Title: A study of customer care and satisfaction towards hotel service quality

Authors: Li-Mei Hung; Chien-Chou Chen

Addresses: Hungkuang University, No. 1018, Sec. 6, Taiwan Boulevard, Shalu District, Taichung City, Taiwan ' Ling Tung University, 1, Lingtung Road, Nantun Taichung City, Taiwan

Abstract: This study aims to understand customer care and satisfaction towards the quality of hotel service and explore whether there is a service gap between customer expectation and the actual quality of service. A total of 246 hotel customers participated in the study. The results indicated that customer care and satisfaction towards the quality of hotel service has highly significant linear positive correlation (r = 0.407, p = 0.000). Comfortable environment and reasonable price are the major reasons for customer revisit (97.6%), and customer revisit also has significant correlation with gender, age, marital status, occupation and willingness to recommend the hotel to their friends and family. The study suggested that hotel businesses implement strategies to increase service qualities and establish a positive image of the hotel brand since good quality brings higher customer satisfaction.

Keywords: customer care; customer satisfaction; customer revisit; service gap; service quality; hotel industry; hotel services; customer expectations; hotel brands; brand image.

DOI: 10.1504/IJECRM.2013.060710

International Journal of Electronic Customer Relationship Management, 2013 Vol.7 No.3/4, pp.161 - 172

Received: 06 Aug 2013
Accepted: 04 Apr 2014
Published online: 30 Jun 2014 *

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