scholarly journals Assessing Customer Satisfaction Towards Service Quality in the Hospitality Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
Siti Rapidah Omar Ali ◽  
Siti Norsuhaizam Norizan ◽  
Nur Shafini Mohd Said ◽  
Khalid Amin Mat ◽  
Fatanah Jislan

It is proven true that the main subjects addressed by every service industry nowadays are service quality and customer satisfaction. Hence, virtuous customers’ evaluation of services is crucial for the firms. Delivering good quality service is leading to attain today’s competitive environment. This study attempts to assess the relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction in the hotel industry in Malaysia. SERVQUAL model of service quality has been used to measure the relationship between three independent variables namely Tangibility, Reliability and Responsiveness and a dependent variable that is customer satisfaction. A number of 217 hotel guests in a three-star hotel in Kuala Terengganu were selected as a sample by using a convenience sampling method. The questionnaire was used as a research instrument in a survey approach. The findings indicated that all three dimensions of service quality have a positive relationship with customer satisfaction. Responsiveness seems to be the most significant factor in satisfaction. This study contributes to the enhancement and standardization of service quality management in firms especially the hotel industry in Malaysia. The findings would offer better understanding and recommendations for hotel management transformation and practices.

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (07) ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Bello Yekinni Ojo Ph.D., ◽  
Bello Mercy Busayo ◽  
Ifegbu Lawrencia Ifeoma Ph. D

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
AFIF SYAIFUL RACHMAN

This study aims to find out "The Effect of Product Quality, Service Quality, Customer Valueon Customer Satisfaction and Promotion of Mouth to Mouth". The population in this studywere Telkom customers of IndiHome. This study uses a sample of 150 respondents. Thesampling technique was carried out by convenience sampling method. Data analysis usespath analysis. The results of the analysis show that product quality, service quality,customer value have positive effect on the customer satisfaction of Telkom IndiHome,Purwokerto, (2) Service quality has a positive effect on the customer satisfaction and wordof mouth


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Alex Witama

It has often been argued that customer satisfaction can contribute significantly to a company’s success in a variety of ways. This study aims to analyze the effect of brand image, perceived price and service quality on customer satisfaction. The method of data collection is convenience sampling. The samples of this research are collected from 109 respondents, who are the customers in one of the biggest smartphone service center in Jakarta. The technique of data analysis used in this study was regression analysis. The result is: the relationship between brand image, perceived price and service quality have a significant and positive impact toward customer satisfaction.


Author(s):  
Hsing-Yun Chang ◽  
Cho-Pu Lin ◽  
Meng-Yun Tsou ◽  
Chien-Ting Chen

The senior-care market has been on the rise in Taiwan, especially in rural areas. Soaring competition among senior-care operators has led to escalating consumer demands on performances, driving the industry to become more customer-oriented. The authors examined the relationship between service quality of senior care and customer satisfaction in rural Taiwan based on Parasuraman, Zeithmal and Berrys SERVQUAL ten dimensions (i.e., access, communication, competence, courtesy, credibility, reliability, responsiveness, security, tangibles and understanding the customer) and Lees food service. Multiple regression was conducted to test the relationships. The statistical results showed that access, courtesy and food service are significantly and positively related to customer satisfaction. This finding, among others, suggests that senior-care operators in rural Taiwan might have overlooked the above mentioned three dimensions as factors leading to customer satisfaction and, ultimately, to a sustainable competitive edge.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-162
Author(s):  
SYED NASEEB ULLAH SHAH ◽  
DR. QADAR BAKHSH BALOCH

The phenomenon of Quality of service, as the degree of excellence at an acceptable price, has gained a pivotal place in the success or failure of a business or gaining and maintaining customer satisfaction over the years. The research study aimedto compare the mean score of KPK, Punjab and Islamabad hotel customer’s mean score and to recommend strategies for improving managerial efficiency and operational effectiveness in improvising and sustaining service quality so as to gain and sustain customer satisfaction and brand loyalty. The population included hotels having restaurants and living accommodation both, and stratified on the bases of geography located in selected cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamabad and Lahore. The sample of hotel , worked out on the bases of 10hotels from each location and 20 customers from each hotel, comprises of 60 hotels and 1200 customers from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and 20 hotels and 400 customers forum Islamabad and Lahore . The paired samples t-test used to compare the mean score difference about the customers of KPK, Punjab and Islamabad Pakistan found that there is significance difference between the mean score of Punjab and KPK customers on service quality attributes. The mean score of Punjab customers is and Islamabad customers are found that there is significance difference between the mean score for Punjab and customers on service quality attributes. The research contributes theoretically and practically to the Hotel service industry and customer satisfaction in Pakistan which is supported by the empirical evidence and would help the Pakistan’s Hotel industry to improve its business performance through improving their service quality and adding in to their customer satisfaction.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
Zulkifli Zainuddin

This study aims to determine the influence of promotion and quality of service to customer satisfaction in Restaurant XYZ Jakarta. The population in this study is the visitors who visited the XYZ Tebet Restaurant period of December 17, 2017. Sampling will stop after the fulfillment of the time range for 5 days and obtained the number of samples of 35 respondents with convenience sampling method. The analysis test used in this research is factor analysis test. The results of this study indicate that the factors that are most able to explain the quality of service is a factor is the ability factor to help visitors. This factor consists of: (1) Physical facilities (3) Responsiveness, (4) Able to help (5) Friendly (6) Polite. The second factor is the waiter has a firm nature consisting of a firm attitude. Keywords: service quality


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
RIDHWAN RIDHWAN ◽  
LUCKY ENGGRANI FITRI ◽  
RACHMAT HIDAYAT

This study aimed to know the direct effect of service quality, on the satisfaction and trust of Muslim patients in Arafah Islamic hospital in Jambi city. The design of this study used a quantitative method with a survey approach to obtain primary data, namely by distributing questionnaires to 140 inpatients in Arafah Islamic hospital in Jambi city using the purposive sampling method. Then quantitative data was processed using Structural Equation Model (SEM) with the application of SmartPLS 3. The results of this study indicated that service quality has a significant effect on satisfaction and trust, as well as satisfaction has a significant effect on trust. This research was expected to make a practical contribution to management of Islamic hospital for an effort to increase patient satisfaction and trust.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Keni Keni ◽  
Kavira Kamate Sandra

Pertumbuhan tingkat penjualan ritel di Indonesia bernilai negatif selama satu tahun terakhir. Berbagai fenomena yang terjadi akibat pandemi yang sudah berlangsung sejak tahun 2020 menyebabkan penurunan tersebut, seperti pengurangan gaji dan pemutusan hubungan kerja yang berdampak terhadap penurunan daya beli masyarakat, sehingga menghambat kinerja perusahaan ritel. Oleh sebab itu, perusahaan ritel perlu memperbaiki kinerjanya dengan meningkatkan loyalitas pelanggan yang merupakan sebuah upaya untuk mempertahankan pelanggan yang sudah ada. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji apakah 1) pengalaman pelanggan dapat memprediksi kepuasan pelanggan. 2) kualitas pelayanan dapat memprediksi kepuasan pelanggan. 3) pengalaman pelanggan dapat memprediksi loyalitas pelanggan. 4) kualitas pelayanan dapat memprediksi loyalitas pelanggan. 5) kepuasan pelanggan dapat memprediksi loyalitas pelanggan. 6) kepuasan pelaggan memediasi prediksi pengalaman pelanggan pada loyalitas pelanggan. 7) kepuasan pelanggan memediasi prediksi kualitas pelayanan pada loyalitas pelanggan. Sampel dipilih dengan menggunakan metode non-probability sampling yang berupa teknik convenience sampling pada 200 responden dan Partial Least Square – Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) dilakukan untuk menguji hipotesis penelitian. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa pengalaman pelanggan dan kualitas pelayanan berpengaruh signifikan untuk memprediksi kepuasan pelanggan, pengalaman pelanggan memiliki pengaruh signifikan untuk memprediksi loyalitas pelanggan, kualitas pelayanan tidak berpengaruh signifikan untuk memprediksi loyalitas pelanggan, kepuasan pelanggan memiliki pengaruh signifikan untuk memprediksi loyalitas pelanggan, dan kepuasan pelanggan memediasi prediksi pengalaman pelanggan dan kualitas pelayanan pada loyalitas pelanggan.  Retail’s sales-growth in Indonesia has been decreasing since last year. Various phenomenons which are caused by the pandemic that has been happening since 2020 has caused the decrease, such as reduction in salary and laid off that resulted in reducing purchasing power which then obstruct retail firm’s performance. Therefore, retail firms should improve their performance by increasing customer loyalty which is an attempt to retain existing customers. This research aimed to examine whether 1) customer experience can predict customer satisfaction.  2) service quality can predict customer satisfaction. 3) customer experience can predict customer loyalty. 4) service quality can predict customer loyalty. 5) customer satisfaction can predict customer loyalty. 6) customer satisfaction mediates the prediction customer experience on customer loyalty. 7) customer satisfaction mediates the prediction service quality on customer loyalty. The sample of this study was selected by using the non-probability sampling method, which is convenience sampling method, with a total amount of 200 respondents and Partial Least Square – Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was conducted for the hypotheses testing. The findings of this study illustrate that customer experience and service quality has significant effect to predict customer satisfaction, customer experience has significant effect to predict customer loyalty, service quality has not significant effect to predict customer loyalty, customer satisfaction has significant effect to predict customer loyalty, customer satisfaction mediates the prediction of customer experience and service quality on customer loyalty.


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