Hotels are one of the fastest-growing sectors in the tourism industry, and sentiment analysis plays a vital role in improving business performance and supporting sustainable practices. This paper proposes a novel framework combining topic mining and aspect-based sentiment analysis to examine 29,334 hotel reviews in Henan province in China, with the aim of informing strategies for sustainable hotel development. Our results reveal six key attributes of customer concern, particularly emphasizing family experiences, which reflect Henan’s appeal as a family tourism destination. Additionally, we uncover sentiment quadruples, including categories, aspect terms, opinion terms, and polarities, thus enabling a dual-dimensional evaluation of factors influencing customer satisfaction. The results reveal that service mainly influences overall category-level satisfaction, while bed, front desk, and breakfast primarily drive aspect-level satisfaction. This study provides valuable insights into customer feedback, offering empirical support for optimizing services and guiding the sustainable strategic development of regional hotels.