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- Title
Big Data Analysis with Hadoop on Personalized Incentive Model with Statistical Hotel Customer Data.
- Authors
Sungchul Lee; Eunmin Hwang; Ju-Yeon Jo; Yoohwan Kim
- Abstract
Due to the advancement of Information Technology (IT), the hospitality industry is seeing a great value in gathering various kinds of and a large amount of customers' data. However, many hotels are facing a challenge in analyzing customer data and using it as an effective tool to understand the hospitality customers better and, ultimately, to increase the revenue. The authors' research attempts to resolve the current challenges of analyzing customer data in hospitality by utilizing the big data analysis tools, especially Hadoop and R. Hadoop is a framework for processing large-scale data. With the integration of new approach, their study demonstrates the ways of aggregating and analyzing the hospitality customer data to find meaningful customer information. Multiple decision trees are constructed from the customer data sets with the intention of classifying customers' needs and customers' clusters. By analyzing the customer data, the study suggests three strategies to increase the total expenditure of the customers within a limited amount of time during their stay.
- Publication
International Journal of Software Innovation, 2016, Vol 4, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
2166-7160
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4018/IJSI.2016070101