Wellness and spa tourism has recently become a marketing strategy to attract tourists. It plays an important role in hotel industry, resorts and tourist destinations. Wellness and spa services are being required by local and international tourists. The interrelationship among motivations, satisfaction, and revisit intentions remain largely unexplored. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to ...

Customer satisfaction represents a modern approach for quality in enterprises and organisations and serves the development of a truly customer-focused management and culture. Measuring customer satisfaction offers an immediate, meaningful and objective feedback about clients’ preferences and expectations. In this way, company’s performance may be evaluated in relation to a set of satisfaction d...

Experiences with the management of Grid specific monitoring and accounting data have shown that current approaches do not sufficiently support a distinction between providers, users and customers of a Grid. This gap can be filled by the use of Customer Service Management techniques which enable customers to individually monitor and control their subscribed services. We adapt a Customer Service ...

Nowadays, many companies collect Voice of the Customer (VOC) in order to understand more about customers and the way they think about the companies or products/services. Many collection methods are being used to capture those valuable resources. This paper introduces “VOC 3.0”, a new Voice of the Customer (VOC) collection method through customer co-creation. This new method is aiming to create ...

Developing and maintaining marketing relationships have been widely examined in the literature. The impact of relationships on firm performance extends the understanding of previously defined key relationship marketing elements. Such an understanding spans the gap between relationship marketing theory and practice. We hypothesis that the relationship marketing attributes of communication, power...

In light of the growing relevance of customeroriented business strategies IT investments in the field of Customer Relationship Management have increased considerably. However, firms often could not realize sufficient returns on these IT investments. One major reason for this failure seems to be the lack of appropriate approaches to determine the economic impact of such investments ex ante. Ther...

The structure of the current study is based on to the prior studies on supply chain management practices and perceived organizational performance. The objective of the current study is to create a conceptual framework to investigating the link between supply chain management practices and healthcare’s perceived organizational performance that indicates the mediating impact of alliance integrate...

Prepaid customers in mobile telecommunications are not bound by a contract and can therefore change operators (‘churn’) at their convenience and without notification. This makes the task of predicting churn both challenging and financially rewarding. This paper presents an explorative, real world study of prepaid churn modeling by varying on three dimensions: data, outcome definition and popula...