Cruise Travelers’ Service Perceptions: An Evidence from Cruise Passengers’ Reviews by Using Leximancer

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dc.contributor.advisor Kılıç, Hasan (Co-Supervisor)
dc.contributor.advisor Araslı, Hüseyin (Supervisor)
dc.contributor.author Saydam, Mehmet Bahri
dc.date.accessioned 2025-11-28T08:41:59Z
dc.date.available 2025-11-28T08:41:59Z
dc.date.issued 2021-09
dc.date.submitted 2021-09
dc.identifier.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. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11129/6538
dc.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 en_US
dc.description.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). en_US
dc.description.abstract 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. en_US
dc.language.iso eng en_US
dc.publisher Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ) en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess en_US
dc.subject Thesis Tez en_US
dc.subject Tourism Faculty en_US
dc.subject Cruise Tourism en_US
dc.subject cruise en_US
dc.subject travel en_US
dc.subject service quality en_US
dc.subject content analysis en_US
dc.subject ship industry en_US
dc.subject guest perception en_US
dc.subject online reviews en_US
dc.title Cruise Travelers’ Service Perceptions: An Evidence from Cruise Passengers’ Reviews by Using Leximancer en_US
dc.type doctoralThesis en_US
dc.contributor.department Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Tourism en_US


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