EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Customer service is the service provided to customers before‚ during and after purchasing and using goods and services. Good customer service provides an experience that meets customer expectations. It produces satisfied customers. Bad customer service can generate complaints. It can result in lost sales‚ because consumers might take their business to a competitor. Good customer service involves developing bonds with customers‚ hopefully leading to long term relationships. It
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Service Quality By definition‚ a service includes several distinct characteristics. A service is intangible and difficult to store. In a service‚ customers are extensively present as participants in the process. The inseparability of a service is due to the fact that it is simultaneously produced by the provider and consumed by the customer. This is because services are heterogeneous and known to vary from service – provider to service – provider‚ from customer to customer‚ and from day to day
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Disintermediation and Re-intermediation on travel agents Introduction This report will discuss about how travel agents market is influenced by disintermediation and re-intermediation and what is the impact on industry and travel agencies. The travel industry‚ is the substance in the sphere of information technology‚ is beyond any doubt a fascinating area in terms of the options given by Internet. One of the considerable increses in electronic market is travel bookings noted by Berstein and Awe‚ 1999
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Service Quality Dimension of SriLankan Airlines Service Marketing (MKT 3113) Individual Assignment Department of Marketing Management Faculty of Commerce & Management Eastern University‚ Sri Lanka B.Sarangan EU/IS/2007/MS/65 Index No: - MS 885 Contents Introduction to Services Marketing 02 Specific Characteristics of Services 02 7 Ps of Services Marketing 02 Service Quality 04 Dimensions of Service Quality 04 5 Dimensions of Service Quality 05 SriLankan
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1. Why is quality a difficult term to define? How can we improve our understanding of quality? As we can see quality is difficult term to define because quality is not an attribute of the object or product‚ it is a perception that relates a person observing or using a product to that product. Hence‚ quality is not absolute‚ but relative. In the lifecycle of a product‚ quality might be different along the stages. A new product could be a quality product if it is chock full of bells and whistles
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Measuring Perceived Service Quality Using s e rv q ua l: A Case Study of the Croatian Hotel Industry ´ s u z ana m ar k ovi c Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management Opatija‚ Croatia s an j a r as p o r Polytechnic of Rijeka‚ Croatia The purpose of the study is to examine customers’ perceptions of service quality in the Croatian hotel industry. The aim is to assess the perceived service quality of hotel attributes and to determine the factor structure of service quality perception. A modified
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MKTG1255 – SERVICE QUALITY PRACTICE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS THE QUESTIONS ARE FOR PRACTICE ONLY. THERE IS NO INDICATION THAT YOU WILL BE ASKED THE SAME QUESTION(S) IN THE FINAL EXAM. 1. ____________ represent a special type of order taking that entitles customers to a specific unit of service. a. Suggestions b. Reservations c. Trackers d. Repossessions e. Contracts 2. Which of the following is NOT considered an example of a hospitality element? a. Greeting b. Toilets and washrooms c. Advice
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Measuring the Service Quality of Service Sector - A Case of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia R.Renjith Kumar‚ Asst. Prof and Head of the Department‚ Ilahia School of Management Studies‚ Ilahia College of Engineering and Technology‚ Muvattupuzha‚ Kerala Abstract Service sector is growing in Ethiopia which basically an agrarian country is trying to become a developing country in the North Eastern Africa. Banking services have gained significant role in this country due to increasing number of customers
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Measuring the services quality of Celcom Broadband in Politeknik Kota Kinabalu Azrin Bin Jalasi Jabatan Perdagangan Politeknik Kota Kinabalu azrin@polikk.edu.my Noorain Imbug Jabatan Perdagangan Politeknik Kota Kinabalu Noorain@polikk.edu.my Ramdan Ali Jabatan Perdagangan Politeknik Kota Kinabalu Ramdan@polikk.edu.my Abstract The main focus of this study is to investigate the customers’ satisfaction towards the Celcom Broadband services quality in Politeknik Kota Kinabalu
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Topic Review Question Topic 6: Designing Quality Service 1. Explain the reason why quality techniques in the service industry are less mature than quality techniques for manufactured products. Give your opinion‚ what can be done to bring quality techniques for the services industry up to a higher level? As discussed in Question 3‚ product quality has been in existence far longer than service quality. Tools such as SERVUAL and gap analysis are being pressed into use. Concepts like the interrelationships
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