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Importance of Various Service Types in Hotels - Empirical Analysis Cover

Importance of Various Service Types in Hotels - Empirical Analysis

Open Access
|Dec 2016

Abstract

Hotels offer different types of services which have different impacts on the users’ satisfaction and have an influence in various extents on decision making, when it comes to the selection of hotels. As a part of research, empirical analysis based on the importance of different services which hotels provide, was conducted. The idea of research is to determine the importance of different types of services for users. The survey was conducted on a sample of 850 respondents in Serbia. The study used AHP methodology which is used in the decisionmaking process analysis and is suitable for studies defining the rank of relevance of individual elements. The obtained results presented in the study provide information such as, what services offered by hotels have the greatest importance for users. Based on the obtained results in empirical research, and by applying cluster analysis, two different segments of hotel guests are identified based on the preferred services. Segments are statistically different and can represent various targets in the hotel business policy.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ethemes-2016-0020 | Journal eISSN: 2217-3668 | Journal ISSN: 0353-8648
Language: English
Page range: 403 - 423
Submitted on: Dec 21, 2016
Accepted on: Oct 3, 2016
Published on: Dec 30, 2016
Published by: University of Niš, Faculty of Economics
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2016 Aleksandar Đorđević, Bojan Zečević, Branislava Hristov Stančić, published by University of Niš, Faculty of Economics
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