“…Nearly forty years after the first conceptualization of customer experience (CE) by Holbrook and Hirschman (1982), it has acquired increasing importance in the academic debate on marketing and management (Bueno et al, 2019;Kranzbühler et al, 2018;Chaney et al, 2018;Jain et al, 2017;Lemon and Verhoef, 2016;Adhikari and Bhattacharya, 2016;Homburg et al, 2015;Helkkula, 2011;Palmer, 2010;Tynan and McKechnie, 2009;Gentile et al, 2007). Moreover, the experiential approach has become a topical issue in the managerial literature, as evidenced by recent reviews (Kranzbühler et al 2018;Chaney et al, 2018;Forlani et al, 2018;Lemon and Verhoef, 2016;Adhikari and Bhattacharya, 2016;Du Plessis and De Vries 2016;Homburg et al 2015). Over the last two decades the marketing literature has also acknowledged the important contribution of works published by consultants and practitioners: Experience Economy Gilmore, 1998, 1999), Experiential Marketing (Schmitt, 1999a;1999b), Customer Experience Management (Schmitt, 2003).…”