This present study aims to compare how service brand preference influence service perceived value, customer satisfaction and loyalty in different countries—Japan and China. Moreover, this study purposes to explore whether countries’ image affect service brand preference of customer. Two customer surveys which were practiced in Japan and China were conducted to examine moderation hypotheses, whi...

Service quality is a factor for measuring customer satisfaction in hotel industry. Therefore, in order to achieve competitive advantage and maintain customers, improving service quality has become an important tool in hotel industry to achieve customer satisfaction which is lead to customer loyalty. Because companies are developing close relationships with suppliers and customers. Since then th...

Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) employs a model for measuring and quantifying the satisfaction of customers who have used particular products and services. CSI provides a uniform measure of customer satisfaction that allows for comparison across industries and it illustrates how customer satisfaction is embedded in a system of cause–effect relationships. Despite discussions of nonlinear relat...

a key challenge to brand managers is how to gain a better understanding of the relationship between brand and customer loyalty constructs. researchers have recognized that brand identity plays a key role in brand management. the purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of brand identity and brand identification on brand loyalty through perceived value, customer satisfaction, and trust...

The relationship of employee job satisfaction with customer service quality evaluation and customer loyalty is studied. A study of the UK financial services industry finds that, contrary to previous research, employee job satisfaction does not affect customers’ perceptions of service quality; but there is a relationship between job satisfaction and one measure of customer loyalty repurchase int...

This study examines the usefulness of the theory of transaction cost economics (TCE) for the online travel market and investigates customer satisfaction and loyalty with the transaction cost over the Internet taken into account. Using structural equation modelling (SEM), the authors identify the relationships among the antecedents (uncertainty, personal security and buying frequency), the media...

This study aims to investigate the mediating effects of consumer satisfaction on the relationship between consumer-based brand equity and brand loyalty in the hotel and restaurant industry. Based on a sample of 378 customers and using structural equation modelling approach, the five dimensions of brand equity—physical quality, staff behaviour, ideal selfcongruence, brand identification and life...

Customer loyalty is always an important index for service providers to consider in service systems. It represents the probability of repurchasing. The paper focuses on the study of loyalty in the networked environment. We propose one mathematical model to describe satisfaction and analyze how satisfaction and switching cost influence loyalty by using the catastrophe model. Comparing with previo...

this study examined the effect of service quality and satisfaction on customer loyalty in sport clubs of tehran city. the study was descriptive-correlation which was conducted as a field study. the statistical population consisted of customers who attended bodybuilding, fitness and aerobics sport clubs for at least 6 months in tehran. 5 districts (out of 22) of tehran city were selected by clus...

BACKGROUND The emergence of advanced IT and cloud services has beneficially supported the information-intensive tourism industry, simultaneously caused extreme competitions in attracting customers through building efficient service platforms. On response, numerous nations have implemented cloud platforms to provide value-added sightseeing information and personal intelligent service experiences...