Title
A hybrid machine learning approach to hotel sales rank prediction
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
University of Bradford
Publisher(s)
Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Abstract
One of the challenges that the hospitality and tourism industry faces is determining the best-rated and ideal hotels for people with customized preferences. Users belong to various demographic groups, and the factors they consider when selecting a hotel depend on their priorities at the time. Therefore, to provide appropriate recommendations tailored to the individual preferences of users, forecasting customer demand is required, for which hotel sales rank prediction models are to be developed. In this regard, the present paper aims to develop a customized hotel recommendation model for sales rank prediction that considers factors like distance from a strategic location, online user ratings, word-of-mouth rating, hotel tariff, and customer reviews, using the aggregated data set of Indian hotels from trivago.com. Results show that the Artificial Neural Network algorithm predicts sales rank better than the Random Forest and Gradient Boosting algorithms. Implications for practice are provided.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Otras ciencias sociales
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85134575387
Source
Journal of the Operational Research Society
ISSN of the container
01605682
Sponsor(s)
The authors would like to thank the Editor, Associate Editor, and the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and suggestions made on the previous versions of this manuscript. Open Access funding provided by the Qatar National Library.
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