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Customer segmentation via online reviews and ratings can assist different hotels, including spa hotels, to better inform marketing strategy development and ensure optimal marketing expenditures. However, traditional market segmentation approaches are ineffective in analysing social data on account of size, different dimensions and features of online review data. Machine learning approaches can assist in developing effective hybrid algorithms to overcome data-related complications associated with online reviews. Hence, the objective of this study is to develop a method for spa hotel segmentation and travel choice prediction by applying machine learning approaches. Method evaluation is conducted through a collection of datasets from travelers’ ratings and textual reviews of spa hotels on several features in TripAdvisor. Findings confirm that the proposed hybrid machine learning methods can be implemented …