TY - GEN
T1 - Service Quality Assessment via Enhanced Data-Driven MCDM Model
AU - Vahdat, Vahab
AU - Salehi, Seyedmohammad
AU - Ahmadi, Nima
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Tourism and hospitality industry has brought large economical revenue for both developing and developed countries. However, with the increase in tourists’ diversity, needs, and expectations, the need for hotels with higher quality of services has emerged. This research evaluates and compares the quality of service in two different types of hotels that exist in the historic cities: first, hotels that are located in the historic sites of the city offering mostly the city architecture, culture, life style, and local cuisines second, modern hotels that are outside the buffer zone of the historic site, equipped with modern technology and offer more standardized services and international cuisines. In this research, a stylized multi-phase framework is used to assess the quality of service from a modified-SERVQUAL model. Two sets of surveys are distributed among the hotel administrators and travelers. Using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), fuzzy set theory, and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to the Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), the relative importance of each SERVQUAL dimension in the hotel industry is investigated and the hotel types are ranked accordingly. Our results indicate that hotels that are located in historic sites are more favorable for the tourists.
AB - Tourism and hospitality industry has brought large economical revenue for both developing and developed countries. However, with the increase in tourists’ diversity, needs, and expectations, the need for hotels with higher quality of services has emerged. This research evaluates and compares the quality of service in two different types of hotels that exist in the historic cities: first, hotels that are located in the historic sites of the city offering mostly the city architecture, culture, life style, and local cuisines second, modern hotels that are outside the buffer zone of the historic site, equipped with modern technology and offer more standardized services and international cuisines. In this research, a stylized multi-phase framework is used to assess the quality of service from a modified-SERVQUAL model. Two sets of surveys are distributed among the hotel administrators and travelers. Using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), fuzzy set theory, and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to the Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), the relative importance of each SERVQUAL dimension in the hotel industry is investigated and the hotel types are ranked accordingly. Our results indicate that hotels that are located in historic sites are more favorable for the tourists.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-04726-9_22
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-04726-9_22
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85126187982
SN - 9783030047252
T3 - Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics
SP - 217
EP - 230
BT - Advances in Service Science - Proceedings of the 2018 INFORMS International Conference on Service Science
A2 - Yang, Hui
A2 - Qiu, Robin
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
T2 - INFORMS International Conference on Service Science, ICSS 2018
Y2 - 3 November 2018 through 3 November 2018
ER -