amir hoseyn shariati; nadia foruzan
Volume 5, Issue 14 , February 2011, , Pages 153-176
Abstract
Present article investigates the influencing factors on service quality of tourism agencies located at southern part of Isfahan. The objective is to study the influence of factors, namely service characteristics, responsiveness, Kindness, reliability, customer Relationship management, appearance (facilities), ...
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Present article investigates the influencing factors on service quality of tourism agencies located at southern part of Isfahan. The objective is to study the influence of factors, namely service characteristics, responsiveness, Kindness, reliability, customer Relationship management, appearance (facilities), price, technology, distribution, promotion, credibility, and warranty, on the service quality of tourism agencies. A self-structured questionnaire relying on servqual scale was designed and its validity was measured by Cronbach's coefficient alpha of 95.6%. Afterwards, hypotheses were tested on a statistical sample of 100 individuals to find correlation between factors. The highest correlation coefficient was found to be between technology and distribution (0.837). The resulted ranking classification turned out to be as the following: 1.responsiveness, 2.reliability, 3.credibility, 4.warranty, 5.kindness, 6.service characteristics, 7.appearance, 8.price, 9.technology, 10.distribution, 11.customer relationship management, 12.Promotion
mehdi karoubi; javad yousefi
Volume 5, Issue 13 , November 2010, , Pages 65-84
Abstract
Quality of service is one of the most important issues for competing service companies, and consequently using a method for service quality mesurment is of great significance. Although there is no consensus on the most appropriate method for this measurement, in this study, according to the literature ...
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Quality of service is one of the most important issues for competing service companies, and consequently using a method for service quality mesurment is of great significance. Although there is no consensus on the most appropriate method for this measurement, in this study, according to the literature review findings, using the SERVQUAL model for comparing hotel guest’s expectations and perceptions was preferred. Therefore, our focus in this article is on the different dimensions of service quality in SERVQUAL model, and SPSS 16 was employed to analyze these dimensions of our case study. The findings of the research are classified into two parts: the first part contains some information about demographical attributions of the respondents. The second part, are the hypothesis tests demonstrating that the perceived quality of service in Mashhad’s Homa II hotel is higher than expectations of Iranian guests.
