Application of Machine Learning to Improve Tourism Industry

Author(s):  
Krutibash Nayak ◽  
Saroj Kumar Panigrahy
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1572-1580

Tourism is one of the most important sectors contributing towards the economic growth of India. Big data analytics in the recent times is being applied in the tourism sector for the activities like tourism demand forecasting, prediction of interests of tourists’, identification of tourist attraction elements and behavioural patterns. The major objective of this study is to demonstrate how big data analytics could be applied in predicting the travel behaviour of International and Domestic tourists. The significance of machine learning algorithms and techniques in processing the big data is also important. Thus, the combination of machine learning and big data is the state-of-art method which has been acclaimed internationally. While big data analytics and its application with respect to the tourism industry has attracted few researchers interest in the present times, there have been not much researches on this area of study particularly with respect to the scenario of India. This study intends to describe how big data analytics could be used in forecasting Indian tourists travel behaviour. To add much value to the research this study intends to categorize on what grounds the tourists chose domestic tourism and on what grounds they chose international tourism. The online datasets on places reviews from cities namely Chicago, Beijing, New York, Dubai, San Francisco, London, New Delhi and Shanghai have been gathered and an associative rule mining based algorithm has been applied on the data set in order to attain the objectives of the study


2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yejin Lee ◽  
Dae-Young Kim

Purpose Using the decision tree model, this study aims to understand the online travelers booking behaviors on Expedia.com, by examining influential determinants of online hotel booking, especially for longer-stay travelers. The geographical distance is also considered in understanding the booking behaviors trisecting travel destinations (i.e. Americas, Europe and Asia). Design/methodology/approach The data were obtained from American Statistical Association DataFest and Expedia.com. Based on the US travelers who made hotel reservation on the website, the study used a machine learning algorithm, decision tree, to analyze the influential determinants on hotel booking considering the geographical distance between origin and destination. Findings The results of the findings demonstrate that the choice of package product is the prioritized determinant for longer-stay hotel guests. Several similarities and differences were found from the significant determinants of the decision tree, in accordance with the geographic distance among the Americas, Europe and Asia. Research limitations/implications This paper presents the extension to an existing machine learning environment, and especially to the decision tree model. The findings are anticipated to expand the understanding of online hotel booking and apprehend the influential determinants toward consumers’ decision-making process regarding the relationship between geographical distance and traveler’s hotel staying duration. Originality/value This research brings a meaningful understanding of the hospitality and tourism industry, especially to the realm of machine learning adapted to an online booking website. It provides a unique approach to comprehend and forecast consumer behavior with data mining.


2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Omar Parvez

Purpose Technological innovation has been changing the tourism industry precipitously and making the holiday experience more enjoyable and easier than before. The purpose of this study is to identify the current and future changes by the machine learning (ML) system as artificial intelligence in the hospitality industry. Design/methodology/approach This study has a descriptive research approach because building knowledge on technology and applying this knowledge to a tourism research are still new extensions in social studies, especially in tourism. Findings This research shows the value of using ML in the quality of data, features and algorithms besides stating the difficulties of data analysis in hospitality. This research also provides a comparison of automated ML techniques and the use of a robot for customer services in the hotel. Originality/Value This research contributes to the tourism and technology literature by shedding light on the use of ML in tourism advancement to predict future business conditions, revenue, challenges and also to identify the current trend of tourist demand.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayeh Bagherzadeh ◽  
Sajjad Shokouhyar ◽  
Hamed Jahani ◽  
Marianna Sigala

Purpose Research analyzing online travelers’ reviews has boomed over the past years, but it lacks efficient methodologies that can provide useful end-user value within time and budget. This study aims to contribute to the field by developing and testing a new methodology for sentiment analysis that surpasses the standard dictionary-based method by creating two hotel-specific word lexicons. Design/methodology/approach Big data of hotel customer reviews posted on the TripAdvisor platform were collected and appropriately prepared for conducting a binary sentiment analysis by developing a novel bag-of-words weighted approach. The latter provides a transparent and replicable procedure to prepare, create and assess lexicons for sentiment analysis. This approach resulted in two lexicons (a weighted lexicon, L1 and a manually selected lexicon, L2), which were tested and validated by applying classification accuracy metrics to the TripAdvisor big data. Two popular methodologies (a public dictionary-based method and a complex machine-learning algorithm) were used for comparing the accuracy metrics of the study’s approach for creating the two lexicons. Findings The results of the accuracy metrics confirmed that the study’s methodology significantly outperforms the dictionary-based method in comparison to the machine-learning algorithm method. The findings also provide evidence that the study’s methodology is generalizable for predicting users’ sentiment. Practical implications The study developed and validated a methodology for generating reliable lexicons that can be used for big data analysis aiming to understand and predict customers’ sentiment. The L2 hotel dictionary generated by the study provides a reliable method and a useful tool for analyzing guests’ feedback and enabling managers to understand, anticipate and re-actively respond to customers’ attitudes and changes. The study also proposed a simplified methodology for understanding the sentiment of each user, which, in turn, can be used for conducting comparisons aiming to detect and understand guests’ sentiment changes across time, as well as across users based on their profiles and experiences. Originality/value This study contributes to the field by proposing and testing a new methodology for conducting sentiment analysis that addresses previous methodological limitations, as well as the contextual specificities of the tourism industry. Based on the paper’s literature review, this is the first research study using a bag-of-words approach for conducting a sentiment analysis and creating a field-specific lexicon.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 827-836
Author(s):  
Lathifah Arief ◽  
Tri A Sundara ◽  
Heru Saputra

In the tourism industry, reputation is important information that influence customer behavior. Some services, such as hotels, take advantage of feedback from customers. This research aims to develop a review system by utilizing blockchain and machine learning for sustainable tourism. As proof of concept, a comparison method is carried out between several existing Blockchain networks. The system prototype then implemented using Hyperledger blockchain network, so that measurement of its performance is possible. The results show the feasibility of the blockchain network to be used for a rating system, although several aspects need to be considered in its implementation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2254-2261

Sentiments are the emotions which are communicated among individuals. These are opinions given by people on any item, product or service availed or experience online. This paper discusses that part of research area which involves the analysis of sentiments exchanged by people online that further tells how sentiments and features through online tourist reviews are extracted using deep learning techniques. Tourist behavior can be judged by tourists reviews for various tourist places, hotels and other services provided by tourism industry. The proposed idea of the paper is to show the high efficiency of deep learning techniques like CNN, RNN,LSTM to extract the features online by use of extra hidden layers. Further, comparison of these techniques as well as comparison of these techniques with machine learning classical algorithms like SVM, Naïve Bayes, KNN,RF etc has been done to show that deep learning methods are more efficient than classical machine learning algorithms. The accurate capturing of attitudes of tourists towards tourist places, hotels & other services of tourism industry plays utmost important role to enhance the business model of tourism industry. This can be done through sentiment analysis using deep learning methods efficiently. Classification of polarity will be done by extracting textual features using CNN,RNN,LSTM deep learning algorithms. Extracting features are fed to deep learning classifier to classify the review into either positive, negative or neutral type of reviews. After comparing various deep learning and classical techniques of machine learning, it has been concluded that LSTM,RNN give best results to classify reviews into positive and negative reviews rather than SVM,KNN classical techniques. In this way sentiment analysis has been done and the proposed idea of this research paper is change in the machine learning techniques or methods from classical algorithms to neural network deep learning methods which in future definitely will give better results to analyze deeply the sentiments of tourists to find out the liking and disliking of various tourist places, hotels and related tourism services that will help tourism business industry to work on the gap in existing services provided by them and system can become more efficient in future. Such improved tourism system will give benefits to tourists or users in terms of better services and undoubtedly it will help tourism industry to enhance business in future.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-82
Author(s):  
Navoneel Chakrabarty

International Tourism has been a very important contributor to a country's economic development. In developing countries like Argentina, Brazil, India etc., the tourism industry plays an important role in the Gross Domestic Product and Foreign Exchange Earnings. Now a days, India has been welcoming a highly impressive number of foreign tourists from all round the globe annually. This study aims at analysing the distribution and trend of foreign tourists visiting India, among the four quarters of a year, given different configurations of Gross Domestic Product and Foreign Exchange Earnings using Machine Learning and Regression Analysis. A 4 headed Machine Learning Model has been constructed and trained independently for the purpose. Finally, the results of the four individually trained sub models are collected together for Trend Anal ysis and Distribution Analysis. This final evaluation is done for the year 2012 post to Model Construction, Training, Tuning and Individual Validations of the 4 sub models. It has been found that the Distribution and Trend Analysis have been almost similar to the Original Distribution and Trends of Foreign Tourists among the four quarters of 2012. This similarity in Distribution Analysis has been shown using visualizations like Pie Chart and that in Trend Analysis has been shown using Line Plots.


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