Improving Quality Of Service Industries Using Online Customer Reviews: Cross-Sector Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suchithra Rajendran ◽  
Sandhiya Baskar
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Customer Reviews ◽  
Online Customer Reviews

scholarly journals Determining the Relationships between Price and Online Reputation in Lodgings

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Rodríguez-Díaz ◽  
Crina Rodríguez-Voltes ◽  
Ana Rodríguez-Voltes
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Quadratic Functions ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Customer Reviews ◽  
International Scope ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Online Customer Reviews ◽  
Competitive Prices ◽  
Online Reputation

Currently, lodgings’ competitiveness depends on pricing, based on the online reputation measured by quantitative scales of variables. The purpose of this article is to analyze the different prices set by lodgings by season in relation to the variables that measure their online reputation. This is an essential aspect in determining prices competitively in a constantly changing market. The study analyzes the offer of three tourist destinations (Gran Canaria and Tenerife in Spain and Agadir in Morocco) and online customer reviews on the quality of service, value, and added value obtained from Booking.com. Bivariate regressions with different functions were carried out to determine which one best matches these variables to the prices. The results show that added value has the greater relationship with prices. The cubic and quadratic functions have the best fit between quality of service and added value with regard to lodging prices. Based on the results obtained, it is possible to determine the most competitive prices lodgings can set depending on the quality of service and the added value offered to customers. To the extent that destinations from different countries are analyzed, the research reaches an international scope that is in line with the competitive reality of the tourism market.

Management Practices, Employees' Satisfaction and Perceptions of Quality of Service

1995 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 748-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Burke
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Professional Services ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Quality Service ◽  
Employees Satisfaction ◽  
Professional Services Firm

Economies in the industrialized world have increasingly moved from manufacturing to service industries. This study examined correlations between measures of management practices, employees' satisfaction, and perceptions of service quality among employees of a large professional services firm. 1608 women and men provided data by questionnaire completed anonymously. Employees describing management practices more favorably and employees reporting more positive affective responses perceived the firm as providing higher quality service and products to clients.

Reacting to negative online customer reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rico Piehler ◽  
Michael Schade ◽  
Ines Hanisch ◽  
Christoph Burmann
Keyword(s):  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Purchase Intentions ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Customer Reviews ◽  
Online Customer Reviews ◽  
Reduction Methods ◽  
Hotel Managers ◽  
Potential Customers

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of explanation and compensation, as specific accommodative management responses to negative online customer reviews, on potential customers. Design/methodology/approach The scenario-based online experiment with 306 participants investigates the effects of explanation and compensation on potential customers’ purchase intentions in the hotel segment of the hospitality industry. Findings The results reveal that combining an explanation with compensation is the most effective management response; providing neither an explanation nor compensation is the least effective. The effects of management responses that entail providing only an explanation or compensation do not differ significantly. Research limitations/implications Continued research should investigate the effects of specific accommodative management responses in other service industries and other cultural settings and consider different kinds of explanations and compensation. Practical implications Hotel managers in the hospitality industry should reply to negative online customer reviews by combining an explanation with compensation. Service providers that currently lack structures and procedures to identify service failures and their causes or that cannot take corrective actions should provide compensation. Service providers that currently have limited financial resources should provide explanations. Originality/value This study analyses the effects of explanation and compensation on potential customers’ purchase intentions. In addressing the effects on potential customers, instead of on complainants, the conceptual framework represents a novel combination of management responses from service recovery research with signalling theory, the search-experience-credence framework and risk reduction methods.

scholarly journals Machine learning for assessing quality of service in the hospitality sector based on customer reviews

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Vargas-Calderón ◽  
Andreina Moros Ochoa ◽  
Gilmer Yovani Castro Nieto ◽  
Jorge E. Camargo
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Customer Reviews ◽  
Hospitality Sector

scholarly journals Online Customer Reviews on Restaurants and Expert Opinions: An Integrated Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramazan Göral ◽  
Simge Tokay
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Customer Reviews ◽  
Customer Feedback ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
The People ◽  
Online Customer Reviews ◽  
Food And Beverage

In recent years, online customer reviews have been widespread and it has been taken into account in the point of the decision by the people. Resources which create a virtual environment interaction are developing with the user reviews and ratings and it is increasingly gaining importance for both customers and tourism businesses. Customers, who are evaluating food and beverage consumption as an experience and looking at truelife experiences when deciding which experience to lives, are more increasingly using online resources serving sector. These platforms provide the customers the opportunity of dialoguing among them and provide information while they provide feedback for the improvements for the service providers they need to do. Because of these properties, researchers argue online customer reviews and they express that services restaurant could offer and the quality of them could be compared better by using customer feedback. However, customer review system has been criticized. The point critics pointed is the difficulty of verification reviews and deficiencies in impartiality point. An integrated approach is proposed in this study. Online customer judgments assessing the food and beverage business and expert opinions underlie the integrated approach. For this purpose, the data obtained from TripAdvisor website and expert reviews will be integrated with Analytical Hierarch Process (AHP) method. In the study, restaurants which take place in Turkey’s biggest tourist areas in four provinces and locating in the top 10 according to customer rewievs on TripAdvisor website are evaluated. Then, arithmetical average of the aggregated customer ratings relating to these restaurants and the integration of assessment of experts providing training in food and beverage area are ensured. Consequently, these four provinces’ rank is determined by an integrated approach in terms of restaurants.

Service Quality in Banking with Special Reference to ICICI Bank Ltd., Tiruchirappalli District

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Amudha ◽  
C. Vijaya Banu
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World

As per the Economic association of Indonesia and India, India has been one of the fastest growing economies in the world since the early 90s and India is fourth largest economy of the world after US in terms of purchasing power parity. This is because of the important role played by the financial sector comprising a large number of well managed banking services both in public and private sectors. India's second largest bank is the ICICI Bank offering a wide range of financial services to its customers through its delivery channels. To attain this sustainable competitive advantage, service industries face a unique challenge of meeting the needs of the customers regularly and continuously. Though mechanized form of activity has its own impact on service delivery performance, many service industries still remain to be manual because there exits no equivalent substitute for personal interaction between the employees of service industry and customers. The optimum mix of technology and people in the service delivery process decides the competitive advantage of an organization. Customer satisfaction is taken as a yardstick for measuring the quality of service and providing excellent customer service decides the effectiveness of service delivery process. Only through excellent customer service, an organization can consistently exceed customer expectations. In order to achieve customer satisfaction, every service organization must understand and improve service delivery process and implement valid and reliable service performance measures to measure the same. To assess the degree of customer satisfaction, a SERVQUAL instrument is administered to study the quality of service and the gaps were identified in the services offered by ICICI Bank, Tiruchirapalli District in all five dimensions of service quality, the overall weighted SERVQUAL score being −1.92. The ICICI Bank Ltd. has to take steps to close the gaps by establishing a service quality information system.

scholarly journals ARTI PENTING TINGKAT KEPUASAN PARA PELANGGAN DAN PEMANFAATAN ULASAN DARING

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dewanta Fachrureza
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
Online Review ◽  
Hotel Management ◽  
Customer Reviews ◽  
Online Customer Reviews ◽  
Front Office

<p>ABSTRACT</p><p>This research departs from the curiosity of researchers to find out the extent to which online customer reviews are used at the Ritz Carlton hotel, because hotel management responds well even to the extraordinary in responding to online customer reviews, especially from TripAdvisor. The purpose of this study is to develop and understand the extent to which online review customer reviews are used from TripAdvisor to the department of the front office at the Ritz Carlton Hotel Jakarta. Conclusions from this study are important for hotels to maintain and improve the level of customer satisfaction to improve the quality of hotel services. The researcher also gave several suggestions which stated that there must be a position of work that is responsible for ensuring that all online reviews will be answered and evaluated. In addition, the hotel must invite more guests to comment on TripAdvisor.<br />Keywords: Customer, Customer Satisfaction, Online Review, Front Office Department</p>

scholarly journals Online Customer Reviews on Restaurants and Expert Opinions: An Integrated Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Ramazan Göral ◽  
Simge Tokay
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Customer Reviews ◽  
Customer Feedback ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
The People ◽  
Online Customer Reviews ◽  
Food And Beverage

In recent years, online customer reviews have been widespread and it has been taken into account in the point of the decision by the people. Resources which create a virtual environment interaction are developing with the user reviews and ratings and it is increasingly gaining importance for both customers and tourism businesses. Customers, who are evaluating food and beverage consumption as an experience and looking at truelife experiences when deciding which experience to lives, are more increasingly using online resources serving sector. These platforms provide the customers the opportunity of dialoguing among them and provide information while they provide feedback for the improvements for the service providers they need to do. Because of these properties, researchers argue online customer reviews and they express that services restaurant could offer and the quality of them could be compared better by using customer feedback. However, customer review system has been criticized. The point critics pointed is the difficulty of verification reviews and deficiencies in impartiality point. An integrated approach is proposed in this study. Online customer judgments assessing the food and beverage business and expert opinions underlie the integrated approach. For this purpose, the data obtained from TripAdvisor website and expert reviews will be integrated with Analytical Hierarch Process (AHP) method. In the study, restaurants which take place in Turkey’s biggest tourist areas in four provinces and locating in the top 10 according to customer rewievs on TripAdvisor website are evaluated. Then, arithmetical average of the aggregated customer ratings relating to these restaurants and the integration of assessment of experts providing training in food and beverage area are ensured. Consequently, these four provinces’ rank is determined by an integrated approach in terms of restaurants.

Analisis Kualitas Pelayanan Dalam Pelaksanaan Tera Dan Tera Ulang Alat Ukur, Timbang, Takar Dan Perlengkapannya (UTTP) Pada Bidang Perdagangan Dinas Koperasi, Perindustrian Dan Perdagangan Kabupaten Pacitan

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-173
Author(s):  
Susi Minarsih ◽  
Ary Sutrischastini
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Level Of Service ◽  
Research Use ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Analysis Instrument ◽  
Service Execution ◽  
Traditional Market ◽  
Convenience Sampling

The aims of this study are to measure the level of service quality and how to improve the quality of service execution in re-measurement tera and tera of UTTP in Commerce On duty Co-Operation, Industrial and Commerce Of Sub-Province of Pacitan. This research’s object is traditional market of Minulyo Pacitan as mains market in Sub-Province of Pacitan with 100 perpetrator people of sample as user/owner of UTTP (ukur,timbang, takar, dan perlengkapannya) with method intake of sampel by Convenience Sampling. The technique of collecting data uses questionnaires and direct interview. This research use qualitative analysis instrument test of validity and reliability to know valid or not and reliabel or not about the questions of questionnaire. Then, this research was done with Servqual method as instrument to do measurement of service quality. The measurement of service quality in Servqual method pursuant to five service dimension that is tangibles, responsiveness, realibility, assurance, and empathy. This research will be measured of gap 5 that is difference among performance and its expectation. Ad for yielded gap from a enumeration of Servqual 5 gap, -146 progressively lower him mount the quality of given service activities. Therefore, its needs the existence of priority repair of service quality, in this case is service of remeasurement tera and tera of UTTP at biggest difference or gap that is at variable of Responsiveness ( Energy Listen carefully) and attribute that has smallest difference that is – 0.44 at dimension question of variable of Tangibles ( Evidence Physical). Keyword: Quality Of Service, Method of Service Quality.

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