Service
Characteristics of Hospitality and Tourism
Marketing
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Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th edition
Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
“Managers do not control the quality of the product when the product is a service . . . .
The quality of the service is in a precarious state – it is in the hands of the service workers who
‘produce’ and deliver it.”
-Karl Albrecht
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Chapter Objectives
• Describe a service culture
• Identify four service characteristics that affect the marketing of a hospitality or travel product. • Explain marketing strategies that are useful in the hospitality and travel industries
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The Service Culture
• The service culture focuses on serving and satisfying the customer
• Empowers employees to solve customer problems
• Majority of many countries’ GDP is service based
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Characteristics of Service
Marketing
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Management Strategies for
Service Businesses
• Service companies must increase their competitive differentiation, service quality, and productivity
– Increase in competition and costs
– Decrease in productivity and quality
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Service-Profit Chain
Five Links:
• Healthy service profits and growth
•
Satisfied and loyal customers
•
Greater service values
•
Satisfied and productive service employees
•
Internal service quality
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Three Types of Marketing in
Service Industries
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Internal and Interactive
Marketing
•
Internal marketing means the service firm must effectively train and motivate customer contact employees
•
Interactive marketing means the perceived service quality depends heavily upon the buyer-seller interaction during the service encounter ©2006 Pearson Education, Inc.
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Managing Differentiation
• Solution to price competition
• Differentiation through people, physical environment, and processes
• Differentiation through branding
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Managing Service Quality
• Exceed customers’ service-quality expectations • Expectations based on past experiences, word-of-mouth, and service firm advertising
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