scholarly journals How to Design Hotel Gamified Applications Effectively: Understanding the Motives of Users as Hotel Visitors

Author(s):  
Demos Parapanos ◽  
Elina Michopoulou

AbstractThe service sector including tourism and hospitality have recognized the need for a turn to a customer-centric approach that primarily values tourists’ needs, wants, preferences and requirements as major determinants in travel decisions. Considering that mobile devices are becoming travel buddies and that their use is profoundly influencing traveller’s journey highlights the need of Gamification. As a relatively new phenomenon in the industry, motives encouraging usage behaviour have yet to be researched. Identifying these motives could offer several advantages to hotels by providing relationship marketing, engagement and strengthening customer loyalty. This research tries to fill this gap and enlighten existing gamification research by understanding the motives of users’ continuance intention in adopting technology with gamification characteristics. Visual material based on the current definitions of gamification was prepared to create a hotel gamified application to help participants discuss their preferences.

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-24
Author(s):  
Anam Bhatti ◽  
Sumbal Arif ◽  
Marium Marium ◽  
Sohail Younas

CSR has become one of the imperative implements in satisfying customers. The impartial of this research is to calculate CSR, relationship marketing, and customer satisfaction. There is no more study accompanied in Pakistan to quantify the effect of CSR and relationship marketing on the relationship maintainer and customer loyalty. To find out deductive approach and survey method is used as research approach and research strategy respectively. This research design is descriptive and quantitative study. For data, collection questionnaire method with semantic differential scale and seven point scales are adopted. Data has been collected by adopting the non-probability convenience technique as sampling technique and the sample size is 400. For factor confirmatory factor analysis, structure equation modeling and medication analysis, regression analysis Amos software were used. Strong empirical evidence supports that the customer’s perception of CSR performance is highly influenced by the values


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sajjad Ahmad Afridi ◽  
Asad Shahjehan ◽  
Maqsood Haider ◽  
Dr Uzma Munawar

This study examined the impact of employee empathy on customers’ advocacy directly and indirectly through customers’ loyalty. Moreover, the interacting effect of customers’ trust was verified between the association of customers’ loyalty and advocacy. The attributes of the proposed model were examined in the context of first line employee and patients’ interactions. A total of 220 responses were collected for analysis from the private hospitals of Peshawar. The model fitness was confirmed through confirmatory factor analysis and hypotheses were examined. Findings confirmed the positive and significant impact of employee empathy on customers’ advocacy. Further, the mediating effect was examined and found that loyalty partially mediates employee empathy and customers’ advocacy. Additionally, trust was found a significant moderator between the association of customer loyalty and advocacy. Furthermore, findings revealed that trust based loyalty significantly and positively mediates employee empathy and customers’ advocacy. Findings of the present study provide understanding for the service sector, particularly in healthcare, to enhance customers’ loyalty, advocacy, and trust through service employee’s empathic aptitude. Keywords: Employee empathy, Service Eco-system, Customers’ Loyalty, Customers’ Advocacy, Trust-Based Loyalty, Healthcare, S-D Logic


Author(s):  
Wenny Pebrianti ◽  
Wenseslaus Tanwira ◽  
Ahmadi

The internet has changed people's way of life, especially in dealing a transaction. Indonesian banking entered a new era since 2000 when banks in Indonesia began implementing electronic banking or e-banking systems. Integrating cellular communication technology and banking financial services is changing people's lifestyles to be more flexible in making it easier for users to access banking financial services without being hindered by time, place and space. The same integration also occurs in relationship marketing strategies and cellular communication technologies that make it easy for companies to be able to reach and provide the best service to their consumers. This study wants to reveal the relationship of interactivity and engagement which is an activity of Online Relationship Marketing at a bank to be able to understand consumers in order to create customer loyalty with online trust as mediation.Based on the above background, the problem in this study is "Does Online Relationship Marketing activities such as engagement and interactivity affect customer loyalty either through online trust as mediation or not?" Keywords: engagement, interactivity, online trust, customer loyalty, signaling theory


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-56
Author(s):  
Novita Ekasari ◽  
Nurhasanah Nurhasanah

Dewasa ini perkembangan jasa dirasakan mengalami peningkatan, hal tersebut di iringi oleh berkembangnya berbagai sektor jasa seperti jasa pembiayaan kendaraan (finance) baik untuk kendaraan roda dua maupun roda empat.. Kebutuhan akan jasa pembiayaan ini semankin dibutuhkan masyarakat, pentingnya konsumsi akan jasa pembiayaan kendaraan tersebut makin dirasakan memiliki potensi yang besar dalam diri individu maupun dalam  kegiatan usaha, dikarenakan  jasa pembiayaan (finance)  saat ini merupakan  suatu  pilihan  yang baik dalam menghadapi berbagai resiko terutama dari sisi proses yang relatif lebih cepat dan mudah dibandingkan perbankan. Dalam penelitian ini perusahaan jasa pembiayaan yang akan diangkat untuk diteliti yaitu PT. BFI Finance Jambi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dampak dari Customer Relationship Marketing terhadap Loyalitas Nasabah Pada PT.BFI Finance Jambi. Sumber data dalam penelitian  ini adalah data primer dan data sekunder. Data primer diperoleh melalui observasi, wawancara dan kuisioner yang di susun penulis menegenai customer relationship marketing terhadap customer loyalty. Sedangkan Data sekunder adalah data yang di peroleh dari PT. BFI Finance dan diperoleh pula melalui literatur buku dan internet. Penelitian ini menganalisis pengaruh relationship marketing ((People  (X1), Knowledge and Insight (X2), Process (X3), Technology (X4)) terhadap Customer Loyalty. Penelitian ini dilakukan di PT. BFI Finance Jambi. Jumlah sampel yang diambil dalam penelitian ini berjumlah 100 orang.


2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 524-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valter Afonso Vieira ◽  
Plinio R.R. Monteiro ◽  
Ricardo Teixeira Veiga

Author(s):  
Larysa Getman ◽  

The article discusses approaches to the interpretation of the concept of a service, its specific differences from a physical product and the main features as an object of purchase and sale in the relevant market. Based on the analysis and systematization of existing scientific views, the main features of the service market and the features of the interaction of supply and demand in the service sector are revealed. The practice of functioning of the service market demonstrates the high dynamics of market processes, a pronounced segmentation of demand for services, a high degree of differentiation of services, a high rate of capital turnover and the important role of non-price barriers to entry into the market. The essence and value of the customer's customer loyalty for successful commercial activities and increasing the competitiveness of the manufacturer-supplier of the service has been investigated. Loyalty becomes an indicator of business performance and its ability to innovate. A customer-oriented business philosophy, where a wide range of factors of influence on the formation of customer loyalty is taken into account and used, will allow the company to count on long-term relationships with the consumer and will attract new customers through his positive experience. The possibilities and features of the application of competitive strategies by firms in the field of service activities were analyzed. The main trends in the development of the services market in the current stage, namely the processes of its digitalization, have been investigated. The buyer today is interested not only in price and quality, but also in good service. If a company meets customer service demand through the introduction of chat bots, self- service terminals, mobile applications, etc., then this contributes to the formation of a positive customer experience, which ultimately increases sales. The features and advantages of using information technologies both in business activities and in the implementation of consumer choice have been determined.


2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Madhavaiah ◽  
S. Durga Rao

The term “relationship marketing” has become a popular concept among the practitioners of marketing as well as academics during the last several years. It is very beneficial to firms because it can foster customer loyalty and re-patronage behaviour. Apart from its growing popularity among academia and practitioners, still there exists no consensus on the basic “constructs” of relationship marketing. Different authors have different opinions about what should and what should not be at the core of what constitutes “relationship marketing”. In view of this, an attempt is made in this paper to collect and analyse 36 definitions of relationship marketing from different sources of previous literature. Content analysis methodology has been used to identify the underlying “constructs” in each of the 36 definitions. The results suggest that there are seven RM “constructs” which constitute the major conceptualisations of relationship marketing. Out of 36 definitions of relationship marketing, only one definition is judged as being more comprehensive and generally acceptable and a new definition for relationship marketing is presented as an inducement to further research and discussion.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document