Discovery of factors affecting tourists' fine dining experiences at five-star hotel restaurants in Istanbul
ISSN: 0007-070X
Article publication date: 30 June 2021
Issue publication date: 3 January 2022
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to discover the factors affecting customer delight, satisfaction and dissatisfaction in fine dining experiences (FDEs).
Design/methodology/approach
Online user generated 2,585 reviews on TripAdvisor for 46 five-star hotel restaurants operating in Istanbul were analyzed with the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) algorithm.
Findings
LDA created nine, eight and seven topics for delight, satisfaction and dissatisfaction, respectively. The most salient topics for customer delight, satisfaction and dissatisfaction in FDEs are staff (17.3%), view (19%), and food quality (23%), respectively.
Originality/value
This study is one of the few studies investigating customer delight and satisfaction together. The study shows that FDEs can be analyzed with text mining techniques. Moreover, the study contributes to the literature on customer delight by adding staff topic as an antecedent.
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Acknowledgements
Funding: No funding was received for his research.
Conflicts of interest: The authors declare no conflict of interests.
Citation
Aktas-Polat, S. and Polat, S. (2022), "Discovery of factors affecting tourists' fine dining experiences at five-star hotel restaurants in Istanbul", British Food Journal, Vol. 124 No. 1, pp. 221-238. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-02-2021-0138
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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