Research Article

What Do Customers Share About Eating-Out on Facebook?

Volume: 10 Number: 3 September 1, 2022
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What Do Customers Share About Eating-Out on Facebook?

Abstract

Discussing the eating-out experience is long-lasting among people around the world, and with the advent of the internet, customers change the way of sharing dining experience online. This study aims to identify the dominant topics and emotional dimensions on Facebook status updates of large-scale individual accounts, as well as the topic variance by users’ age and gender. With an adaption of the myPersonality dataset on Facebook, topic modeling and emotion analysis are conducted. Findings indicate that five primary topics are composed of food, happy time, dining experience, coffee time, and people. Males and females demonstrate a significant difference in the theme of people. Positive emotional dimensions generally show stronger extents than the negative ones. This study is a pioneer of exploring Facebook individual accounts in the hospitality and tourism field and expands industry practitioners’ comprehension of dominant dining-out themes and emotional responses among distinct consumer groups.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Tourism (Other)

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

September 1, 2022

Submission Date

April 21, 2021

Acceptance Date

August 16, 2021

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Volume: 10 Number: 3

APA
Tang, L., Wang, X., Kim, E., & Luo, Y. (2022). What Do Customers Share About Eating-Out on Facebook? Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research (AHTR), 10(3), 448-479. https://doi.org/10.30519/ahtr.923881
AMA
1.Tang L, Wang X, Kim E, Luo Y. What Do Customers Share About Eating-Out on Facebook? Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research (AHTR). 2022;10(3):448-479. doi:10.30519/ahtr.923881
Chicago
Tang, Liang, Xi Wang, Eojina Kim, and Yi Luo. 2022. “What Do Customers Share About Eating-Out on Facebook?”. Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research (AHTR) 10 (3): 448-79. https://doi.org/10.30519/ahtr.923881.
EndNote
Tang L, Wang X, Kim E, Luo Y (September 1, 2022) What Do Customers Share About Eating-Out on Facebook? Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research (AHTR) 10 3 448–479.
IEEE
[1]L. Tang, X. Wang, E. Kim, and Y. Luo, “What Do Customers Share About Eating-Out on Facebook?”, Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research (AHTR), vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 448–479, Sept. 2022, doi: 10.30519/ahtr.923881.
ISNAD
Tang, Liang - Wang, Xi - Kim, Eojina - Luo, Yi. “What Do Customers Share About Eating-Out on Facebook?”. Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research (AHTR) 10/3 (September 1, 2022): 448-479. https://doi.org/10.30519/ahtr.923881.
JAMA
1.Tang L, Wang X, Kim E, Luo Y. What Do Customers Share About Eating-Out on Facebook? Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research (AHTR). 2022;10:448–479.
MLA
Tang, Liang, et al. “What Do Customers Share About Eating-Out on Facebook?”. Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research (AHTR), vol. 10, no. 3, Sept. 2022, pp. 448-79, doi:10.30519/ahtr.923881.
Vancouver
1.Liang Tang, Xi Wang, Eojina Kim, Yi Luo. What Do Customers Share About Eating-Out on Facebook? Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research (AHTR). 2022 Sep. 1;10(3):448-79. doi:10.30519/ahtr.923881

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