Tourism Products And Sentiment Analysis, Ibrahim A. Ozen

University of South Florida (USF) M3 Publishing

OVERVIEW

Reviews about tourism products in online environments are an important data source for tourism businesses, destination managements and tourists. Tourist reviews online are completely unbiased reviews created voluntarily by tourists. Therefore, important feedback is provided for tourism businesses and destinations in the evaluation of tourism products. Collecting and analyzing tourist comments and transforming them into strategic information will create an important competitive power. Sentiment analysis, which is a sub-field of text mining, is a field of study that analyzes people’s ideas and thoughts about tourism products and services from text-based comments. Sentiment analysis can be applied at the document …