Service quality becomes an important means of surviving keen competition as the orientation of management control is rapidly moving from production to marketing and to service. Among a variety of service attributes, service quality is being actively a...
Service quality becomes an important means of surviving keen competition as the orientation of management control is rapidly moving from production to marketing and to service. Among a variety of service attributes, service quality is being actively and positively studied as service itself becomes considered as a means of differentiation. There have been many studies about dimensions of service quality, but few about how hotel businesses' perceived service quality influence customer confidence and customer satisfaction.
Thus the purpose of this study is to determine effects of hotel businesses' perceived service quality on customer confidence and customer satisfaction. For the purpose, this researcher considered perceived service quality, customer confidence and customer satisfaction as variables. Hypotheses set here were verified using the multi-regression analysis in accordance with SPSS Statistical Package.
Results of the study can be described as follows.
First, such factors of perceived service quality as human, physical and system services all influenced customer confidence. Among factors of customer confidence, sincerity was influenced only by system service.
Second, such factors of customer confidence as reliability, friendliness and sincerity all had influences on customer satisfaction.
To survive keen competition, today, hotel businesses should pay more attention to services. As a part of the attention, they should put the focus of their paradigm of management control on services, extensively introducing service management perspectives.
Previous positive studies and literature about service strategies showed that service quality was the most important strategical factor. Long-term financial achievements by hotels are closely related with delivering high quality services to existing or potential customers. Therefore, hotel businesses should pay attention to how their tangible and intangible services are being evaluated by customers. Among various service attributes, service quality is most critically influential to customer confidence and customer satisfaction. For this reason, many efforts and measurements have been attempted to clarify dimensions of service quality. In a similar vein, thus, this study tried to determine effects of perceived service quality on customer confidence and customer satisfaction.