Tourism Management - AD Graduation Assignment: Customer experiene - ServQual

This handbook focuses on conceptualizing, designing, staging, managing and marketing paradigms of tourism experiences from both supply and demand perspectives. It sheds substantial light on the contemporary theories, practices and future developments in the arena of experiential tourism management and marketing.

The topic of 'experience' is becoming central to a proper and full understanding of consumer behaviour and the book covers the key sectors where it is a critical factor- from resort management and tourist information to destination marketing. International in scope and applicability it backs up the theory throughout with relevant case materials, questions and exercises.

This book focuses on designing, staging and managing experiences within the context of the events, tourism and hospitality industries. It also illustrates current and future developments in these industries and wider society, with an emphasis on sustainable development. The book offers an innovative approach for successfully creating experiences for (potential) customers that is based on combining insights and methods from the world of design and the social sciences. Moreover, it shows how the experience economy and sustainable development both reinforce one another and create challenges that businesses and professionals can address through this approach.

Service Marketing, a subset of the field of marketing, has evolved and developed a range of theories and models all focused on providing superior services offerings to today's market and it's growing expectations of service delivery. New research provides additional contemporary insights into this dynamic and developing area. This text seeks to address the current research and its managerial implications, specifically by including new case studies and integrating new research results and new perspectives on the various aspects of services

The book from the developers of the ' GAP ' model of service quality and SERVQUAL the instrument to measure customers' perception of service quality.

Voor een groeiend aantal organisaties is klantbeleving de sleutel tot succes. Een goede klantbeleving leidt tot loyale klanten, spontane aanbevelingen en commercieel resultaat. De belangrijkste methodiek om dit succes te behalen is de customer journey, het centrale thema van dit boek. Basisboek Customer Journey is speciaal ontwikkeld om hbo-studenten kennis te laten maken met klantbeleving en de customer journey. Via praktische technieken en tips biedt het boek inzicht in hoe klantbeleving en customer journeys kunnen worden ingezet om optimale resultaten te behalen, voor de klant en voor de organisatie. Er is aandacht voor de manieren waarop organisaties een emotionele connectie kunnen maken met klanten en medewerkers. Studenten leren vanuit de reis van de klant te kijken, denken en doen. Het boek bevat inspirerende praktijkcases van bekende merken