scholarly journals The Effects of Malaysian Hotels Services on Customer Loyalty

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 287-292
Author(s):  
Yousef Keshavarz

In recent years, the tourism industry has become more important in terms of the global economy. It is revealed that inbound tourism has become one of the major trade categories. Like other countries in Malaysia several industries involve to attract tourists in the country. The hotel industry is one of these industries affects tourists to be satisfied and desire to visit the place again. Service quality is the most important factor by which hotels influence their guests to be loyal; therefore in this study the effect of service quality on tourist loyalty will be investigated. Factors of service quality, which affected from the expected service quality and affect tourist loyalty, include tangible, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy. In this study, guests of hotels, apartments and budget hotels are considered as the research population and 500 respondents from both domestic and international tourists are selected by clustering sampling. The finding of this study is helpful for hoteliers to understand the demands of their customer from different countries with different cultures and plan new strategies to meet their needs and influence them to be loyal on hotels.

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erna Andajani

The Leisure and tourism industry in East java has shown good improvement and brought impact to hotel industry, As we know hotel is one of the businesses that depend mostly on service quality that perceived by the customers. In otherway, hotel also has aspect of physical and non physical facility, and categorized by government in order like five star hotel, four star hotel, and so on. Some of customer has shown that they do not really care about this rank, but on what, service quality they perceived.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 451
Author(s):  
Gempur Perdana Adha Putra ◽  
Ariyo Bramantory

Indonesia’s tourism industry has developed very rapidly, it’s characterized by the increasing number of tourist both foreign tourists. Form of tourism businesses that are currently experiencing a fairly rapid increase in the hotel industry as tourism support facilities. Customer loyalty is important in the hotel industry. A decline loyalty in Royal Vanessa Hotel is seen from the decrease in occupancy rate repeat guests. Decrease in the level of loyalty is a major threat to the hotel industry because of the presence of this loyalty will decrease the thread indicated a decrease in corporate profits. If a decline in profit the company will have an impact on the company’s losses. Moreover, the adverse effect that will be received from the company is going to decrease the loss of customer loyalty that will turn to another hotel. So do implementation of continuity marketing and one to one marketing program in an effort to increase customer loyalty at the Royal Vanessa Hotel. Respondents of this study is a repeat guest Royal Vanessa Hotel. The method which is used in this research is descriptive and verifikatif, with the survey explanatory method and cross section approach. Sample size of 100 respondents from existing population by using the formula slovin. The data used are primary data and secondary data collected through observation, questionnaires, literature study and interviews. The purpose of this research was to determine how much influence the implementation of continuity marketing and one to one marketing program in an effort to increase customer loyalty at Royal Vanessa Hotel. The results of this study is that there is continuity of influence between the implementation of marketing programs and one to one marketing in an effort to increase customer loyalty at the Royal Hotel Vanessa. Smallest degree of influence in an effort to improve customer loyalty is to the implementation of marketing continuity program, it needs to be fixed by the Royal Hotel with fixing Vanessa Operational Standards (SOP) regarding the marketing continuity program and also the hotel in order to add the programs other than programs that has been done. Thus may increase the effects of the implementation of continuity marketing program in an effort to increase customer loyalty.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-164
Author(s):  
Sefnedi Sefnedi

This studyexamined the intervening effect of customer satisfaction on the relationship between service quality and customer loyalty and the role of customer value as moderating. The research population is all entire communities who received service quality of birth certificate issuance in the period of August-December 2014that accounted for 351customers and the numbers of usable samples were 187 customers.In order to test hypotheses, this study performs simple and hierarchical regression analyses. The results of analysis displayed that service quality positively influences customer satisfaction and customer loyalty, customer satisfaction was found to have positive effect on customer loyalty, customer satisfaction was proven as intervening variable on the relationship between service quality and customer loyalty, and customer value moderated the relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction. Keywords:Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Value, and Customer Loyalty.


2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 417-430
Author(s):  
Hossein Bodaghi Khajeh Nobar ◽  
Reza Rostamzadeh

This research aims to investigate the impact of customer satisfaction, experience, and loyalty on brand power in the Hotel industry. This study used a descriptive-survey research design based on the correlation method. The selected populations were Pars Hotels’ customers. Sample size was 384, based on Krejcie and Morgan’s sampling table. The structural equation modeling was used to evaluate the causal simulation and to examine the reliability and validity of the measuring model. The research results showed that customer expectation has the most impact on customer satisfaction with path coefficient of 0.74. On the other hand, customer loyalty, with path coefficient of 0.65, is known as an influential factor. This study helps to understand that customer satisfaction and customer expectations are positive drivers of customer loyalty. Customer loyalty also is a strong predictor of brand power in hoteling and tourism industry. By strengthening that part, which you have better resources, you can have a better supply and thus, there would be more opportunities in establishing reputation and increasing visibility.


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