The effect of quality of service offered by golf clubs on the customer satisfaction: The case of Belek destination

Because of the customer need of the businesses to be able to continue their existence, raises the importance of quality and customer satisfaction in service sector, too. In a service business, it is quite important to increase the quality and know how the services are evaluated by the customers. In addition to increasing the number of service businesses quantitatively, increasing the importance given to the services has revealed the necessity of quality serving. The main aim of this study is to research the quality perception of golf players' effect on the satisfaction of them towards the services offered by the Golf Clubs. The golf tourists coming Belek to play golf, one of the leading golf tourism centers of Turkey, constitute the population. The valid data acquired from 402 golf players have been subjected to analysis. In accordance with the data acquired, sub-dimensions of quality regarding the services offered by the Golf Clubs have been scrutinized and it has been seen that the physical assets of Golf Clubs influence the satisfaction of the golf players most. Besides that, it has been determined that the satisfaction of golf players become different according to the nationality, educational status and occupation of the golf players. Also, the golf players have been stated that they prefer the destination because of having possibility to be able to play golf in different golf courses in Belek destination, recommend Belek to other golf players and would like to come to the destination to play golf again.