tourism, combined with the phrase medical, seems to be a new form of tourism which has gained huge popularity in recent decades. though, a number of literatures available with regard to the tourism industry and the competitiveness of the destination, however, the major aspects which determine the satisfaction of medical tourists are hardly focused specifically on malaysia. there is a lack of em...

the purpose of this article is to present a model for customer satisfaction in the development banking sector. in the design of the customer satisfaction model, an attempt has been made to consider the characteristics of the development banks. thus, three dimensions of quality of service, characteristics of the service, and access to service have been considered as the main dimensions of the mo...

Service quality is a factor for measuring customer satisfaction in hotel industry. Therefore, in order to achieve competitive advantage and maintain customers, improving service quality has become an important tool in hotel industry to achieve customer satisfaction which is lead to customer loyalty. Because companies are developing close relationships with suppliers and customers. Since then th...

This work aims at establishing the best practices and processes to define the life cycle of an SLA. For such purpose, the network management practices defined in the TMForum scope (according to the view offered by TOM [01] and eTOM [02]) are used as reference. Such best practices are distributed along the network management layer, in order to define the Network Performance indicators and their ...

As the Internet paved the way for electronic businesses, ubiquitous services (u-services) will be the next wave launched by electronic services based on current customer information potential. However, privacy is a strategic issue and has been identified as a key hindrance to u-services. As a proactive approach and drawing upon integrative social contracts theory, this study presents a proactiv...

Service climate is critical for organizations pertaining to the service sector. It reflects the importance organizations attribute to service quality and efforts to please customers. Using previous work of Schneider, White, and Paul (1998) as starting point, this research validates a measure of service climate in the Spanish language. Data from two survey study projects were brought together. A...

This study identified the Customer Service Management (CSM) practices of Tagum Water District (TWD) from perspective its customers and customer service personnel as to how TWD responded addressed inquiries, requests, complaints. The Evolution by Blake Morgan serves foundation for study's theoretical framework. Focus groups in-depth interviews were used get data. findings showed that although bo...

in today's competitive environment, branding is considered as a mechanism to help businesses in order to achieve competitive advantages. due to perceived service quality, business image and customer trust, branding, as an important concept in the sports marketing, is created for organizations. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived service quality and c...

today, electronic banking has essential role in banking industry. challenges facing banking industry led to banks make to use electronic banking and delivery services and products throughout electronic banking. moreover, they are trying to understand their customers' needs and everyday increase service quality throughout electronic banking. this research tries to investigate effect of cust...