2014
DOI: 10.1080/14783363.2014.886371
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Tourism service quality improvement – ‘the early bird catches the worm’

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to build an integrated important-performance and gap analysis-quality function deployment (IPGA-QFD) model with outperforming service quality improvement capabilities in (1) identifying key service failures and (2) seeking the most effective recovery solutions that can handle numerous existing key failures to meet customer demands at the highest level regarding travel agencies' internal management, network service, and local tour leaders. For data collection, survey questionnaires … Show more

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“…Service failures may prove to be extremely costly for service businesses, as customers quite often switch providers, after experiencing such service failures (Bernardo, Llach, Marimon, & Alonso-Almeida, 2013;Carley & Lin, 1995;Folkes, 1984;Folkes & Kotsos, 1986;Gruber, Szmigin, & Voss, 2009;Lin, 2012;Lin, Wang, & Chang, 2011;Lin, Yang, & Ho, 2014;Mostert, De Meyer, & van Rensburg, 2009;Neira et al, 2010;Roschk & Gelbrich, 2014;Van Vaerenbergh, Orsingher, Vermeir, & Larivière, 2014). The consequences of service failures may be both visible, for example, in the form of defection of a loyal customer, and not so visible, for example, in the form of alienation of potential customers through the negative word-of-mouth referrals of unhappy customers.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Service failures may prove to be extremely costly for service businesses, as customers quite often switch providers, after experiencing such service failures (Bernardo, Llach, Marimon, & Alonso-Almeida, 2013;Carley & Lin, 1995;Folkes, 1984;Folkes & Kotsos, 1986;Gruber, Szmigin, & Voss, 2009;Lin, 2012;Lin, Wang, & Chang, 2011;Lin, Yang, & Ho, 2014;Mostert, De Meyer, & van Rensburg, 2009;Neira et al, 2010;Roschk & Gelbrich, 2014;Van Vaerenbergh, Orsingher, Vermeir, & Larivière, 2014). The consequences of service failures may be both visible, for example, in the form of defection of a loyal customer, and not so visible, for example, in the form of alienation of potential customers through the negative word-of-mouth referrals of unhappy customers.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Tad paslaugų kokybės savybių dimensijos gali pasitarnauti nustatant turizmo paslaugų kokybės gerinimo kryptis (2 lentelė). Šaltinis: sudaryta autorių, remiantis Lin, Yang, Ho, 2015;Gajić, Yang, Shin, Joun, Koo, 2017;Shin, Chung, Kang, Koo, 2017;Yang, Shin, Joun, Koo, 2017;Shin, Chung, Kang, Koo, 2017;Skackauskiene, Vesterte, 2018;Petrović, Radovanović, Tretiakova, Syromiatnikova, 2020;Al-Hazmia, 2020;Grasso, Sergi, 2021. Pagal pateiktas paslaugų kokybės savybių dimensijas (2 lentelė) išskirtos galimos gerinamos turizmo paslaugų kokybės kryptys. Turizmo paslaugų kokybės dimensijų nustatymas leidžia gerinti turizmo paslaugų kokybę.…”
Section: Autoriaiunclassified
“…Turizmo sektoriui būdingos sparčiai besikeičiančios tendencijos, tokios kaip klientų elgsenos pokyčiai, naujos technologijos ir nuolat kintantys rinkos poreikiai. Mokslininkų (Lin, Yang, Ho, 2015;Gražulis, Narkūnienė, 2017;Grasso, Sergi, 2021) teigimu, dėl didžiulės konkurencijos turizmo sektoriuje, ypač svarbu gerinti paslaugų kokybę, nes turizmo paslaugų objektams, kelionių agentūroms tai leidžia didinti rinkos dalį ir pritraukti daugiau turistų. Tik patekimas į rinką su konkurencinga paslauga leidžia įmonei išlikti konkurencinėje aplinkoje.…”
Section: Turizmo Paslaugų Apibūdinimasunclassified
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“…(2013) utilizes application of QFD for improving the hospital services. Yeh and Chen (2014) proposed a design on quality of nursing service by integrating Kano and QFD Lin et al. (2015) used QFD for improving the quality of tourism services.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%