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The impact service quality on customer loyalty and implementation in a 5 stars hotel business

2009
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Advisor: Doç. Dr. Kahraman Çatı

Abstract (EN)

Many service businesses gradually show interest in the subject of quality and try hard to improve the service quality. That?s why, the basic goal of service businesses is to provide quality. In general terms, service quality, which is defined as giving the customer service which responds to his/her request and expectation in a best way, has a lot of crucial advantages. The most important of all is the customer loyalty which is expressed as buying goods and services again and again and recomemending them to people around. Businesses along with customer loyalty have an important rivalry advantage by providing the reduction of cost and the increase in profit. Especially, this situation gains more importance in hotel businesses which present people with goods and service that are alike. The aim of this research is basically to explain the relation between service quality and customer loyalty theoretically and the determine the impact of service quality on customer loyalty. For this aim, an opinion poll was carried out to 176 customers who accomodate in an five star hotel in Alanya. The data that were attained were analyzed by the SPSS 10.00 package programme. Mean, frequency analysis, factor analysis, t test, anova analysis, regression and correlation anlaysis were benefitted from to evaluate the results of the application. In conclusion, it is determined that there is a relation between service quality and behavioral and attitudinal loyalty which mean customer loyalty. Moreover, it is found that the extent of ``Assurance?? of service quality has the biggest influence on customer loyalty. It is also determined that there is a positive and strong relation between behavioral and attitudinal loyalty.Keywords: Service, Service Quality, Customer Loyalty, Hotel Businesses.

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Cenk Murat Koçoğlu

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Cenk Murat Koçoğlu (Master Thesis). The impact service quality on customer loyalty and implementation in a 5 stars hotel business, 2009, Düzce University.

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