%A Yang Haixia,Wu Weifang,Sun Hanlin %T Analyzing Travelers’ Preferences for Hotels Based on Structural Topic Model %0 Journal Article %D 2016 %J Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery %R 10.11925/infotech.1003-3513.2016.09.06 %P 51-57 %V 32 %N 9 %U {https://manu44.magtech.com.cn/Jwk_infotech_wk3/CN/abstract/article_4267.shtml} %8 2016-09-25 %X

[Objective] This paper aims to identify various types of travelers’ preferences for hotel services. [Methods] First, we classified the hotels as luxury and budget ones, and then divided the travelers into five categories. Second, we analyzed individual traveler’s rating behaviors on the hotel review website TripAdvisor. Finally, we analyzed the latent topics of hotel reviews with the help of Structure Topic Model (STM) to identify travellers’ preferences for hotel services. [Results] We found that the average rating scores of luxury hotels were higher than the budget ones and travelers did have different preferences for hotel services. [Limitations] The dataset for our study was not large enough. We did not consider the impacts of gender and age to hotel rating and online review contents. [Conclusions] Analyzing travelers’ preferences for hotels could help both the managers and travelers make right decisions.