Periods of massive visits

In this section we investigated how the score assigned by reviewers varies according to the period. We considered the visit date, when available, otherwise the review date. The analysis was carried on by using the TripAdvisor dataset.

Date of visit

This table shows the average score (ranged over 1-5) splitted by time of the year and type of structure, for the city of Lucca. The values for the columns "Always" (no temporal restriction),"July" and "Comics" indicates the averages of the score given by reviewers in that period.

Always always_size July july_size Comics comics_size
category
attractions 4.507074 21630 4.504774 2304 4.538752 3445
hotels 4.356686 24851 4.299148 3052 4.363805 3763
restaurants 4.160446 65530 4.184009 6266 4.161572 9748

This table shows the average users' evaluation (ranged over 1-5) splitted by time of the year and type of facility, city of Viareggio.

always always_size Carnival (February) carnival_size June june_size July july_size August august_size September september_size
category
attractions 4.053982 3353 3.967419 399 4.097179 319 4.101338 523 4.029730 740 4.224771 436
hotels 4.080912 10703 4.095764 1086 4.161441 1499 4.001205 1660 3.961216 1908 4.142639 1311
restaurants 3.999977 43524 3.994227 3811 4.040041 3921 3.956454 5144 3.952911 7369 4.053443 3892

Date of review

This table shows the average users' evaluation (over 1-5) splitted by date in which the review has been written and the type of facility, city of Lucca.

Always July Comics
category
attractions 4.507074 4.524590 4.528959
hotels 4.356686 4.345368 4.358019
restaurants 4.160446 4.181122 4.148355

This table shows the average users' evaluation (over 1-5) by date of the review and kind of facility, city of Viareggio.

Always Carnival June July August September
category
attractions 4.053982 3.904639 4.199234 4.010526 4.029703 4.172662
hotels 4.080912 4.094196 4.166528 4.073377 3.951232 4.093190
restaurants 3.999977 3.996019 4.023268 3.952950 3.939120 4.034950

This table shows the number of users' evaluation splitted by date and kind of facility, city of Viareggio.

always carnival june july august september
category
attractions 3353 388 261 475 707 417
hotels 10703 1051 1201 1540 1907 1395
restaurants 43524 4773 3782 5101 7868 4721