Differences in Chinese and Western tourists faced with Japanese hospitality: a natural language processing approach

Elisa Claire Alemán Carreón (), Hugo Alberto Mendoza España (), Hirofumi Nonaka () and Toru Hiraoka ()
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Elisa Claire Alemán Carreón: Nagaoka University of Technology
Hugo Alberto Mendoza España: Nagaoka University of Technology
Hirofumi Nonaka: Nagaoka University of Technology
Toru Hiraoka: University of Nagasaki

Information Technology & Tourism, 2021, vol. 23, issue 3, No 4, 438 pages

Abstract: Abstract Since culture influences expectations, perceptions, and satisfaction, a cross-culture study is necessary to understand the differences between Japan’s biggest tourist populations, Chinese and Western tourists. However, with ever-increasing customer populations, this is hard to accomplish without extensive customer base studies. There is a need for an automated method for identifying these expectations at a large scale. For this, we used a data-driven approach to our analysis. Our study analyzed their satisfaction factors comparing soft attributes, such as service, with hard attributes, such as location and facilities, and studied different price ranges. We collected hotel reviews and extracted keywords to classify the sentiment of sentences with an SVC. We then used dependency parsing and part-of-speech tagging to extract nouns tied to positive adjectives. We found that Chinese tourists consider room quality more than hospitality, whereas Westerners are delighted more by staff behavior. Furthermore, the lack of a Chinese-friendly environment for Chinese customers and cigarette smell for Western ones can be disappointing factors of their stay. As one of the first studies in the tourism field to use the high-standard Japanese hospitality environment for this analysis, our cross-cultural study contributes to both the theoretical understanding of satisfaction and suggests practical applications and strategies for hotel managers.

Keywords: Sentiment analysis; Hotels and lodging; Text mining; Chinese; English; Satisfaction and dissatisfaction factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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