Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information, Business and Education Technology (ICIBET 2013)

E- Complaining: Analysis of Lodging Customers’ e-Complaints from a Turk-ish Internet Website

Authors
Ferika Özer SARI, Özlem Alik l ç, Ferah Onat
Corresponding Author
Ferika Özer SARI
Available Online March 2013.
DOI
10.2991/icibet.2013.183How to use a DOI?
Abstract

E-complaints are important feedback mechanisms to monitor and respond con-sumer complaints on a real time basis. Aim of this research is to analyze the content of e-complaints about Turkish lodging sector and to detect the resolution of them by the companies. In this regard, the data obtained from one of the most popular Turkish e-complaint sites “Sikayetvar .com”. Content analysis method is used to classify complaints ac-cording to predetermined 15 problem cat-egories and the responses of the hotels were tracked. Findings revealed that majority of e-complaints were related to the main service responsibilities of hotels such as food and beverage services, guestrooms, public areas and courtesy of employees.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information, Business and Education Technology (ICIBET 2013)
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
March 2013
ISBN
978-90-78677-57-4
ISSN
1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/icibet.2013.183How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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