Solo Consumption – A machine learning approach

[EN] This study aims at conceptualizing the solo tourism consumption journey. We use a semisupervised machine learning approach and analyze more than 27,000 tweets. The seed sets extraction, seed and topic confidence and model fit evaluations will provide us with the dimension of solo tourism concep...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Manthiou, Aikaterini, Luong, Van Ha, Klaus, Phil
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/201798
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/201798
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Solo tourism
Semi-supervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)
Machine learning approach
Tweets
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Sumario:[EN] This study aims at conceptualizing the solo tourism consumption journey. We use a semisupervised machine learning approach and analyze more than 27,000 tweets. The seed sets extraction, seed and topic confidence and model fit evaluations will provide us with the dimension of solo tourism conceptualization.The results will reveal how consumers perceive solo tourism consumption. This study provides scholars and managers with an evidencebased solo consumption conceptualization, as well as with a marketing, psychological, and operation tool to manage the solo consumer segment.