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CURRENT ISSUES IN TOURISM
Volume 24, Issue 23, Pages 3407-3419Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2021.1884205
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Brand personality; P2P accommodation; Gaussian process model; Cosine similarity; Twitter
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This study compared the brand personality of P2P accommodation platforms and hotel brands, finding a high degree of similarity between them. By using social media as a method, it extended the understanding of P2P accommodation.
This study uses an intrinsic lens to assess the brand personality of leading peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation platforms and hotel brands through brand generated content. Using a word embedding technique, gaussian process model, and cosine similarity, fourteen brands' personality traits were analyzed and compared through brands' Twitter postings. Findings reveal that P2P accommodation platforms have high scores in Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Agreeableness, followed by Openness, but are lowest on Neuroticism. Contrary to popular assumption, brand personalities of P2P accommodation platforms are highly similar to traditional hotels. This study extended the current knowledge on P2P accommodation from a brand personality perspective. Methodologically, this study highlights the potential of social media to derive insights beyond the traditional survey approach to understand the human psychology and behavior of brands.
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