Sentiment analysis of reviews on cappadocia: The land of beautiful horses in the eyes of tourists

Barış-Tüzemen Özge, Tüzemen Samet and Çelik Ali Kemal ()
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Barış-Tüzemen Özge: Uppsala University, Department of Statistics, Uppsala, Sweden
Tüzemen Samet: Ardahan University, Department of Business Administration, Turkey
Çelik Ali Kemal: Ardahan University, Department of Quantitative Methods, Ardahan, Turkey

European Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Recreation, 2023, vol. 13, issue 2, 188-197

Abstract: The Cappadocia region is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Turkey, and its tourism sector has a significant share in the Turkish economy. In this study, we scraped TripAdvisor reviews of visitors of the Cappadocia region with the Python programming language and used them to analyse public sentiment using various supervised machine learning algorithms. The main purpose of the study is to help create competitive intelligence on both regional and global scales using social media data. For this, we applied Random Forest, Naïve Bayes, and Support Vector Machine methods to classify 4,770 reviews and get insights about the visitors’ perspectives. Results show that the majority of the tourists (90%) had a positive experience during their visit. Most of the complaints focused on the attitudes of staff members. In addition, all three supervised machine learning methods achieved high accuracy in their classification of the reviews. This study is significant in terms of providing a meaningful database for understanding visitor comments, the most important data for the development of tourism in the region, through state-of-the-art machine learning methods, and to direct improvements accordingly.

Keywords: Sentiment Analysis; Supervised Machine Learning; Tourism Industry; Cappadocia; Random Forest; Naïve Bayes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.2478/ejthr-2023-0015

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