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Clustering Travelers’ Lifestyle Destination Image from Five Asian Traveler-Generated Content

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  • Ping-Heng Tsai

    (Department of Finance, Chihlee University of Technology, New Taipei City 220, Taiwan)

  • Chia-Chi Hsaio

    (Department of Information Management, Yuan-Ze University, Taoyuan City 320, Taiwan)

  • Yan-Ru Li

    (Department of Digital and Humanities, Aletheia University, New Taipei City 251, Taiwan)

  • Chun-Chieh Lin

    (Department of Information Management, National Taipei University of Business, Taipei 100, Taiwan)

Abstract

This study examines the destination image and lifestyle experience via traveler-generated comments. To understand the travelers’ behavior, we first established a crawler, which helps us to gather the travelers’ comments from tourism social media. After conducting a content analysis, text mining, and factor analysis of a sampling of 23,019 travelers’ comments, this study found that travelers based on their activities and experiences constructed their image. Additionally, we also found that the travelers’ emotions and impressions showed up with their images. From the result of factor analysis, we extract the 13 clustering results and perform the one-way ANOVA with Scheffe’s method to compare the difference among each group. Finally, we used the related sentences to draw a relation map to explain the inner difference between travelers. This study’s results suggest that traveler-generated comments can be especially useful for destination image analysis and market segments in tourism marketing and management. This study also highlights the importance of understanding destination image and marketing segment from the travelers’ comments and challenges for those in tourism marketing to narrow the gap.

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  • Ping-Heng Tsai & Chia-Chi Hsaio & Yan-Ru Li & Chun-Chieh Lin, 2023. "Clustering Travelers’ Lifestyle Destination Image from Five Asian Traveler-Generated Content," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(7), pages 1-18, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:7:p:5887-:d:1109786
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    1. Estela Marine-Roig, 2019. "Destination Image Analytics Through Traveller-Generated Content," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(12), pages 1-23, June.
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