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Hotel Evaluation and Performance Ranking Using the Spherical Fuzzy MARCOS Method: An Application in Gaziantep Province

Küresel Bulanık MARCOS Yöntemi Kullanılarak Otel Değerlendirmesi ve Performans Sıralaması: Gaziantep İlinde Bir Uygulama

Müslüm Öztürk(KİLİS 7 ARALIK ÜNİVERSİTESİ)0000-0003-1941-3115
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1–23
Publication Date
2026-09-15
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The findings also offer practical insights for sustainable and competitive hospitality management.

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Objective & Hypothesis:The tourism and hospitality sector faces intense competition and increasingly complex service quality expectations, making hotel evaluation and performance ranking a multi-criteria decision-making problem under uncertainty.
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Key Findings & Data:The proposed framework is applied to hotel alternatives in Gaziantep Province, Türkiye, providing a realistic decision environment for assessing competing performance dimensions.
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Conclusion & Impact:The findings also offer practical insights for sustainable and competitive hospitality management.
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⚙️Variables:Küresel Bulanık MARCOS · Otel Performans Analizi · Çok Kriterli Karar Verme (ÇKKV)

Abstract

The tourism and hospitality sector faces intense competition and increasingly complex service quality expectations, making hotel evaluation and performance ranking a multi-criteria decision-making problem under uncertainty. This study develops a Spherical Fuzzy MARCOS (SF-MARCOS)-based framework for evaluating and ranking hotels while accounting for the uncertainty and subjectivity inherent in expert judgments. The proposed framework is applied to hotel alternatives in Gaziantep Province, Türkiye, providing a realistic decision environment for assessing competing performance dimensions. The results identify service quality, hygiene and safety standards, environmental sustainability, hotel location, and operational flexibility as key determinants of hotel performance. The ranking reveals clear performance differences among the evaluated alternatives, with leading hotels achieving superior results through balanced performance across the considered criteria. Weight perturbation analysis demonstrates that the ranking is generally stable under variations in criterion weights, although some changes occur among medium-performing alternatives. Comparative analysis with SF-TOPSIS, SF-VIKOR, and SF-COBRA shows substantial consistency, particularly for the highest- and lowest-ranked alternatives, supporting the robustness and reliability of the proposed approach. The study contributes to the limited literature integrating spherical fuzzy logic with the MARCOS methodology for hotel evaluation under uncertain and imprecise expert assessments. The proposed framework provides tourism managers and decision-makers with a structured and reliable tool for benchmarking hotel performance and identifying areas requiring improvement. The findings also offer practical insights for sustainable and competitive hospitality management.

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Turizm ve konaklama sektörü, yoğun rekabet ve giderek karmaşıklaşan hizmet kalitesi beklentileriyle karşı karşıyadır. Bu durum, otellerin değerlendirilmesi ve performanslarının sıralanmasını belirsizlik altında çok kriterli bir karar verme problemi hâline getirmektedir. Bu çalışma, uzman değerlendirmelerindeki belirsizlik ve öznelliği dikkate alarak otellerin değerlendirilmesi ve sıralanması amacıyla Küresel Bulanık MARCOS (SF-MARCOS) tabanlı bir çerçeve sunmaktadır. Önerilen çerçeve, rekabet eden otellerin performans boyutlarını değerlendirmek amacıyla gerçekçi bir karar ortamı sunmakta ve Türkiye’nin Gaziantep ilindeki otel alternatiflerine uygulanmıştır. Bulgular; hizmet kalitesi, hijyen ve güvenlik standartları, çevresel sürdürülebilirlik, otel konumu ve operasyonel esnekliğin otel performansını belirleyen temel kriterler olduğunu ortaya koymuştur. Elde edilen sıralama, alternatifler arasında belirgin performans farklılıkları bulunduğunu ve önde gelen otellerin dikkate alınan kriterler açısından dengeli performans sergilediğini göstermiştir. Kriter ağırlıklarındaki değişimlere yönelik duyarlılık analizi, bazı orta düzeyde performans gösteren alternatiflerde değişiklikler görülmesine rağmen sıralamanın genel olarak istikrarlı olduğunu ortaya koymuştur. SF-TOPSIS, SF-VIKOR ve SF-COBRA ile gerçekleştirilen karşılaştırmalı analiz, özellikle en yüksek ve en düşük sıralanan alternatifler açısından yüksek düzeyde tutarlılık olduğunu göstermiş ve önerilen yaklaşımın sağlamlığını desteklemiştir. Çalışma, belirsiz ve kesin olmayan uzman değerlendirmeleri altında otel değerlendirmesi için küresel bulanık mantık ile MARCOS metodolojisini bütünleştiren sınırlı sayıdaki çalışmaya katkı sağlamaktadır. Önerilen çerçeve, turizm yöneticileri ve karar vericilere otel performansını kıyaslamak ve iyileştirilmesi gereken alanları belirlemek için yapılandırılmış ve güvenilir bir araç sunmaktadır. Bulgular ayrıca sürdürülebilir ve rekabetçi konaklama yönetimine pratik katkılar sağlamaktadır.

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Öztürk, M. (2026). Hotel Evaluation and Performance Ranking Using the Spherical Fuzzy MARCOS Method: An Application in Gaziantep Province. Zeki Sistemler Teori ve Uygulamaları Dergisi, Cilt: 9 Sayı: 2026, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.38016/jista.1935392

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