의 주지 않는 리뷰어가 작성한 리뷰가 더 도움이 된다고 평가했다. 연구 2는 리뷰어의 과거 평점 이력을 기준으로 리뷰가 조작되었다고 평가하는 사람들의 인식 프로세스를 실험하였다. 실험 결과, 사람들은 리뷰어의 과거 평점 이력이 평균적으로 평점을 낮게 주는 경우에는 리뷰가 의심스럽다고 판단하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 사람들은 리뷰어가 대부분 극단적인 평점을 주는 이력이 있다면 해당 리뷰어가 작성한 리뷰가 의심스럽다고 판단하는 것으로 나타났다. 연구2는 사람들이 리뷰어의 과거 평점 이력을 바탕으로 리뷰가 조작되었는지 또는 리뷰가 도움이 되는지 판단하는 경향이 있음을 보여준다. 본 연구는 귀인이론을 바탕으로 리뷰어의 과거 평점 이력이 리뷰 조작성에 대한 인식과 리뷰 유용성에 미치는 영향을 분석하여, 해당 연구분야에 새로운 관점을 추가한 기여점이 있다.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.173-195
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• 2020

Purpose The purpose of this study is to verify the effect of reviewer's attributes on review usefulness while exploring the variables that can moderate the relationship between reviewer's attributes and review usefulness through empirical analysis. Design/methodology/approach To understand the impact of online reviewer profiles on review usefulness and how these impacts change, this study collected more than 30,000 online reviews of restaurants through TripAdvisor.com, that is a representative OTA shares tourism information. We analyze the moderating effects of four variables such as review length, review equivocality, review uncertainty, and review readability. Findings According to the empirical analysis result, this study reveals that the reviewer's profile attribute can significantly improve the review usefulness of the reviewer, and confirmed the moderating effect of the review's attribute(Review length, Equivocality, Uncertainty, Readability).

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.9-17
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• 2023

The development of information and communication technology and the improvement of the development and dissemination of smart devices have caused changes in the form of tourism, and the concept of smart tourism has since emerged. In this regard, researches related to smart tourism has been conducted in various fields such as policy implementation and surveys, but there is a lack of research on application reviews. This study collects Trip Advisor application review data in the Google Play Store to identify usage of the application and user satisfaction through Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling. The analysis results in four topics, two of which are positive and the other two are negative. We found that users were satisfied with the application's recommendation system, but were dissatisfied when the filters they set during search were not applied or that reviews were not published after updates of the application. We suggest more categories can be added to the application to provide users with different experiences. In addition, it is expected that user satisfaction can be improved by identifying problems within the application, including the filter function, and checking the application environment and resolving the error occurring during the application usage.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.51-75
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• 2021

Global e-commerce websites offer personalized recommendation services to gain sustainable competitiveness. Existing studies have offered personalized recommendation services using quantitative preferences such as ratings. However, offering personalized recommendation services using only quantitative data has raised the problem of decreasing recommendation performance. For example, a user gave a five-star rating but wrote a review that the user was unsatisfied with hotel service and cleanliness. In such cases, has problems where quantitative and qualitative preferences are inconsistent. Recently, a growing number of studies have considered review data simultaneously to improve the limitations of existing personalized recommendation service studies. Therefore, in this study, we identify review and rating mismatches and build a new user profile to offer personalized recommendation services. To this end, we use deep learning algorithms such as CNN, LSTM, CNN + LSTM, which have been widely used in sentiment analysis studies. And extract sentiment features from reviews and compare with quantitative preferences. To evaluate the performance of the proposed methodology in this study, we collect user preference information using real-world hotel data from the world's largest travel platform TripAdvisor. Experiments show that the proposed methodology in this study outperforms the existing other methodologies, using only existing quantitative preferences.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.527-543
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• 2020

The aim of this study is develop a state-funded education and training curriculum to contribute to the development of the fashion industry infrastructure. This will be achieved based on the service sector by the competitive clothing sales personnel and fashion startups. The study was conducted using a qualitative research method. The participants were 20 representatives of fashion-related companies and employees from one traditional market and two fashion outlets in Seogu, Gwangju. Data was collected from September 2015 to January 2017 by demand surveys and in-depth interviews. These were conducted on the same day at each clothing store office. In addition, existing literature was also reviewed. The collected data were first summarized into 64 meaning units from which three themes were derived by arranging, classifying, and analyzing the data. The findings of the study are as follows. First, the education and training curriculum for fashion job creation is aimed at job-oriented field-types with the objective of cultivating professional skills for online to offline fashion professionals. Second, the curriculum for fashion advisors was developed to consisted of 8 courses of 150 hours, including job knowledge, a foreign language, fashion-specific knowledge, fashion marketing & VMD, store management know-how, clothing repair, field trip, and internship. Third, the curriculum for fashion entrepreneurs consisted of 8 courses of 106 hours, including entrepreneurship, fashion practice, startup, field trip, finance & taxation accounting, marketing, social enterprise course, and internship.