The User Gap (Perceptions-Expectations) in Tourism Accommodation Services in Mérida State, Venezuela

The present research focuses on service quality in tourism accommodation, measured using a combination of the Servqual model, which measures quality from the user's/turist¿s perspective, and the 5-gaps model, in an attempt to account for the discrepancy between client expectations and perceptio...

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Autores principales: Flora María Díaz-Pérez, Marysela Coromoto Morillo-Moreno, María Yolanda Bethencourt-Cejas
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Publicado: Centro de Investigaciones Comerciales e Iniciativas Académicas 2011
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Acceso en línea:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=63122680002
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=pr/pr-004&d=63122680002oai
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Sumario:The present research focuses on service quality in tourism accommodation, measured using a combination of the Servqual model, which measures quality from the user's/turist¿s perspective, and the 5-gaps model, in an attempt to account for the discrepancy between client expectations and perceptions. The measurement allows us to infer a service quality shortfall given that expectations exceed perceptions. A quality shortfall was noted in both seasons. Moreover, differences in average Servqual scores were found to exist only among the user groups defined by their level of education and earnings.