Does hotel customer satisfaction change during the COVID-19? A perspective from online reviews
Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
; 51:132-138, 2022.
Article
in English
| CAB Abstracts | ID: covidwho-1899923
ABSTRACT
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has impacted the hotel industry in all aspects. However, the changes in hotel customer satisfaction deserve additional attention. Using online hotel reviews, this study explores the difference between the influencing factors of customer satisfaction before and after the COVID-19 outbreak. By use of Latent Dirichlet Allocation and sentiment analysis, factors that affect customer satisfaction and their emotional strength before and after the COVID-19 outbreak are extracted. Then, multiple regression models are established to compare the differences of the impact of each factor on hotel customer satisfaction in different periods. According to the aforesaid study, hotel customer satisfaction and its influencing factors have changed significantly during the pandemic;hotel customer satisfaction during the pandemic is mainly influenced by service quality. Accordingly, strategies are proposed for hotel managers to improve their customer satisfaction during the COVID-19.
Social Psychology and Social Anthropology [UU485]; Tourism and Travel [UU700]; Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics [EE119]; Consumer Economics [EE720]; consumer satisfaction; coronavirus disease 2019; hotels; hospitality industry; on line; web sites; emotions; China; APEC countries; East Asia; Asia; high Human Development Index countries; upper-middle income countries; People's Republic of China
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Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
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2022
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