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| Title: | Cruise Travelers’ Service Perceptions: An Evidence from Cruise Passengers’ Reviews by Using Leximancer |
| Authors: | Kılıç, Hasan (Co-Supervisor) Araslı, Hüseyin (Supervisor) Saydam, Mehmet Bahri Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Tourism |
| Keywords: | Thesis Tez Tourism Faculty Cruise Tourism cruise travel service quality content analysis ship industry guest perception online reviews |
| Issue Date: | Sep-2021 |
| Publisher: | Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ) |
| Citation: | Saydam, Mehmet Bahri. (2021). Cruise Travelers’ Service Perceptions: An Evidence from Cruise Passengers’ Reviews by Using Leximancer. Thesis (Ph.D.), Eastern Mediterranean University, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, Faculty of Tourism, Famagusta: North Cyprus. |
| Abstract: | Given the cruise sector's importance to the tourism industry and the dearth of prior
research in this area, this study qualitatively explores cruise tourists' perceptions of
cruise-line services by evaluating the cruise attributes that matter to passengers.
Leximancer 4.5 software is used to analyze 2000 voluntarily submitted customer
evaluations on a cruise guide website (cruisecritic.com) in order to discover main
cruise tourism themes and then assess whether these themes are conveyed negatively
or positively. Eight of the most popular cruise ships, as determined by cruisecritic.com,
were chosen. The cruise's perceived quality was described around ten themes,
according to the analysis. “Ship”, “staff”, “food”, “entertainment”, “room”, “area”,
“embarkation”, “excursion”, “disembarkation” and “port” are the themes that found as
dominant themes shared by cruise travelers in their narratives. Furthermore, the results
show that themes like “ship”, “staff”, “food”, “entertainment”, “room” and “area” are
associated with high satisfaction (excellent/very good), in contrast, “embarkation”,
“disembarkation”, “excursion” and “port” are associated with low satisfaction
(poor/terrible). ÖZ:
Çalışmanın amacı, cruisecritic.com sitesinde bulunan ve kruzaviyer turu deneyimine
sahip yolcuların kruvaziyer turu hizmet kalitesi algılarını incelemektir. Buna göre,
kruvaziyer yolcularının, kruvaziyer gemileri hakkında paylaştıkları toplamda 2000
çevrimiçi inceleme Leximancer yazılımı kullanılarak analiz edilmiştir. Analiz
sonucunda, toplamda 10 ana tema yolcuların hizmet kalitesi algısı konusunda ön plana
çıkmıştır. Bunlar; “gemi”, “personel”, “yemek”, “eğlence”, “oda”, “alan”, “gemiye
biniş”, “gezi”, “karaya çıkış” ve “liman”. Çalışmanın bir diğer amacı bulunan
temaların hangilerinin memnuniyet/memnuniyetsizlikle bağlantılı olduğunu bulmaktı.
Yapılan analizler sonucu, “gemi”, “personel”, “yemek”, “eğlence”, “oda” ve “alan”
gibi temaların yüksek memnuniyet (mükemmel/çok iyi) ile ilişkili olduğu
bulunmuştur. Buna karşın, “gemiye biniş”, “karaya çıkış”, “gezi” ve “liman” temaları
düşük memnuniyet ile ilişkilendirilmiştir. |
| Description: | Doctor of Philosophy in Tourism Management. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research. Thesis (Ph.D.) - Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Tourism, 2021. Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hasan Kılıç and Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Araslı |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11129/6538 |
| Appears in Collections: | Theses (Master's and Ph.D) – Tourism
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