123Original Scientific Paper UDC: 366.622:077
338.488.2:640.4 doi: 10.5937/menhottur2001037R
What do hotel guests really want? An analysis of online reviews using text mining
Cvetanka Ristova Maglovska1*
1 Goce Delcev University of Stip, Faculty of Tourism and Business Logistics, North Macedonia
Abstract: Hotels offer a range ofattribute-based services perceived to be wanted and gladly used by guests while staying at the hotel. That is, hotels at least think they have recognized the attributes of importance to their guests. Whether there is a desire for high -quality Wi-Fi, touchscreen technology, RFID or even tablet-controlled hotel room to satisfy the digital-savvy guests or small fridge, microwave and tea for families, hotels today find themselves into a position where online reviews represent one of the most valuable tools for getting insights into the factors that determine guests' experiences. By scraping the online reviews of 21 five-star hotels in North Macedonia on Booking.com, this paper investigates the attributes that are affecting guests' experience by analyzing the sets of online reviews using text mining. Research findings offer a more consistent understanding of the guest experience expressed in online reviews in terms of determining which amenities enhance guest satisfaction. The paper also illustrates how the methodological approach of text mining enables the use and visual interpretation ofthe data, and thus contributes to the studies in the field of hotel management.
Keywords: guest, hotel, online reviews, text mining JEL classification: L83, Z32
Sta gosti hotela stvarno zele? Analiza onlajn recenzije pomocu rudarenja teksta
Sazetak: Hoteli pruzaju niz usluga zasnovanih na hotelskim atributima za koje pretpostavljaju da ce ih gosti rado koristiti tokom boravka u hotelu. Odnosno, hoteli bar misle da su prepoznali atribute od znacaja za njihove goste. Bez obzira na to da li postoji zelja za visokokvalitetnom Wi-Fi tehnologijom, ekranom osetljivim na dodir, RFID ili hotelskom sobom koja je kontrolisana od strane tableta, ili pak za malim friziderom, mikrotalasnom pecnicom i mogucnoscu pripremanja caja za porodicu, hoteli se danas nalaze u polozaju gde onlajn recenzije predstavljaju jedan od najvrednijih alata za dobijanje uvida u faktore koji odreduju iskustvo gostiju. Izdvajanjem onlajn recenzija 21 hotela sa pet zvezdica u Severnoj Makedoniji na Booking.com, ovaj rad istrazuje atribute koji uticu na iskustvo gostiju analizirajuci skupove onlajn pregleda primenom rudarenja teksta. Rezultati istrazivanja nude dosledno razumevanje iskustva gosta izrazenog u onlajn recenzijama u smislu utvrdivanja sadrzaja koji povecavaju njegovo zadovoljstvo. Rad, takode, prikazuje kako metodoloski pristup rudarenje teksta omogucava koriscenje i vizuelno interpretiranje podataka, pa samim tim doprinosi studijama u oblasti hotelijerstva.
* cvetanka.ristova@ugd.edu.mk
Kljucne reci: gost, hotel, onlajn recenzje, rudarenje teksta JEL klasifikacija: L83, Z32
1. Introduction
Millions of guests are hosted by the hotel industry every day answering to all the expectations guests have when checking into the hotel. Hotels offer a range of attribute based services to their guests, but understanding what kind of services or attribute -based services align with the fulfillment of guests' expectations is the key to getting guests back, so it is not surprising that more and more hotels approach the use of advanced data analytics solution that will increase guest satisfaction (Shabani et al, 2017). The power oftext mining has been proven in many industries, helping businesses save money, increase efficiency and make more informed decisions based on insightful activities. Because text mining helps raise the quality of service to a higher level, it is undoubtedly accepted by almost all sectors and businesses, and hospitality is no exception. Since the hotel industry is highly competitive (Jovanovic, 2019), text mining finds its application following this fact. A key challenge for the hotel industry is that in an age of constant connectivity brought by digital technologies, guests have very high expectations and are increasingly looking for a personalized experience. It is actually the digital media that affects the modern lives of guests' (Vidakovic & Vidakovic, 2019), bringing them to a different pattern of consumption (Kuzmanovic & Makajic-Nikolic, 2020) that craves for personalization i.e. specific desires for hotel attributes. If guests feel that they are not satisfied with the services that are offered, they alway s have many other options nearby. To maintain competitiveness and strengthen loyalty, hotels are taking certain steps such as using text mining, a helpful and valuable tool to analyze guests' expectations in order to increase the level of satisfaction. Due to the huge amount of data that guests create, text mining is the perfect partner for the hotel industry. Online reviews are considered as a form of data, representing a form of content created by the guests and shared on the digital platforms. So, when guests are happy, the Internet knows it. Similarly, when a guest is unhappy, hotels carry the burden of that resentment in their online reviews. But, by collecting and analyzing these data with text mining approach in real-time, hotels are offered an opportunity to enhance the guest experience through analyzing the attributes that cause it in the first place.
This research focuses on collecting the online reviews from the 21 five-star categorized hotels in North Macedonia at Booking.com and therefore present text mining as a tool that enables automatic scraping and extracting knowledge from unstructured text such as online reviews. The rationale for conducting this research is found in the effectiveness of text mining as a tool that has the ability to answer and deliver real-time decisions regarding the attributes that constitute the guests' experience from analyzing online reviews. The paper is structured as follows. First, the theoretical background discusses the existing literature on hotel attributes, guest-generated reviews on the Internet and text mining. Second, the research framework presents the usage ofthe text mining method with the details of stages of text analysis. Results and discussions are then elaborated through the document-term matrix, LDA and sentiment analysis from the online reviews. The paper concludes with a summary of the research findings, contribution, limitations and brief recommendations of text mining future usage in hotels operations.
2. Theoretical background
2.1. Guest experience and the importance of hotel attributes
While the basic desire ofmost guests at the hotel is the same - to have a place to sleep and keep their belongings - there are countless variations that exist above this basic need. Some
guests want to make use of many different hotel facilities and offerings, whether it is enjoying the pool, enjoying the spa or using a well-stocked gym. Yet, some guests will want to use more services, besides a bed in the roomto sleep at night and store their clothes and other belongings in a safe place.
One of the most frequently researched topics in hospitality probably is identifying the attributes that actually contribute to hotel selection, booking, experience quality, guests' satisfaction and loyalty. Whereas, in academic literature, researches have shown that what hotel guests often want usually depends on their own individual specific needs, guests' needs vary from hotel to hotel, from destination to destination (Milicevic et al., 2020). Such is the case with Israeli hotels for disabled guests, where Poria et al.'s (2011) research found that while staying at the hotel, guests faced difficulties with physical surroundings and customer service and interactions. A study by Rhee and Yang (2015) using combined analysis to compare guests' expectations with their actual experience in luxury hotels showed that the hotel classification influences upon the priority ofhotel attributes desired by guests. Authors' findings ranked "rooms" as the most important guests' attribute, opposite to "location" which was ranked among the least important attributes of guests' experien ce and satisfaction.
Guests' experience and satisfaction in the past used to be researched and explored with guest surveys, especially comment cards (Lockyer, 2005). Today, with the rapid growth of digitalization, applications, and technology, guests are empowered to provide two-way information communication in the hotel industry as Internet users, thereby creating a huge amount of guest-generated content (Sigala, 2008) which ultimately provides the hotels a new method of understanding guests' expectations and experience adequately. Of all guest-generated content, online reviews are the ones characterised as electronic variations of the traditional written form ofWOM (Filieri & McLeay, 2014), therefore being one of the most prominent tools (Chatterjee, 2001) to assess guests' experiences in hospitality.
Hotel managers have already found that guest-generated reviews improve their ability for well-informed decision-making within their management activities resulting in upgrading performance, maximization of hotel profitability, and guest loyalty. Nowadays, guest-generated reviews are used by hotels to minimize flaws and mistakes in the hotels' products and services and use hotel means effectively. Of course, it is clear that all these advantages in hotel operation are initially provided by the expressed positive feelings, i.e. guest satisfaction in online reviews and the described attributes of hotel services, referring to the experience. Academic researchers, who confirm this, state that only positive guest-generated reviews create a quality eWOM that serves to increase hotel online bookings (Torres et al., 2015) through amplifying the reputation of the hotel (Ye et al., 2009) and the guests' reliability in the hotel (Kim et al., 2009). Per Kim et al.'s (2015) study, hotel revenue is significantly impacted by the number of online reviews, and according to Tuominen's (2011) research, a strong positive connection exists among the hotel room occupancy rate and revenue per available room (RevPAR) and the number of online reviews generated by guests.
Obviously, products and services must meet guests' expectations (Lakicevic & Sagic, 2019), therefore online reviews can be a huge benefit for hotels, but everything depends on how well they are managed. The key takeaway here is evident, and that is to invest in the cultivation of online reviews, because only through that process, will hotels be able to achieve the peak of guests' experience and satisfaction and therefore contribute to the overall hotels' operations. In what follows, text mining is presented as that key point able to examine and extract valuable accurate information from online reviews, i.e. attributes that form the guests' experience, because it is needless to say that, better performance of hotel operation activities listed above comes from fulfilled guests' experience and satisfaction, which in this case is derived from the hotel attributes can be traced in the guest-generated review.
2.2. Capturing the real value of online reviews with text mining
The challenge of gaining insights into guest-generated reviews is to extract valuable information and patterns from relatively large, highly unstructured (often mes sy) (McAfee & Brynjolfsson, 2012) text data written in natural language (authorized by human / guests). Manual scanning and analysis of such data is considered impractical due to the high computational load. Like the content itself, guest-generated reviews on the Internet are of high volume, variety and velocity and because of that could be considered as big data. However, how many data can be called "big" remains unknown (Mohanty, 2015). Since the volume actually refers to the number of online reviews generated on the Internet for a hotel in a given period, Liu et al.'s (2017) study shows the usage of412,784 reviews generated by guests at 10,149 hotels on TripAdvisor in five Chinese cities and gives us insight about how "big" data could be. The authors used the advantage of the guest-generated reviews, segregating them per language group in order to provide practical knowledge about the drive behind guest satisfaction. Their study found that international tourists, who wrote online reviews in other languages (the research covers reviews written in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese and Russian), significantly differed in their focus on the roles of various hotel attributes ("rooms", "location", "cleanliness", "service" and "value") in creating their maximum satisfaction rating of the hotel stay. As compared to international tourists, Chinese tourists at home had different room preferences relative to the other hotel attributes. Significant influences in the study were found regarding the interaction of hotel attributes "rooms" and "service" and between "value" and "service", meaning that if guests view a hotel deal as a good value for money, the demands they put on the service would be decreased, with the opposite impact at the other end of the value continuum.
Because ofthe unstructured form of natural language text and volume of guest-generated reviews on the Internet, text analysis, more precisely text mining and sentiment analysis play an essential part in capturing the real value from data. Text mining and sentiment analysis are considered the most suitable for various types of unstructured data in text form, where the content is legible and the meaning is obvious in the variety of various Internet sources, like review sites, social networks, forums, blogs, and so on. The objective of text mining is to exploit valuable information easily from a variety of text documents (He et al., 2013; Liu et al., 2011). Text mining's field deals with converting unstructured data into structured datasets, while reducing time and effort, but most of all it reduces data dimensionality into more manageable, meaningful and relevant data. Text mining focuses on finding and extracting hidden patterns, directions and connections, models, trends from unstructured data documents (He et al., 2015a; 2015b).
Recently, the approach of text mining on unstructured features of guest -generated reviews on the Internet, like text context, has been receiving growing academic attention (Goh et al., 2013). Actually, the research using text mining in hospitality is relatively recent. In hospitality, text mining frequently focuses on some common words listed in the online reviews, namely: location, room size, staff, breakfast, comfort, temperature, cleanliness and maintenance (Nickolas & Lee, 2017; O'Connor, 2010). For example, by analyzing and comparing 2,510 online reviews generated, Berezina et al. (2016) used text mining approach to investigate the basics of guests' satisfaction and dissatisfaction at a hotel. Authors' research further has found that satisfied guests who respond more frequently to the intangible elements as "staff' are more likely to recommend hotels to others than dissatisfied guests. Contrarily, dissatisfied guests rely more on tangible elements as "furniture" and "finances" during the hotel stay. In Barreda and Bilgihan's (2013) study of 17,357 guest-generated reviews from TripAdvisor.com it was found that "bedroom" and "bathroom" services, "location", "standards of service" and "cleanliness" were importa nt issues for guests.
Since the Internet has brought information explosion of unstructured data, sentiment analysis (commonly known as opinion mining) has also become special application of text mining. Pang and Lee (2008) describe sentiment analysis as a computational systematic exploration and study of beliefs, emotions, thoughts, attitudes and subjectivity in a text. Further than this, sentiment analysis is considered to be a method for retrieving information and classify ing data into subjective categories (positive, negative or neutral) or calculate the intensity of feelings (Pang & Lee, 2008; Thelwall et al., 2010). In academic research, Duan et al. (2013) operated the technique of sentiment analysis to extract 70,103 guest-generated reviews on the Internet from 1999-2011 of 86 hotels in Washington, while Geetha et al. (2017) concentrated on the sentiment orientation of guest-generated reviews on the Internet and found it had affected guest ratings. He et al. (2017) performed text mining, natural language preprocessing to clean the text documents and sentiment analysis for guest-generated reviews on the Internet and found that sentiment results from the title and content of guest-generated reviews were highly correlated with overall guests' ratings for hotels. The study of Qu et al. (2008) also suggests that most sentiment feelings derived from text reviews were significantly associated with overall guest assessment.
The above-mentioned research studies show how successful results and good outcomes from guest-generated reviews may come by leveraging text mining and sentiment analysis. The established relation between text analysis and guest-generated reviews in these studies further verifies that only by engaging this approach, hotel attributes mentioned in real-time online reviews that maximize the guests' experience can be determined.
3. Materials and methods
To obtain adequate and proper data, online reviews were collected from one of the biggest travel metasearch engines for reservation, Booking.com. Booking's reviews have bee n listed as more trustworthy because only guests that have previously booked through Booking.com can write a review, which eliminates the appearance of fake reviews. For the data to be compiled, Python web crawling was chosen, where Scrapy was used as a web crawler framework. As a research sample only five-star categorized hotels in North Macedonia were targeted at Booking.com, in order to understand what attributes cause guests' experience and satisfaction in luxury hotels. The crawler scraped 2,801 online reviews from 21 hotels on Booking.com from 8 cities in North Macedonia. As Kozinets (2010) states, there was now need for ethical clearance the "download of existing posts does not strictly qualify as human subjects research" (p. 151). Consent is only needed where there is contact or interference (Hookway, 2008).
For further analysis, the data was inputted into the R program. After the cleaning of non-English reviews, the data set was left with 2,222 online reviews written in the English language. Later, R program tools were used to process the data, and remove all stop words, punctuation marks and set all reviews into lowercase. Once the coding process was done, reviews were divided into words, resulting in 3,200 different words. When the word frequency was listed, a lot ofadjective words were listed in the data, such as "wonderful", "amazing", "perfect" and others. Because this paper is focused on mining the attributes in the online reviews, some of these adjective words were removed, but some were left as "helpful' because they give us a closer look on how the attributes evoke the experience. Some other forms of linguistic entity were encoded in R into a "rudimentary" form reflecting the same significance. For example, for the word "restaurant", several forms as "restaurant", "restorant", "restoraunt" and "resturants" were noted and changed. Other unnecessary words include "look", "observation", "say", "round" and many others. This resulted with the extraction of 365 different words, connected to the guest experience.
4. Results and discussion
When all reviews and words were processed by R, the frequency of the words was calculated. This coding process was performed iteratively from high-frequency words to low-frequency ones. Table 1 displays the data from high-frequency to low-frequency words that were selected for statistical analysis with frequency of more than >30 words. Table 1 lists 70 relevant words associated to the guests' experience, used to describe the satisfaction rate alongside their total frequency. These words represent a broad variety ofhotel and hotel stay related attributes relevant to the experience of hotel guests.
Table 1: Document frequency term-matrix of 70 words in online reviews
Word Frequency Percentage Word Frequency Percentage
room 650 6.64% price 63 0.64%
hotel 513 5.24% bar 62 0.63%
staff 430 4.39% children 51 0.52%
breakfast 398 4.07% day 51 0.52%
location 331 3.38% coffee 49 0.50%
pool 248 2.53% cold 49 0.50%
clean 233 2.38% lake 47 0.48%
spa 206 2.10% reception 47 0.48%
bathroom 192 1.96% expectation 46 0.47%
comfortable 187 1.91% recommendation 46 0.47%
center 176 1.80% booking 45 0.46%
restaurant 171 1.75% roofbar 45 0.46%
friendly 159 1.62% check-in 44 0.45%
service 150 1.53% floor 43 0.44%
food 149 1.52% free 43 0.44%
helpful 124 1.27% polite 43 0.44%
view 116 1.18% dining 42 0.43%
bed 109 1.11% sauna 42 0.43%
wellness 91 0.93% bad 41 0.42%
place 90 0.92% hot 38 0.39%
facilities 88 0.90% money 38 0.39%
guests 88 0.90% noise 38 0.39%
parking 84 0.86% superior 38 0.39%
shower 84 0.86% warm 36 0.37%
old 82 0.84% door 36 0.37%
onebedroom 81 0.83% delicious 35 0.36%
time 81 0.83% disgusting 34 0.35%
area 79 0.81% relax 33 0.34%
swimsuit 78 0.80% quality 33 0.34%
quiet 74 0.76% balcony 32 0.34%
renovation 74 0.76% broken 32 0.33%
fitness 71 0.74% lights 32 0.33%
star 69 0.70% air-condition 31 0.33%
spacious 68 0.69% holiday 31 0.32%
night 63 0.64% smell 31 0.64%
Source: Author's research
The frequency of these 70 words indicates that the first 18 words represent approximately half (46.39%), while the rest ofthe words account for less than 30%, (28.23%) of the total frequency of all words. As Ko (2018) states, the distribution can be described as one of the words with a fairly high frequency named as the "head" and words with low frequency (accurately in this research sample with an average percentage of less than 1 per word beginning from the 19th word) named "long tail". "Head" words, concentrate on basic products and services, as well as essential attributes, such as "room", "bed", "bathroom", "staff', "breakfast", "food", "service", "cleanliness", "location", "pool", "spa", "friendliness" and so on. The words from the "long tail" show the guests' other essential areas - the experience. Some of these words are practical and factual in nature, although others are guests' personalized evaluation of their stay in the hotel.
Afterwards, topic modelling was used trying to find similar topics across the guest-generated reviews on the Internet, and trying to group different words together, such that each topic will consist ofwords with similar meanings. The summary included in this paper was Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) analysis with Gbbs sampling in R. LDA transforms each review into a vector ofweights representing the intensity of each topic in the review, where a topic is a distribution of probabilities over the set of words used in the database reviews. This probabilistic model assigns the word a probability score of the most probable topic that it could be potentially belong to. Using these probabilities, twenty most likely words were ranged in each topic in order of how likely it was that each word belongs to that topic as shown is Table 2.
Table 2: Classifying words to a particular topic using LDA topic modelling
Services Perception Location Value Hybrid
room breakfast building restaurant minibar
staff roofbar area food loud
breakfast dining spacious view renovation
bathroom disgusting apartment time delicious
restaurant standards new amenities air-condition
pool dishes nature business smell
spa experience walls complementary pleasant
facilities tasteful mountain hospitality furniture
price cheap trees assistance supermarket
reception bread motorcycle categorization luxury
recommendation rich monastery room local
free healthy horse hotel ambience
car chocolate mosquito staff vegetables
lobby salad room location connection
taxi steak hotel service suite
size traditional center place garden
sheets omelet view facilities complain
skybar ham place price payment
conference cocoa parking free attractions
netflix staff lake booking dust
Source: Author's research
The words are in ascending order of phi-value. The higher the ranking, the more probable the word will belong to the topic. While performing LDA in R all 365 words were used in the analysis, in order to get a wider range of words. Topics were named according to the representation of words. Typical words for the five topics are:
1. Topic 1 (Services) - Usually associated words with the hotel's facilities include: "room", "breakfast", "bathroom", "pool" and "spa".
2. Topic 2 (Perception) - Perception words connected to the guests' stay include: "disgusting", "dishes", "cheap", "traditional" and "staff'.
3. Topic 3 (Location) - Words associated with the location of the hotels include: "building", "area", "new", "nature", "center", "view" and "place".
4. Topic 4 (Value) - Words associated with guests' perceived value or money in the hotel include: "food", "time", "free", "complementary", "price" and "expectation".
5. Topic 5 (Hybrid) - Words that appear to consist two distinctive groups of words reflecting the very different experiences of hotel guests include: "vegetables", "supermarket", "delicious", "smell", "pleasant", "local", "luxury" and "dust".
Using NRC in R for sentiment analysis is immensely helpful when it comes to analyzing a text. In other terms, the polarity ofthe sentiment articulated within the spectrum that ranges from positive to negative is extracted and shown in Table 3.
Table 3: Sentiment analysis of hotel online reviews
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
-4.5000 0.0000 0.5000 0.6868 1.2000 6.6000
Source: Author's research
Our sentiment analysis has found that reviews tend to have slightly more positive content than negative content, but there are some extreme outliers with negative sentiment being -4.5, whereas positive sentiment was +6.6. As we see, these are quite far away from the mean and the median.
Figure 1: Boxplot of sentiment analysis of hotel online reviews
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Source: Author's research
As a graphical representation of sentiment analysis, boxplot is used to visually show the distribution ofnumerical data and skewness through displaying the data. Seeing in Figure 1 that the median is +0.5, only a slight part ofthe online reviews tends to be positive. Since a
strong outlier is showed in both positive in negative sentiment, examples ofthe reviews with Syuzhet method in R will be shown in Table 4 to figure out which the most positive and negative review was and the whole paragraph.
Table 4: Examples of reviews with the highest and lowest sentiment
Sentiment Review
-4.5000 The room was totally in a bad condition the furniture was a horrible, floor and the walls were full of dust, the jacuzzi in the room was broken and in a very bad and dirty condition. It was an improvisation of jacuzzi unfortunately.
6.6000 Beautiful hotel, beautifully decorated room, clean, excellent spa, super service at a high level, great choice of dining in the restaurant and finally an excellent choice for the end of the day in the roofbar on 5th floor.
Source: Author's research
Given the statistics, gu ests' experience as seen in this research is, undoubtedly, an extraordinarily complex construct. In general, guests use the same attributes associated with hotel stays to assess their experience, although only the order of priority of those attributes may vary. The document-term matrix and topic modeling, identify the guest experience by representing which attributes guests consider as significant, important and contribute to their experience and satisfaction in a particular hotel. Therefore, these lists of words represent a "discreet" and "direct" presentation of the guest experience.
According to the research, guests' rank their experience as satisfactory or dissatisfactory in an online review from various perspectives. Guests complain most about dirty and outdated rooms, where the words "renovation", "old", "dirty" appear. However, data also noted, that guests were pleased with their hotel experiences for a variety of reasons, delicious food, friendly staff and location of the hotel in nature, mountains or even more particular they could be satisfied from products with rich, traditional attributes or dissatisfactory from products with disgusting attributes.
5. Conclusion
In these times, it is common for hotel guests to review a product or service online. In the online reviews, guests leave text content to publicly express their own personal thoughts and feelings, and briefly reveal their opinion about the hotel attributes. Critically, hotels are presented with a viable approach of the widespread applications of text analysis as text mining and sentiment analysis, allowing hotels to extract vast volume of accumulated text, and thus enabling them to effectively study and analyze the hotel attributes that form guests' experience. The research outcome shows that guests are prone to share even the tiniest detail of the hotel attribute and how it affected their experience in an online review. As expected, attributes as "room", "staff', "breakfast", "location", "bathroom", "restaurant" come among the top, but then again attributes as "shower", "balcony", "door" and "floor" appear, giving us more wide insight besides the already expected attributes mentioned above. Related attributes to the guests' stay at the hotel that also matter have been presented, where the findings reveal "friendly", "quiet", "polite", "delicious" and "disgusting" are important to the guests' experience.
In sum, the theoretical and practical implications of using text mining for scraping guest-generated reviews on the Internet are tremendously significant. Without text mining in hospitality, valuable guest information can be lost or ignored, which is a major shortcoming for a predominantly guest-oriented industry. Also, text mining can be used as a tool to create
vast profiles of information about guests, emphasizing the most important practical implication; enabling the hotel to deliver and create personalization or personalized experience.
Several limitations can be found in this paper. First, in this research sample, the document-term matrix presents a variety of hotel and hotel stay related attributes, where in future researches it is recommended to narrow them for better determination ofthe hotel attributes that contribute to the guests' experience. Second, LDA topic modeling shows some overlapping words, where again in future researches a small set ofwords might be used that would result in overlapping between topics. Lastly, NRC in R offers a possibility to further explore the sentiment in online reviews, beside positive and negative, but in another 8 emotion type, which by analyzing, can provide even better insights for hotels, like what attributes made guests feel joy, trust or anger, disgust.
Acknowledgment
The research work by Ristova Maglovska, C. for this paper was done during an Erasmus+ Traineeship from February 1st, 2020 to May 1st, 2020 at the University of Kragujevac, Faculty ofHotel Management and Tourism in Vrnjacka Banja under the mentorship of assoc. prof. Darko Dimitrovski.
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Received: 13 April 2020; Sent for revision: 16 April 2020; Accepted: 4 May 2020
