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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/WiCom.2008.2032