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Due to the continuous evolution of marketing theory in the hotel industry during the past decade, more and more relevant studies have been conducted. Whether they are related to theoretical innovation or the evolution of marketing tools, the hotel industry has made many changes in terms of marketing. However, there have been many relevant studies on hotel marketing, and the related knowledge system is still fragmented.

marketing management hotel industry systematic review text mining

1. Introduction

To understand the knowledge context of hotel marketing, past studies have tried to review the relevant literature from different perspectives. A previous review by Bowen and Sparks [1] focused on hospitality marketing and reviewed eight major journals from 1990 to 1997 and provided future research directions. Oh [2] reviewed the development of hotel and tourism marketing research in eight journals from 2002 to 2003 and provided future research directions. Svensson et al. [3] selected six journals in the field of tourism and hospitality based on journal rankings and reviewed the empirical characteristics from 2000 to 2007. Dev et al. [4] reviewed the research on hospitality marketing published in Cornell Hospitality Quarterly over the past 50 years and used citation analysis to find the most influential articles published in Cornell Hospitality Quarterly every 10 years. They found that during the 2010s, the changes introduced by electronic media continued, the most notable of which was the decline of printed media and the rise of social media. Yoo et al. [5] examined the progress of hotel marketing research in terms of subject areas, industry applications, and methodologies over the past decade, and they identified significant trends in hotel marketing research.
To date, the previous literature in hotel marketing highlights the contribution of future directions [2] and finds the most influential articles in specific journals [4]. However, there are still research gaps to be addressed. First, most studies were from before 2015 and few review articles on hotel marketing have been published during recent years [1][2][3], especially regarding the marketing tools that have undergone tremendous changes. For example, data-oriented marketing [6], digital marketing [7][8], social media marketing [9], online celebrity marketing [10], and sustainable marketing [11][12] have all emerged recently. It is necessary to conduct a comprehensive review of the development trends and marketing tools in hotel marketing in recent years. Second, although past studies of hotel marketing have focused on hospitality journals, the number of journals and articles used was low, which led to undergeneralized findings and misleading outputs [1][2]. This research reviews 27 tourism and hospitality journals included in the Web of Science (WOS) database from 2010 to 2020; these journals contain 4000 articles. Compared with previous related studies, this research is superior to past research in terms of the number of articles included and the year of publication. Furthermore, in the highly competitive environment of the hotel industry, discovering the context and trends in the relevant literature is of great help to researchers and practitioners. Third, bibliometrics were mostly used in the previous review articles. This research uses text mining to conduct literature analysis. Using text mining and topic modeling, this study extracts concepts and dimensions from a large set of articles automatically and systematically. This analysis method is particularly suitable for finding unbiased and content-oriented patterns in complex situations.
Most of the previous studies in this field only described the development of hotel marketing or focused on specific topics, and they failed to develop a comprehensive framework for hotel industry marketing. Furthermore, few review articles on hotel marketing have been published in recent years, especially regarding the marketing tools that have undergone tremendous changes. For example, data-oriented marketing, digital marketing, social marketing, and online celebrity marketing have all emerged recently. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a framework that can be used by hotel practitioners for marketing in the future. In addition, for academics, reviewing the literature can also reveal the current trends in hotel marketing and thus provide directions for future empirical research.
The previous review articles on hotel marketing were mostly published before 2015, and there are less than 200 of them. This research reviews 27 tourism and hospitality journals included in the Web of Science (WOS) database from 2010 to 2020; these journals contain 4000 articles. Compared with previous related studies, this research is superior to the past in terms of the number of articles included and the year of publication. Furthermore, in the highly competitive environment of the hotel industry, discovering the context and trends in the relevant literature is of great help to researchers and practitioners.
In terms of analysis tools, bibliometrics were mostly used in the previous review articles. This research uses text mining to conduct a literature analysis. Using text mining and topic modeling, this study extracts concepts and dimensions from a large set of articles automatically and systematically. This analysis method is particularly suitable for finding unbiased and content-oriented patterns in complex situations [13].

2. Theoretical Background

Research on a given topic over time through incremental learning is the cornerstone for future research directions [14]. A specific topic usually needs a clear definition to avoid any confusing interpretation. In marketing management, in response to the recent changes in the industrial environment and consumer preferences, marketing strategies and marketing tools have evolved. According to Kolter’s definition, while Marketing 1.0 is based on product features, the core of Marketing 2.0 is customer satisfaction. and Marketing 3.0 is based on product features and customer satisfaction with the addition of people. Due to this added value, companies that successfully achieve Marketing 3.0 usually attract a group of fans. The most important aspect of Marketing 4.0 is how the development of digital innovations has changed marketing. The superstructure that originally controlled part of a firm’s resources in the past has gradually been diluted by more horizontal power. In this world, when the power of a community surpasses that of individuals, customers become stronger, and they are more vocal and unafraid of large companies or brands; additionally, they love to share everything, whether good or bad. Social circles become the main source of influence, and they are far better than external marketing communication methods. Therefore, new marketing models such as word-of-mouth marketing [15][16][17][18], social media marketing [19][20][21][22], online celebrity marketing [23], and experience marketing [24][25][26][27] have emerged.
The sources of big data are many faceted, including mobile transactions, internet traffic (e.g., clickstreams), social media, and user-generated content. These data are recorded on purpose through sensors and transaction records [28]. The purpose of big data analysis is to generate new insights that can meaningfully make up for the shortcomings of traditional statistical data, surveys, and archive data sources, and they are in real time. The use of Google search queries to detect social epidemics is a classic example of the application of big data analytics [29]. As demonstrated by Boyd and Crawford [30], big data analysis redefines the composition of knowledge, leading to changes in epistemology. Thus, rather than being viewed as a uniform method, big data analysis can be regarded as a new research paradigm that uses a variety of analytical tools and makes inferences about reality from large amounts of data. Although big data analysis cannot be used for hypothesis verification, it is possible to explore new models or predict future trends by analyzing data [31]. Although big data is regarded as a new method of knowledge creation, the problems that may produce spurious correlations cannot be ignored. Therefore, scholars calling for the adoption of big data methods must also rely on theory [30].

3. Marketing Management in the Hotel Industry

3.1. Theoretical Contributions

Firstly, this research is the first attempt to review the articles on the hotel industry. In the past, there have been retrospective articles on the hospitality industry; however, their scope included restaurants, catering, and other related industries. In this research, only relevant literature on marketing topics in the hotel industry was reviewed, and the results better describe the trend of marketing research for the hotel industry than other reviews and can serve as a better reference for this industry. This study found that hotel marketing management research from the past 10 years can be divided into four major categories: marketing framework, marketing strategy, service, and consumer behavior. Articles on marketing framework discussed hospitality marketing [4], consumer value [32], and social media [33]. Future researchers who want to write retrospective documents can refer to the researchers work to find a specific group of articles. If hoteliers want to learn more about a single marketing topic, they can refer to related articles. In marketing strategy, social media marketing and sustainable marketing have been common marketing strategies in recent years. For example, Hsu [34] used Facebook to develop digital marketing strategies for Taiwanese restaurants, Leun et al. [35] used message theory to explore social media marketing among hotels, Xiong and Hu [36] examined viral marketing and discussed discount strategies in restaurants, and Sellers-Rubio and Calderón-Martínez [37] discussed the relationship between brand strategy and advertising expenditure. Hussain et al. [38] found that sustainable marketing assets have positive and significant effects on market performance. In addition, service is still the key to successful hotel marketing. For example, Chang [39] discussed the relationship between servicescape and customer behavioral intentions. Choi et al. [40] used the stressor–strain–outcome model as the basis to verify the relationship between emotional exhaustion, customer orientation, and service recovery performance. Ma et al. [41] found that hotel service engagement significantly informed subsequent product purchases. Understanding consumer behavior through big data has also been a research trend in recent years. Kim et al. [42] explored the gender and expertise differences in consumers’ motivations for reading hotel online reviews. Li et al. [43] investigated the effectiveness of meta discourse and interpretation in dealing with negative reviews using two important linguistic features. Mariani and Predvoditeleva [44] examined the impact of cultural traits and perceived experiences in the context of Russian hotels’ online review ratings. Second, most of the previous review articles only focused on specific marketing issues—for example, smartphones in tourism and hospitality marketing [45], personality [46], sustainability strategies [47], and brand management [48]. This research not only focused a specific topic but also addressed the entirety of hotel marketing management. Through such a comprehensive review, the researchers can better understand the overall picture and evolution of hotel marketing. Third, the previous review studies on hospitality marketing were conducted a decade ago [5]. The time period for this study, namely, between 2010 and 2020, could fill the gap in the literature regarding this decade. Finally, the previous retrospective articles on tourism and hospitality mostly employed bibliometrics [5][48]. This research is the first to adopt text mining to review articles. The advantage of using text mining is that data can be more comprehensively collected and analyzed. Moreover, due to the use of word segmentation, additional details can be found in the examined research.

3.2. Practical Contributions

This research provides some practical implications for hotel operators. First, more and more studies are being conducted on the application of big data in marketing management, especially the monitoring of social media and the analysis of online reviews through text mining. By conducting text mining, hotel operators can discover new market segments [49], implement membership marketing [50], conduct word-of-mouth marketing [51], enhance customer satisfaction [52], and increase purchase intention [52]. Although big data analysis tools have been widely used in other industries, the use of big data by hotel operators to support marketing decisions still needs to be strengthened. Furthermore, hoteliers can increase their customer value by creating unique experiences. Lahouel and Montargot [24] adopted strategic experiential modules and service encounters to discuss how luxury hotels can provide children with a memorable experience. Lee et al. [53] used big data and business intelligence technology to study the impact of customers’ multi-sensory service experience on customer satisfaction through cognitive effort and emotional evaluation. Finally, since consumers are gradually shifting their information sources from mass media to social media and online communities [10], hoteliers can use social media to enhance sustainable marketing [54].

3.3. Limitations and Future Research

The research limitations of this study are as follows. Some influential research on hotel marketing may only be written in books or published in non-SSCI index journals, and conference articles are not included in this research database. Furthermore, this research refers to articles that include “marketing”, “restaurant”, and “hospitality” in the abstract. This omitted the study of closely related constructions or constructions that serve as the basis of marketing research. Moreover, the researchers did not search for keywords related to management, business, or other fields. Using these keywords to search for management and business journals and build a database, one can collect more research on marketing management applications in different industries, but this research would not necessarily have been applicable to the hotel industry; thus, this article only focused on articles in the hotel field. Future empirical research can focus on marketing at different levels of an organization. Research on a specific level provides the ability to draw conclusions in a specific context, as well as an explanation of the actions and practices of roles and responsibilities at a specific organizational level. In this context, existing marketing theories play a critical role because they provide a valuable starting point for understanding the specific level of hotel marketing. the researchers believe that the researchers should explore the value of existing theories that represent hotel marketing on a multi-perspective and cross-functional level. This would enable the hotel marketing management field to overcome overspecialization and fragmentation and establish a good theoretical foundation, and continue to open up innovation and develop constructive ideas.

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