• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.109-123
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to analyze the differences in the deluxe hotels'service quality in Korea according to the region and the brand. The subjects of this survey for the empirical analysis are limited to the customers of deluxe hotels in Korea: data(1,054 samples) are collected from 16 deluxe hotels among 27 of its kind in Seoul, Pusan, Cheju and Kyongju areas. The results are as follows. First, the hotel service quality between the hotels in Seoul and in provinces makes little difference. Second, the service quality in the Seoul, Pusan, Cheju and Kyongju areas shows significant difference. Third, there is also a significant difference on the service quality between domestic hotel brand and foreign-chained hotel brand.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.260-274
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• 2007

This research explores the intension of repeatable guests through on the wedding facilities, employees' service ability, and banquet menu. First, wedding facilities include transportation, parking lots, subsidiary facilities, reception desks, Paebaek Rooms, and waiting rooms for brides. Secondly, according to the analysis for service quality of hotel wedding feasts, respondence and sympathy were not be fully considered while good effects showed through materiality, reliability and conviction. Thirdly, hotels will be expected to have re-visiting guests when the guests have good experience on the hotel facilities and satisfying menu. Alternatively, menu would have a negative result if there's not satisfying service. Employees should be aware of the list of menu and can be able to offer a suggestion. In other words, a banquet has to be prepared not only with fresh or seasoned ingredients but with good service to make the guests revisit. Therefore, we should be aware of what our guests want and how to prepare for their satisfaction.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.29-41
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• 2011

As industires are evolving into a more advanced type industrial system, service economy has been more emphasized. But with the expansion of the service economy, the failure of the service has also increased. Customers flee caused by the service failure leads to from simple problems like financial loss to serious problems like damaging corporate image. Therefore, if possible, the system providing defect-free service should be established. If this is not possible, preventive measures should be taken in order to minimize the failure. The study as a tool to prevent service failure presents the concepts "service error matrix." And to confirm whether this idea is practical or not, this study investigated the hotel, one of the leading service industries, about actually occurring service failure and applied to service error matrix suggested in this study. Finally service blueprint and Poka-yoke are completed in order to reduce service failure of Y hotel which was the object of the interview for this study.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.25-37
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is about the influence of the Service quality on the customer loyalty depending on the customer value(social and psychological value, functional value) because of the dynamic business environment is react quickly and flexibly, many of today's companies are required to consult an expert. According to the circumstances, Service Firms(Hotel) should be provide a differentiated service for each customer. And this paper attempt to theoretical organize and take advantage of practical in Service industry. The questionaries of 154 from the companies which have received Service in 3 years in the metropolis and small and medium-sized cities were used to test hierarchical regression model with mediating effects of customer value between Service quality and Customer loyalty by SPSS(PASW) 18.0 version. From these analyses, the following results were obtained: First, social-psychological value have partially mediated effect on the tangibility, responsibility, assurance and customer loyalty. Second, functional value have partially mediated effects on the between tangibles, reliability and customer loyalty. The result suggests that 'tangibility', 'reliability', 'responsibility', 'assurance', 'empathy' are the most important factors to affect customer loyalty, and there are partially mediated effects of customer intention between Service quality and Customer loyalty. In conclusion, to improve the specific and actual meaning and value about the Hotel service quality and to give the suggestions on the Hotel's marketing communication by understanding the customer action.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.513-523
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• 2021

This study verified the effect of Hotel Drive through Service Quality between Customer Satisfaction and Oncontinuous usage Intention. In addition, by injecting the variable of the Hotel Brand Image between Hotel Drive through Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction, we tried to find out the effect of the Moderating Role. Convenience sampling was used for customers who recently experienced Hotel Drive through Service, which is operated mainly in Seoul. It has been held for about 40 days from December 2020. The survey tool constructed through prior research was distributed to customers who experienced Hotel Drive through Service in Seoul. 289 copies of the collected effective samples were statistically processed using SPSS 22.0. As a result of the analysis, it was found that hypothesis 1 and hypothesis 2 had a significant influence relationship. The Tangibility^*Hotel Brand Image and physical environment^*Hotel Brand Image in Hypothesis 3 were found to have a modulating effect with a significant positive (+) effect. However, it was found that Responsiveness^*Hotel Brand Image and Reliability^*Hotel Brand Image had no control effect.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.7 no.11
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• pp.967-976
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• 2020

This study aims to improve knowledge of consumers' decision-making by testing a conceptual model that considers the hotel's service quality and service value toward customers' behavioral intentions using a mediator, which is the role of consumers' satisfaction. The object of this research is five-star hotels, which has become a significant segment of the general hotel industry and is undergoing rapid expansion. This research is a quantitative research using questionnaire as the sampling method answered by people who have stayed at five-star hotels before. The total of 150 valid respondents were used in this study. The collected data was processed by a statistical tool software, Partial Least Square (PLS). The major findings of this research showed that the relations between service quality and service value of five-star hotels do not have significant positive impact on consumers' behavioral intention, nonetheless the mediation analysis shows that customers' satisfaction partially mediates service quality and service value with consumers' behavioral intentions to stay. It means that in this case, consumers' satisfaction has an important role to mediate service value quality and service value. As a result, the study shows that four out of six hypotheses are supported. A couple of recommendations are suggested for further research.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.359-367
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• 2010

The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of the recognition on hotel customer's economic environment on attributes of hotel selection and customer loyalty. This research could suggest that the results of this research will help to establish positive strategies in all the processes of decision-making by customers who directly influence the behaviors of hotel customers as data of management of hotel companies. Firstly, detailed verification findings of regression analysis the recognition on economic environment and attributes of hotel selection were suggested as following; Recognition on economic environment influenced on guest room service, front service, food and beverage service, general environment, subsidiary facilities. Secondly, in case of the recognition on economic environment and customer loyalty, outer economy environment and information environment effected on customer loyalty.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.29-36
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• 2015

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of effective role-play and training on employee education satisfaction and customer orientation. Evidence of the suggested objective is obtained by monitoring the effectiveness of hotel service training. Research design, data, and methodology - Data were collected from 280 role-play sessions performed in a Korean Hotel and examined using a frequency analysis, reliability/validity assessments, correlation analysis, and regression analysis using SPSS 19.0. Results - 1) Entrepreneurs and training instructors should enthusiastically apply service education in order to enhance each employee d evaluation in terms of customer satisfaction and customer orientation. 2) The most effective factor on customer satisfaction and orientation is the instructor's qualifications. 3) Since a higher level of education-training satisfaction leads to better customer orientation, effective education-training is essential to achieve this result. Conclusions - The study was able to obtain practical evidence that can confirm that service education-training through role-play positively affects employee customer service orientation. In future advanced research on training effects on customer orientation, various internal factors of a business should also be considered.

• Journal of Applied Tourism Food and Beverage Management and Research
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.85-107
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• 2006

The study reviewed a literature on a role and importance of physical environment of a hotel service and determinant factors including a renovation. Also, the study showed how the service physical environment influenced satisfaction, quality of relationship, and customer loyalty. The Sampling method used a convenience sampling of non-probability sampling methods. samples were from domestic customers experience the hotel services for more than five years of the 1st deluxe hotel in seoul. The collected 200 questionnaires were used to analyze empirically. Regression analysis were used to verify hypotheses. Service physical environment influenced satisfaction, quality of relationship and customer loyalty significantly.

• Korean Business Review
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.175-191
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to findout the effect of using of the hotel information system(HIS) on the hotel service quality. To show how important the using level of the information system in the hotel, we surveyed some domestic and overseas deluxe hotels. For an empirical analysis, Authors have collected 574 questionaires from 4 countries during Feburary to August, 2003. Factor Analysis and Regression Analysis were applied in this research. The results are as follows: There are a close relation between using level of the hotel information systems and service quality. Authors insists that to maximize service quality efficiency in the hotel, a balanced using level of the information system should be made in the following fields: front-office operating system(FOS), back-office operating system(BOS), outlet operating system(OOS) and interface operating system(IOS).