Managing tourism and hospitality services : theory and international applications /

This book aims to enhance theoretical and practical understanding of quality management in tourism and hospitality. Part I (chapters 1-5) deals with the core issue of managing customer satisfaction. Part II (chapters 6-8) focuses on structural issues, particularly competition and collaboration, both...

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Other Authors: Prideaux, B. (Bruce), Moscardo, Gianna (Editor), Laws, Eric, 1945- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire : CABI, 2006
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Managing Customer Satisfaction
  • Quality and Service Management Perspectives / Eric Laws, Bruce Prideaux, and Gianna Moscardo
  • Convention Delegates : The Relationship between Satisfaction with the Convention and with the Host Destination : A Case Study / Marg Deery and Leo Jago
  • Issues Pertaining to Service Recovery in the Tourism and Leisure Industries / Shane Pegg and Ji-Hyun Suh
  • Is Near Enough Good Enough? Understanding and Managing Customer Satisfaction with Wildlife Based Tourism Experiences / Gianna Moscardo
  • Management of Tourism : Conformation to Whose Standards? / Noel Scott
  • Part II: Competition and Collaboration
  • Case Study : TISCOVER : Development and Growth / Dimitrios Buhalis, Karsten Kärcher, and Matthew Brown
  • Co-Branding in the Restaurant Industry / Maryam Khan
  • Airline Service Quality in an Era of Deregulation / Dawna Rhoades, Rosemarie Reynolds, and Blaise Waguespack
  • Part III: Service Design and Improvement
  • Service System : A StrategicApproach to Innovate and Manage Service Superiority / Jay Kandampully and Ria Kandampully
  • Marketing Tourism On-Line / Lorri Kreb and Geoffrey Wall
  • Guidelines for Professional Activity Services In Tourism : A Discussion About the Quality of a Tourist Experience Product / Raija Komppula
  • Tourism Development : Hard Core or Soft Touch? / Fiona Williams and Marsaili MacLeod
  • Quality Management for Events / Donald Getz and Jack Carlson
  • CAVIAR : Canterbury and Vladimir International Action for Regeneration : a case study for techniques for integrated marketing, service quality and destination management / Barbara Le Pelley and William Pettit.
  • Part IV: Managing Staff : Customer Relations
  • Coping with the 'Performance' of Emotional Labour in the Tourism and Hospitality Industries / Barbara Anderson
  • Service Ethics for Ecotourism Guides (NB
  • chapter on manuscript titled: "Guiding Chinese Group Tours in Australia: An Analysis Using Role Theory") / Xin Yu and Betty Weiler
  • Effective Management of Hotel Revenue : Lessons from the Swiss Hotel Industry / Kate Varini and Dimitrios Diamantis
  • Service Management in A World Heritage Area : Tourists, Cultures and the Environment / Malcolm Cooper and Patricia Erfurt
  • The Relationship Between Airline Cabin Service and National Culture : A Cabin Crew Perspective / Bruce Prideaux and Samuel S. Kim
  • Considerations in Improving Service Systems / Eric Laws
  • Part V: Researching Tourism And Hospitality Service Management
  • The Role of Research in Improving Tourism and Hospitality Services : Measuring Service Quality / Simon Hudson, Graham A. Miller and Paul Hudson
  • Service Quality at The Cellar Door : A Lesson in Services Marketing From Western Australia's Wine Tourism Sector / Martin O'Neill and Steve Charters
  • Using the Critical Incidents Technique to Understand Service Quality in Tourist Accommodation / Gianna Moscardo
  • Factors of Satisfaction : A Case Study of Explore Park / Muzaffer Uysal
  • The Value of a Benchmarking Approach for Assessing Service Quality Satisfaction in Environmental Tourism / Philip L Pearce
  • The Development and Tracking of a Branding Campaign for Brisbane / Noel Scott and Stephen Clark
  • The Rasch Model Applied to Customer Satisfaction in Marbella / José L. Santos-Arrebola
  • Part VI: Conclusion
  • Researching and Managing Tourism and Hospitality Service : Challenges and Conclusions / Gianna Moscardo, Bruce Prideaux and Eric Laws.