The purpose of this study was to confirm the causal role of service trust and affective commitment in influencing the revisit intention of customers who experienced hotel service, and to verify the moderating effect of employee empathy on the relation...
The purpose of this study was to confirm the causal role of service trust and affective commitment in influencing the revisit intention of customers who experienced hotel service, and to verify the moderating effect of employee empathy on the relationship among perceived service experience, service trust, and affective commitment. This study conducted a survey of 317 consumers who had experienced hotel services and verified the research hypotheses presented in this study through structural equation modeling (SEM). The study results showed that perceived service experience significantly influenced service trust and affectiv commitment, but not revisit intention. And service trust significantly influenced both affective commitment and revisit intention, and affective commitment significantly influenced revisit intention. Perceived service experience influenced affective commitment depending on the level of employee empathy, but employee empathy did not moderate the relationship between perceived service experience and service trust. This study is significant in that it investigated the causal role of relationship quality in the relationship between hotel service users' perceived service experience and revisit intention, and confirmed the moderating effect of employee empathy on the relationship between perceived service experience and relationship quality factors.