Business ought to understand their customers' needs and wants, if they want to remain successful in a competitive market place. Therefore, this chapter introduces its readers to market research as tourism businesses continuously require information on their customers. In this light, a well...

Research studies on brand transgression (BT), service failure and recovery (SFR), and product-harm crisis (PHC) appear to have a common focus, yet the three streams developed surprisingly independently and with limited reference to one another. This situation is unfortunate because all three...

This research integrates the congruity and the social identity theories to better understand the consumer-brand relationships. A structural equation modelling approach was used to explore the drivers of brand loyalty in the context of upscale hotels. The findings suggest that the customers are...

Purpose: This research identifies the critical factors of online service delivery of electronic commerce (ecommerce) websites, including website attractiveness, website functionality, website security and consumer fulfillment during an unprecedented Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic....

While previous research investigated the effects of online consumer reviews on purchase behaviors, currently, there is still a lack of knowledge on the impact of the reviews' credibility, content quality and information usefulness on the customers’ satisfaction levels with them. Data were...

The study attempt to explore the level of customer satisfaction in terms of physical evidence and employee interaction in comparison between earlier established banks (before the year 2008) and newly established banks (after 2008) in the northern region of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. Results indicate...

The problem addressed in this study is that the impact of the customer experience on the achievement of positive customer outcomes is still unknown in Arabic restaurants. Hence, the aim of this study is to explore the effect of brand experience, as measured through sensory, emotional,...

The study aims to investigate the relationship between service failure recovery, customer recovery satisfaction, and attitude loyalty for airline industry. The author propose an experimentally determined model of service recovery based on the function of brand authenticity as a moderator in this...

Purpose of This Paper This paper examines call center satisfaction in an escalated call center context where callers are organization members of the primary/leveraged brand and have purchased additional co-branded services as part of their membership. The relationship between call center...

The branding progression is moulded in several phases, from identifying the brand and continuing to its evangelism. The paper investigates the complex relationship between how brand identification leads to brand love, which eventually creates brand loyalty, and all of them together lead to brand...