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Marketing Management in the Hotel Industry: A Systematic Literature Review by Using Text Mining

by
Jeou-Shyan Horng
1,
Chih-Hsing Liu
2,
Sheng-Fang Chou
3,
Tai-Yi Yu
4 and
Da-Chian Hu
1,*
1
Department of Food and Beverage, Shih Chien University, Taipei 104336, Taiwan
2
Department of Tourism Management, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 811532, Taiwan
3
Department of Hospitality Management, Ming Chuan University, Taoyuan 333321, Taiwan
4
Department of Risk Management and Insurance, Ming Chuan University, Taipei 111005, Taiwan
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2022, 14(4), 2344; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14042344
Submission received: 26 November 2021 / Revised: 25 January 2022 / Accepted: 14 February 2022 / Published: 18 February 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data and Marketing Strategy in Sustainable Tourism and Hospitality Research)
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The current research is a systematic review of the literature on hotel marketing management that provides evidence that hotel marketing management contributes to organizational performance and satisfaction, and provides insights into how hotel operators can successfully implement it. This systematic review of the literature is based on the analysis of 417 papers via a text-mining methodology. Through cluster analysis, we divided the literature on hotel marketing management into four clusters, namely, literature regarding marketing reviews and frameworks, marketing strategies, services, and customers. These results pointed to some potential directions for future research in each cluster. This research can benefit researchers studying the current topics in the hotel marketing management field and help them recognize potential research areas. Additionally, it enables hoteliers to understand the benefits and processes of hotel marketing and defines the key elements of implementing a successful marketing campaign.

1. Introduction

Due to the continuous evolution of marketing theory in the hotel industry during the past decade, more and more relevant studies have been conducted. Whether they are related to theoretical innovation or the evolution of marketing tools, the hotel industry has made many changes in terms of marketing. However, there have been many relevant studies on hotel marketing, and the related knowledge system is still fragmented. To understand the knowledge context of hotel marketing, past studies have tried to review the relevant literature from different perspectives. A previous review by Bowen and Sparks [1] focused on hospitality marketing and reviewed eight major journals from 1990 to 1997 and provided future research directions. Oh [2] reviewed the development of hotel and tourism marketing research in eight journals from 2002 to 2003 and provided future research directions. Svensson et al. [3] selected six journals in the field of tourism and hospitality based on journal rankings and reviewed the empirical characteristics from 2000 to 2007. Dev et al. [4] reviewed the research on hospitality marketing published in Cornell Hospitality Quarterly over the past 50 years and used citation analysis to find the most influential articles published in Cornell Hospitality Quarterly every 10 years. They found that during the 2010s, the changes introduced by electronic media continued, the most notable of which was the decline of printed media and the rise of social media. Yoo et al. [5] examined the progress of hotel marketing research in terms of subject areas, industry applications, and methodologies over the past decade, and they identified significant trends in hotel marketing research.
To date, the previous literature in hotel marketing highlights the contribution of future directions [2] and finds the most influential articles in specific journals [4]. However, there are still research gaps to be addressed. First, most studies were from before 2015 and few review articles on hotel marketing have been published during recent years [1,2,3], especially regarding the marketing tools that have undergone tremendous changes. For example, data-oriented marketing [6], digital marketing [7,8], social media marketing [9], online celebrity marketing [10], and sustainable marketing [11,12] have all emerged recently. It is necessary to conduct a comprehensive review of the development trends and marketing tools in hotel marketing in recent years. Second, although past studies of hotel marketing have focused on hospitality journals, the number of journals and articles used was low, which led to undergeneralized findings and misleading outputs [1,2]. This research reviews 27 tourism and hospitality journals included in the Web of Science (WOS) database from 2010 to 2020; these journals contain 4000 articles. Compared with previous related studies, this research is superior to past research in terms of the number of articles included and the year of publication. Furthermore, in the highly competitive environment of the hotel industry, discovering the context and trends in the relevant literature is of great help to researchers and practitioners. Third, bibliometrics were mostly used in the previous review articles. This research uses text mining to conduct literature analysis. Using text mining and topic modeling, this study extracts concepts and dimensions from a large set of articles automatically and systematically. This analysis method is particularly suitable for finding unbiased and content-oriented patterns in complex situations.
Most of the previous studies in this field only described the development of hotel marketing or focused on specific topics, and they failed to develop a comprehensive framework for hotel industry marketing. Furthermore, few review articles on hotel marketing have been published in recent years, especially regarding the marketing tools that have undergone tremendous changes. For example, data-oriented marketing, digital marketing, social marketing, and online celebrity marketing have all emerged recently. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a framework that can be used by hotel practitioners for marketing in the future. In addition, for academics, reviewing the literature can also reveal the current trends in hotel marketing and thus provide directions for future empirical research.
The previous review articles on hotel marketing were mostly published before 2015, and there are less than 200 of them. This research reviews 27 tourism and hospitality journals included in the Web of Science (WOS) database from 2010 to 2020; these journals contain 4000 articles. Compared with previous related studies, this research is superior to the past in terms of the number of articles included and the year of publication. Furthermore, in the highly competitive environment of the hotel industry, discovering the context and trends in the relevant literature is of great help to researchers and practitioners.
In terms of analysis tools, bibliometrics were mostly used in the previous review articles. This research uses text mining to conduct a literature analysis. Using text mining and topic modeling, this study extracts concepts and dimensions from a large set of articles automatically and systematically. This analysis method is particularly suitable for finding unbiased and content-oriented patterns in complex situations [13].
In view of the above information, a broader stance needs to be taken when examining this topic. The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive overview of the literature on hotel marketing management. Moreover, this study aims to illustrate the above-mentioned perspective regarding hotel marketing management. Through the research in this literature review, companies can better understand how to achieve organizational goals through hotel marketing management. In addition, researchers can consider the results of this study to identify future research trends in hotel marketing management. Finally, this study utilizes text mining, which allows for higher reliability and validity of the results [14,15].

2. Theoretical Background

Research on a given topic over time through incremental learning is the cornerstone for future research directions [16]. A specific topic usually needs a clear definition to avoid any confusing interpretation. In marketing management, in response to the recent changes in the industrial environment and consumer preferences, marketing strategies and marketing tools have evolved. According to Kolter’s definition, while Marketing 1.0 is based on product features, the core of Marketing 2.0 is customer satisfaction. and Marketing 3.0 is based on product features and customer satisfaction with the addition of people. Due to this added value, companies that successfully achieve Marketing 3.0 usually attract a group of fans. The most important aspect of Marketing 4.0 is how the development of digital innovations has changed marketing. The superstructure that originally controlled part of a firm’s resources in the past has gradually been diluted by more horizontal power. In this world, when the power of a community surpasses that of individuals, customers become stronger, and they are more vocal and unafraid of large companies or brands; additionally, they love to share everything, whether good or bad. Social circles become the main source of influence, and they are far better than external marketing communication methods. Therefore, new marketing models such as word-of-mouth marketing [17,18,19,20], social media marketing [21,22,23,24], online celebrity marketing [25], and experience marketing [26,27,28,29] have emerged.
The sources of big data are many faceted, including mobile transactions, internet traffic (e.g., clickstreams), social media, and user-generated content. These data are recorded on purpose through sensors and transaction records [30]. The purpose of big data analysis is to generate new insights that can meaningfully make up for the shortcomings of traditional statistical data, surveys, and archive data sources, and they are in real time. The use of Google search queries to detect social epidemics is a classic example of the application of big data analytics [31]. As demonstrated by Boyd and Crawford [32], big data analysis redefines the composition of knowledge, leading to changes in epistemology. Thus, rather than being viewed as a uniform method, big data analysis can be regarded as a new research paradigm that uses a variety of analytical tools and makes inferences about reality from large amounts of data. Although big data analysis cannot be used for hypothesis verification, it is possible to explore new models or predict future trends by analyzing data [33]. Although big data is regarded as a new method of knowledge creation, the problems that may produce spurious correlations cannot be ignored. Therefore, scholars calling for the adoption of big data methods must also rely on theory [32].

3. Methodology

Literature review research has three elements: developing methods in a systematic way, providing detailed analysis procedures, and ensuring comprehensiveness by providing a spectrum of relevant research. In this way, other scholars can use the same method to replicate a given study [34].
According to Tranfield et al. [35], we identified published studies on hotel marketing management. There are three steps in this process: planning the review, conducting the review, and reporting and disseminating the results. These steps have been used in many review articles [36,37]. Figure 1 shows the research process.

3.1. Planning the Review

During the planning stage, the subjects in the literature were examined at a high level for meaningful operational definitions and the main concepts related to the hospitality field. This stage of the process was repeated until the results reached convergence.

3.2. Conducting the Review

The tasks related to conducting the review included a literature search to evaluate and extract the most relevant articles for synthesizing the research framework [35]. This stage can be subdivided into the following stages.

3.3. Sample Selection

We began to collect documents from the Web of Science database (WoS) in October 2020. The criteria that we used are as follows: The article needed to have been published in English, the article needed to have gone through a peer review process, and the research domain was limited to tourism and hospitality. A total of 4000 research articles were collected. In the second step, we employed the abstracts of the documents as our screening criteria. We only selected articles that mentioned marketing, hotels, and hospitality in the abstract. There were 417 studies left at this stage, which is the total number of articles that were analyzed through text mining.

3.4. Research Synthesis

This stage integrated the word segmentation results from our examination of the abstracts into possible topics. In this stage, we mainly used the quantitative content analysis method (QCA) for text exploration [38]. The employed research tool uses Python. The advantage of using Python is that there are ready-made kits that provide the relevant quantitative indicators and allow us to verify the quality of our results and replicability of our findings. Since there are other machine learning packages for Python, we could further analyze our results and present them visually.
In the first step of text mining, we excluded stop words, punctuation marks, and other meaningless symbols, as well as common roots and high-frequency words such as “this”, “is”, “research”, “paper”, and “analysis”. Text mining provides a quick, labor-saving, and accurate way to extract the keywords from the topics of all the documents; however, the disadvantage of this method is that we could not perform further classification. Therefore, after completing the word segmentation and term frequency matrix, we presented and explained the results through a cluster analysis and our judgment of industry domain knowledge and expert experience.
Agrawal et al. [39] pointed out that finding association rules is an important data-mining subject, and there have been quite a few studies using association rules to solve data-mining problems. An association rule is mainly used to determine the relationship between items or features in the database. For example, in the shopping process, if you buy item X and also buy item Y, there is a relationship between the two items. It is useful for decision-makers to have this information. Therefore, analyzing random data and finding out the synchronization relationship is the purpose of the association rule algorithm. In this study, the following association rules were defined [40].

3.5. Reporting and Dissemination

The third step used descriptive statistics to present different views and topics in the literature. Figure 2 focuses on the mainstream research presented in the field of hotel marketing management from 2010 to 2020.

4. Findings

This study used QCA to identify the most frequent terms in the literature. The frequencies and percentage of terms that appeared in the articles are shown in Table 1, and the Term Frequency–Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) was used to identify the words that occurred the most frequently and that were relevant to the context [41]. As expected, “hospitality” and “tourism” were among the most frequently occurring terms. Surprisingly, “brand” and “experience” were among the top 10 most frequently occurring terms, which shows the high level of academic interest in brand management and experience marketing in the hotel industry [26]. The term frequency list also revealed that social media marketing is a mainstream marketing tool in the hotel industry [42]. In terms of the measurement of marketing performance, service quality, loyalty, and satisfaction were still the critical indicators used in most studies [43].
In this study, the top 50 TF-IDF weighted terms were subjected to a two-stage cluster residual analysis (Figure 3). After a hierarchical cluster analysis method was applied, the number of clusters was two, three, and four, and the total residuals decreased by 9%, 5%, and 4.6%, respectively. When the number of clusters was five, the total residual error decreased by 2%. For the top 50 terms, the average interpretation degree of each variable was 4.6%. Therefore, by increasing the number of clusters from four to five, the degree of explanation increased by less than 4.6%. Therefore, we believe that the number of clusters can be set to four while performing the second stage of cluster analysis with the K-means approach. Therefore, during the second stage of cluster analysis, the number of clusters was directly set to four, and K-means cluster analysis was performed.
After the cluster analysis was used to divide the terms into four clusters, each cluster was listed according to the TF-IDF weights of its terms. In Table 2, we show the number of words with high TF-IDF weights as well as the number of articles and their proportions in each cluster. We also used word clouds to visualize the results of each group, which are given in Figure 4, Figure 5, Figure 6 and Figure 7. Figure 8, Figure 9, Figure 10 and Figure 11 showed the relationship between keywords, the thicker the path, the stronger the relationship between the two keywords. The larger a word in a word cloud is, the higher the weight of the TF-IDF of that word. For cluster 1, the number of articles was 98, representing 23.5% of all the articles. The words with the highest TF-IDF weights that appeared in this cluster included “tourism”, “hospitality”, “management”, “tourist”, and “destination”, in that order. There were 122 articles in cluster 2, accounting for 29.25% of the articles examined. The words with high TF-IDF weights that appeared in this cluster included “strategy”, “tourist”, “experience”, “market”, and “hospitality”. In cluster 3, there were 104 articles, accounting for 24.94% of all the articles. In cluster 3, the terms “service”, “performance”, “hospitality”, and “management” had the highest TF-IDF weights. Cluster 4 had 94 articles, accounting for 22.54% of all the articles. The words with high TF-IDF weights in cluster 4 were “consumer”, “brand”, “intention”, and “behavior”.
After clustering, we performed the association rule algorithm to explore the associations between the words in each cluster. As shown in Table 3, we selected the rules with 100% confidence in each cluster. In cluster 1, hospitality was regarded as the consequence variable, and the words related to this term with 100% confidence included “brand”, “framework”, “process”, “tourism”, and “strategy”. In cluster 2, strategy served as the consequence variable, and the only term associated with this term with 100% confidence was “market strategy”. In cluster 3, service was the consequence variable, and the words associated with this term with 100% confidence were “product”, “behavior”, “tourist”, “experience”, “quality”, “hospitality”. In cluster 4, consumers was the consequence variable, and the terms related to this term with 100% confidence were “online review”, “benefit”, and “innovation”.

5. Discussion

This study reviewed the hotel marketing management research published in 27 hospitality journals from 2010 to 2020. The results indicate that 417 published articles were related to hospitality marketing.

5.1. Theoretical Contributions

Firstly, this research is the first attempt to review the articles on the hotel industry. In the past, there have been retrospective articles on the hospitality industry; however, their scope included restaurants, catering, and other related industries. In this research, only relevant literature on marketing topics in the hotel industry was reviewed, and the results better describe the trend of marketing research for the hotel industry than other reviews and can serve as a better reference for this industry. This study found that hotel marketing management research from the past 10 years can be divided into four major categories: marketing framework, marketing strategy, service, and consumer behavior. Articles on marketing framework discussed hospitality marketing [4], consumer value [44], and social media [45]. Future researchers who want to write retrospective documents can refer to our work to find a specific group of articles. If hoteliers want to learn more about a single marketing topic, they can refer to related articles. In marketing strategy, social media marketing and sustainable marketing have been common marketing strategies in recent years. For example, Hsu [46] used Facebook to develop digital marketing strategies for Taiwanese restaurants, Leun et al. [42] used message theory to explore social media marketing among hotels, Xiong and Hu [47] examined viral marketing and discussed discount strategies in restaurants, and Sellers-Rubio and Calderón-Martínez [48] discussed the relationship between brand strategy and advertising expenditure. Hussain et al. [49] found that sustainable marketing assets have positive and significant effects on market performance. In addition, service is still the key to successful hotel marketing. For example, Chang [50] discussed the relationship between servicescape and customer behavioral intentions. Choi et al. [51] used the stressor–strain–outcome model as the basis to verify the relationship between emotional exhaustion, customer orientation, and service recovery performance. Ma et al. [52] found that hotel service engagement significantly informed subsequent product purchases. Understanding consumer behavior through big data has also been a research trend in recent years. Kim et al. [53] explored the gender and expertise differences in consumers’ motivations for reading hotel online reviews. Li et al. [54] investigated the effectiveness of meta discourse and interpretation in dealing with negative reviews using two important linguistic features. Mariani and Predvoditeleva [55] examined the impact of cultural traits and perceived experiences in the context of Russian hotels’ online review ratings. Second, most of the previous review articles only focused on specific marketing issues—for example, smartphones in tourism and hospitality marketing [56], personality [57], sustainability strategies [58], and brand management [59]. This research not only focused a specific topic but also addressed the entirety of hotel marketing management. Through such a comprehensive review, we can better understand the overall picture and evolution of hotel marketing. Third, the previous review studies on hospitality marketing were conducted a decade ago [5]. The time period for this study, namely, between 2010 and 2020, could fill the gap in the literature regarding this decade. Finally, the previous retrospective articles on tourism and hospitality mostly employed bibliometrics [5,59]. This research is the first to adopt text mining to review articles. The advantage of using text mining is that data can be more comprehensively collected and analyzed. Moreover, due to the use of word segmentation, additional details can be found in the examined research.

5.2. Practical Contributions

This research provides some practical implications for hotel operators. First, more and more studies are being conducted on the application of big data in marketing management, especially the monitoring of social media and the analysis of online reviews through text mining. By conducting text mining, hotel operators can discover new market segments [60], implement membership marketing [61], conduct word-of-mouth marketing [62], enhance customer satisfaction [63], and increase purchase intention [63]. Although big data analysis tools have been widely used in other industries, the use of big data by hotel operators to support marketing decisions still needs to be strengthened. Furthermore, hoteliers can increase their customer value by creating unique experiences. Lahouel and Montargot [26] adopted strategic experiential modules and service encounters to discuss how luxury hotels can provide children with a memorable experience. Lee et al. [64] used big data and business intelligence technology to study the impact of customers’ multi-sensory service experience on customer satisfaction through cognitive effort and emotional evaluation. Finally, since consumers are gradually shifting their information sources from mass media to social media and online communities [10], hoteliers can use social media to enhance sustainable marketing [65].

5.3. Limitations and Future Research

The research limitations of this study are as follows. Some influential research on hotel marketing may only be written in books or published in non-SSCI index journals, and conference articles are not included in this research database. Furthermore, this research refers to articles that include “marketing”, “restaurant”, and “hospitality” in the abstract. This omitted the study of closely related constructions or constructions that serve as the basis of marketing research. Moreover, we did not search for keywords related to management, business, or other fields. Using these keywords to search for management and business journals and build a database, one can collect more research on marketing management applications in different industries, but this research would not necessarily have been applicable to the hotel industry; thus, this article only focused on articles in the hotel field. Future empirical research can focus on marketing at different levels of an organization. Research on a specific level provides the ability to draw conclusions in a specific context, as well as an explanation of the actions and practices of roles and responsibilities at a specific organizational level. In this context, existing marketing theories play a critical role because they provide a valuable starting point for understanding the specific level of hotel marketing. We believe that we should explore the value of existing theories that represent hotel marketing on a multi-perspective and cross-functional level. This would enable the hotel marketing management field to overcome overspecialization and fragmentation and establish a good theoretical foundation, and continue to open up innovation and develop constructive ideas.

6. Conclusions

This study reviewed the literature on marketing management in the hotel industry from 2010 to 2020 in an attempt to summarize research trends and suggest directions for future research. In contrast to the bibliometric approach often used in the past, this study performed text mining and an analysis of 417 papers, and we performed the association rule algorithm to explore the associations between the words in each cluster. Through cluster analysis, we found that marketing management research can be divided into four groups, namely, literature regarding marketing reviews and frameworks, marketing strategies, services, and customers. By using the association rule algorithm, we further explored the associations between the words in each cluster. Finally, based on the results of this study, we suggested directions for future scholarly marketing research.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, J.-S.H., C.-H.L., S.-F.C., T.-Y.Y. and D.-C.H.; methodology, T.-Y.Y., C.-H.L. and D.-C.H.; software, T.-Y.Y. and D.-C.H.; validation, J.-S.H., C.-H.L., S.-F.C., T.-Y.Y. and D.-C.H.; formal analysis, T.-Y.Y. and D.-C.H.; investigation, J.-S.H., T.-Y.Y. and D.-C.H.; resources, J.-S.H., C.-H.L., S.-F.C., T.-Y.Y. and D.-C.H.; data curation, D.-C.H.; writing—original draft preparation, D.-C.H.; writing—review and editing, J.-S.H. and D.-C.H.; visualization, D.-C.H.; supervision, J.-S.H.; project administration, J.-S.H.; funding acquisition, J.-S.H. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

The authors would like to thank anonymous reviewers for useful suggestions and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan for financial support [Grant number: MOST 109-2511-H-158-004].

Institutional Review Board Statement

Not applicable.

Informed Consent Statement

Not applicable.

Data Availability Statement

Not applicable.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. Steps of the literature review process.
Figure 1. Steps of the literature review process.
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Figure 2. Number of publications per year.
Figure 2. Number of publications per year.
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Figure 3. The relationship between the ratio of the cumulative number of words and the cumulative word frequency ratio.
Figure 3. The relationship between the ratio of the cumulative number of words and the cumulative word frequency ratio.
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Figure 4. Word cloud for cluster 1.
Figure 4. Word cloud for cluster 1.
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Figure 5. Word cloud for cluster 2.
Figure 5. Word cloud for cluster 2.
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Figure 6. Word cloud for cluster 3.
Figure 6. Word cloud for cluster 3.
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Figure 7. Word cloud for cluster 4.
Figure 7. Word cloud for cluster 4.
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Figure 8. Web chart for cluster 1.
Figure 8. Web chart for cluster 1.
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Figure 9. Web chart for cluster 2.
Figure 9. Web chart for cluster 2.
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Figure 10. Web chart for cluster 3.
Figure 10. Web chart for cluster 3.
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Figure 11. Web chart for cluster 4.
Figure 11. Web chart for cluster 4.
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Table 1. Most frequent terms in the literature.
Table 1. Most frequent terms in the literature.
No. Cases% CasesTF-IDF
hospitality2490%49.65
tourism1380%46.74
service1340%39.13
consumer1060%34.89
strategy1430%28.15
management1210%30.89
brand650%28.46
intention770%26.75
performance640%28.71
experience750%26.06
tourist610%24.28
behavior750%22.37
social_media460%23.69
quality620%21.97
market690%21.28
perceived660%19.11
managers770%17.48
loyalty380%18.04
destination460%17.89
environment520%16.75
marketing_strategy700%15.38
satisfaction490%17.18
empirical730%13.82
price350%14.47
product500%13.30
communication420%13.07
framework480%12.95
perceptions450%11.67
benefit430%11.31
effectiveness300%11.24
revenue280%12.22
process430%10.65
international380%11.17
attributes310%10.12
food250%10.54
website210%11.24
innovation210%10.40
trust250%10.22
online_review210%10.60
employees280%10.26
characteristics420%10.15
accommodation240%10.62
decision260%9.71
knowledge360%9.58
internet240%9.01
interviews300%9.56
advertising220%8.36
segments260%9.14
engagement200%9.34
attitudes250%8.51
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Table 2. Terms with high TF-IDF in the clusters.
Table 2. Terms with high TF-IDF in the clusters.
ClusterTerms with High TF-IDFPercentage of Articles (%)
1tourism, hospitality, management, tourist, destination, strategy, experience, framework, consumer, service, environment, market98 (23.50%)
2strategy, tourist, experience, market, hospitality, social_media, perceived, loyalty, price, marketing_strategy, environment, effectiveness122 (29.25%)
3service, performance, hospitality, management, quality, managers, strategy, employees, experience, tourism, satisfaction, market104 (24.94%)
4consumer, brand, intention, behavior, hospitality, social_media, strategy, perceived, loyalty, tourism, online_review, trust, service, communication94 (22.54%)
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Table 3. The results of the association rule.
Table 3. The results of the association rule.
ClusterConsequentAntecedentSupportConfidence
Cluster 1hospitalitybrand11.34100
framework13.4100
process, tourism17.53100
framework, tourism11.34100
strategy, management12.37100
Cluster 2strategymarketing strategy24.59100
Cluster 3serviceproduct10.58100
behavior10.58100
tourist10.58100
experience18.27100
tourism, quality10.58100
experience, hospitality11.54100
Cluster 4consumeronline review10.64100
benefit11.7100
online review, innovation10.64100
benefit, innovation11.7100
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