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What Guest Reviews Say About Da Nang Hotels

We analyzed Booking.com reviews and grouped hotels into segments (groups with similar guest feedback patterns). This helps hotel teams see what to fix first without reading thousands of comments manually.

Review source

Booking.com guest reviews

Da Nang, Vietnam Review window: 27 Nov 2022 - 27 Jan 2026 74,896 reviews 458 hotels
Project Snapshot

What This Project Does

This page summarizes findings from real Booking review text. Segment results are used for planning service priorities, while illustrative views are used only to explain decisions.

Total Reviews

74,896

Hotels Covered

458 hotels

Guest Segments

10 segments

Evidence Tier

Reported

Quick Start

New Here? Read This First

This page turns a large set of guest comments into practical hotel action priorities. You do not need a statistics background to read it.

What was analyzed

Reviews from 458 hotels

The dataset includes 74,896 Booking.com reviews from Da Nang hotels between 27 Nov 2022 and 27 Jan 2026.

How to read the figures

Reported vs illustrative

Use reported figures for decisions. Treat illustrative figures as communication aids that explain logic and sequencing.

Decision output

Find the first problems to fix

Focus on repeated pain points across segments to prioritize service improvements with the clearest guest impact.

Industry Intelligence · Updated February 2026

Market Context: Why These Segment Results Matter Now

This market snapshot adds context to the segment findings using current global and local tourism signals. It helps teams choose priorities that are relevant to both demand growth and operating pressure.

Global International Arrivals (2024)

1.4B

UN Tourism reports the market returned to roughly 99% of pre-2019 levels.

International Arrivals (Q1 2025)

300M

Momentum remained positive at +5% year-over-year in early 2025.

Global Room-Night Demand (2024)

4.8B

JLL estimates demand rose by 102 million room nights from 2023.

Hotel Investment Volume (2024)

$57.3B

Global hotel transactions increased around 7% and liquidity improved.

Da Nang 2025 Visitor Plan

11.9M

Local target includes 4.8 million international overnight visitors.

Signal Board (2024-2026)

Bar lengths are normalized for visual scanning and should not be read as directly proportional across unlike metrics.

What This Means for Hotel Operations

Speed wins conversion

In high-growth windows, service-lag penalties rise quickly. Segment playbooks should prioritize response and turnaround metrics.

Capital is returning

Improving transaction liquidity supports selective upgrades. Target capex on pain points with both high volume and high severity.

Margin discipline still matters

PwC's U.S. 2026 view points to a moderate cycle (occupancy around 62%, RevPAR +0.9%), so pricing and service quality must move together.

Method Overview

Simple Workflow

Step 1

Collect reviews

Gather and clean Booking review text so the dataset is consistent.

Step 2

Extract experience topics

Identify key topics such as room, service, location, and cleanliness.

Step 3

Group similar hotels

Use two grouping models (K-means and GMM) and keep patterns that stay consistent.

Step 4

Validate quality

Confirm that segment groups are clearly separated and stable.

Step 5

Turn insights into actions

Translate the segment patterns into service, pricing, and upgrade priorities.

Figures

How to Read the Figures

A. Market overview

Start here to see review volume trends and the baseline segment mix.

Weekly review volume trend for the Da Nang hotel market
Reported trend behavior in review volume over the study period.
Treemap of observed traveler segment shares
Reported segment-share structure used to define baseline concentration.

B. Segment separation check

This chart checks whether segment groups are distinct enough to use in planning.

Map showing whether hotel segments overlap or stay separate
Reported map used to check whether segment groups are clearly separated.

C. Pain-point priorities

This layer highlights where guest pain points concentrate. The second map is illustrative and used for communication only.

Heatmap of positive and negative guest feedback by segment
Reported concentration of attribute pain points by segment.
Value-risk priority map used for sequencing discussion
Illustrative prioritization map used to communicate sequencing logic.
Research Takeaways

Main Takeaways

Across 74,896 Booking reviews from 458 Da Nang hotels, guest dissatisfaction clusters in a few repeatable operational issues rather than being evenly spread across all service attributes.

Use reported diagnostics (segment share, separation check, and the pain-point heatmap) for decisions. Use illustrative maps only to explain the reasoning to stakeholders.

Evidence base

Large Coverage, Local Scope

The study covers 10 guest segments in one market and one review window (27 Nov 2022 to 27 Jan 2026), which is strong for local planning.

Priority signals

Top Friction Concentrates in Three Areas

The strongest repeated issues are service response lag, room consistency gaps, and arrival or checkout friction.

Interpretation rule

Use Reported Figures for Decisions

Operational choices should rely on reported evidence layers, while illustrative visuals are best used to explain sequencing and align stakeholders.