Authors: Jay Kandampully
ISBN-13: 9780789011411, ISBN-10: 0789011417
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: January 2000
Edition: 1st Edition
Does your staff deliver the highest quality service possible?
Customers today expect a very high overall level of service in hospitality, tourism, and leisure. Competition in these fields will thus be driven by strategies focusing on quality of service to add value, as opposed to product or price differentiation.
Service Quality Management in Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure highlights concepts and strategies that will improve the delivery of hospitality services, and provides clear and simple explanations of theoretical concepts as well as their practical applications! Practitioners and educators alike will find this book to be invaluable in their businesses and in preparing students for the business world.
This essential book provides you with clear, comprehensive explanations of theoretical concepts and methods that will give you the competitive edge in this fast-changing field. Topics covered include:
For managers and educators, a guide to measuring and improving customer satisfaction in a hypercompetitive market. The three editors and 16 contributors are academics in hotel, restaurant, and tourism management, business management, and human resource management in the UK, US, Australia, and New Zealand. The work is an effort to provide a holistic, interdisciplinary view of what service quality is and how it can be managed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
About the Editors | ||
Contributors | ||
Preface | ||
Ch. 1 | Concepts of Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure Services | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Unique Characteristics of Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure Services | 5 |
Ch. 3 | Service Quality Concepts and Dimensions Pertinent to Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure Services | 51 |
Ch. 4 | The Impact of People, Process, and Physical Evidence on Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure Service Quality | 67 |
Ch. 5 | Understanding the Role of the Service Encounter in Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure Services | 85 |
Ch. 6 | Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction, and Value: An Examination of Their Relationships | 97 |
Ch. 7 | Competitive Advantages of Service Quality in Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure Services | 111 |
Ch. 8 | Approaches to Enhance Service Quality Orientation in the United Kingdom: The Role of the Public Sector | 123 |
Ch. 9 | Service Quality Monitoring and Feedback Systems | 143 |
Ch. 10 | Measuring Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction | 159 |
Ch. 11 | Managing Service Failure Through Recovery | 193 |
Ch. 12 | Empowering Service Personnel to Deliver Quality Service | 223 |
Ch. 13 | Service Guarantee: An Organization's Blueprint for Assisting the Delivery of Superior Service | 239 |
Ch. 14 | Managing and Marketing Internal and External Relationships | 255 |
Ch. 15 | Cross-Cultural Issues in Service Quality | 269 |
Ch. 16 | Technology and Its Impact on Service Quality | 281 |
Ch. 17 | Delivering on Service: What Are the Questions and Challenges for Tomorrow's "Virtual University"? | 297 |
Index | 319 |