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directions for GPT operators and tour guides to improve tourism management and tourist experiences. Social implications This … study contributes to tourism literature about customer-to-customer interaction by identifying the major categories of other … affect the travel experiences of a domestic GPT participant. Tourism firms can formulate better strategies and staff training …
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Purpose – This paper is based on the empirical study of human resources and service work and its purpose is to reveal that the international hotel industry is becoming more standardized. The argument presented here is that progressive standardization within customized service production is...
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extent of outreach of hospitality services to customers. Design/methodology/approach – After a review of several hospitality … services, two factors were selected to assess their outreach to customers: location of service provider; and direct or indirect … features of these services. It became apparent that, as the technological innovations develop, new categories of services are …
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Two experiments examined the effectiveness of service recovery strategies in situations where the service firm made customers wait even though they had made a reservation. The recovery strategies ‐ apology only, assistance, compensation, assistance plus compensation ‐ which reflected...
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services. Based on the review, the conceptualization and operationalization of EIB are summarized, and the relationships … between job characteristics and EIB are revealed. Design/methodology/approach Altogether, 143 papers examining EIB in services …. Findings Three approaches to examine EIB in services have been identified. The concept of EIB based on the reviewed papers is …
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Purpose – The objective of this paper is to describe the teleological actions needed to assess and manage critical incidents that cause negative emotions in service encounters. Teleological actions are movements into the future that are believed to be move either towards a predictable/known or...
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Romania. Findings – The results of SEM suggest that emotional exhaustion functions as a full mediator of the effects of work … performance through data gathered from frontline hotel employee‐manager dyads in Romania.  …
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frontline employees in the international five- and four-star chain hotels with a time lag of two weeks in three waves in Romania …
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Focuses on the estimation of the contribution of the hotel industry to Hong Kong’s gross domestic product (GDP) and an analysis of the factors influencing the hotel industry’s recent and likely future contribution to the GDP. The investigation also covers a method of speeding up the...
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Co‐operation is crucial to the successful marketing of tourism destinations, and electronic commerce offers exciting … new opportunities for co‐operation among tourism suppliers. This article examines the reciprocal linking of Websites to … create “virtual” tourism destination organisations, whereby consumers can access information and purchase multiple components …
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