• DocumentCode
    3462452
  • Title

    Measuring Customer Satisfaction Based on Gap Model and Structured Equation Model in Agro Tourism Industry in Shandong, China

  • Author

    Jian Zhang ; Yan Shi ; Weisong Mu ; Xiaodan Wang ; Xiaoshuan Zhang

  • Author_Institution
    Beijing Inf. Sci. & Technol. Univ., Beijing
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    12-14 Oct. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Rural tourism enterprises have been developed in rural areas as an alternative to agriculture. This study Utilizes service quality Gap model and SEM (Structure Equation Model) to reveal the gaps and path of satisfaction between expected and experienced service dimensions the path. An exploratory empirical study of 158 guests is investigated. It shows that the research can understand tourists´ satisfaction in agro tourism industry and the factors that influence their choices in the surveyed areas: Shandong Province, China.
  • Keywords
    customer satisfaction; customer services; travel industry; China; Shandong; agro tourism industry; customer satisfaction; gap model; rural tourism enterprises; structured equation model; Accreditation; Agriculture; Area measurement; Biological system modeling; Customer satisfaction; Equations; Information science; Numerical analysis; Quality assurance; Sampling methods;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Dalian
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2107-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2108-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WiCom.2008.2032
  • Filename
    4680221