Destination image analysis and marketing strategies in emerging panda tourism: a cross-cultural perspective

Zuo Wang, Piyachat Udomwong, Jing Fu and Pintusorn Onpium

Cogent Business & Management, 2024, vol. 11, issue 1, 2364837

Abstract: The burgeoning panda tourism market in China is attracting an increasing number of domestic and international tourists. This study focuses on the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding as a case study and utilizes Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) modeling and topic-based sentiment analysis to conduct text mining on online travel reviews in both English and Chinese languages. LDA modeling was employed to identify topics within online reviews, with a subsequent evaluation of the importance of each topic. Furthermore, topic-based sentiment analysis was conducted to assess the performance of different topics. Through importance-performance analysis, this study interprets the destination image disparities between English and Chinese reviews from a cross-cultural perspective. The research findings validate the effectiveness of destination image analysis methods, providing valuable insights for tailoring distinct destination marketing strategies that target tourists from diverse linguistic backgrounds.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/23311975.2024.2364837

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