Does the Implementation of Robots in Hotels Influence the Overall TripAdvisor Rating? A Text Mining Analysis from the Industry 5.0 Approach

This research explores the relationship between customers’ emotions and sentiments generated by the interaction with robots in hotels and the potential effect on the hotel’s rating. To this end, text mining techniques are applied to TripAdvisor reviews by using Python 3.9.4. The results indicate a r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Orea-Giner, Alicia, Fuentes-Moraleda, Laura, Villacé-Molinero, Teresa, Muñoz-Mazón, Ana, Calero-Sanz, Jorge
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Repositorio:BURJC-Digital. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
OAI Identifier:oai:burjcdigital.urjc.es:10115/24443
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10115/24443
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Human-robot interaction
Sentiment analysis
Robots functionality
Traveller
TripAdvisor rating
Text mining
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Sumario:This research explores the relationship between customers’ emotions and sentiments generated by the interaction with robots in hotels and the potential effect on the hotel’s rating. To this end, text mining techniques are applied to TripAdvisor reviews by using Python 3.9.4. The results indicate a relationship between the emotions and sentiments detected in the reviews, the robots’ functional typologies and traveller categories. The originality of this research is mainly found in the quantification of the relationship between robot functionality, traveller type and rating given to the hotel considering the emotions and sentiments that emerge from the functional dimension of robots implemented in hotels.