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Figure 26: Facilities for family
Like other sectors, most of the service for the family is preferred by Asian more than European,
especially to the need of microwave with 34% gap. To other services including free kid meal up
to age 12, baby- sitting service, refrigerator and iron, the gap is around 20%.
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Figure 27: Facilities for family in Europe and Asia
6.7 Customer expectation of specific gender
47% of female and 19% of male when being asked, they prefer have a package for their specific
gender.
According to around 50% of women in Europe and Asia, a package for women should include
the shopping package, one “passport” to beauty salon/spa, king-size bed and make-up kit.
Almost idea about the package is not very different between Asian and Europe, except “the room
for only girls” factor. To 56% Asian, they want this idea but with female European, it is not
important and only 9% of them like it.
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Figure 28: A package for women
Men have different idea about what should include in their package. 73% and 55% of European
men like king-size bed and one “passport” for goal/ dinning/ discotheque correlatively while
only 44% of Asian men like them. Room only for men and wine/ champagne are preferred by
Asian male guests 20% more than European ones. Oppositely, 37% European men want a
“passport for spa” while only 7% Asian men are eager with this idea.
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Figure 29: A package for men
6.8 Customer satisfaction in service failure
Both men and women face with some problems on hotel services. The most popular one is
cleaning service which accounts for 65% to European and 58% to Asian. There are big
differences about number of problems related to emotional expression of hotel staff, room
facilities and responsiveness of hotel staff of Asian and European. 55%, 58% and 43% of Asian
correlatively face with emotional expression of hotel staff, room facilities and responsiveness of
hotel staff while those numbers are only 20%, 34% and 27% to the European. Around 10% of
both continents have no problem with any hotel services. According to the survey, the disable
people also face to the accessibility issues because only minority hotels in the world pay
attention on it.
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Figure 30: Popular service problems in Europe and Asia
When problem happened, most of customers receive the effort of hotel staffs and responsibility
of managers. However, it is different between European and Asian. To European, 57% of them
perceive the efforts of the hotel staffs in solving the problem while 80% of Asian perceives that.
And the Asian managers also seem to be more available to solve problem than European ones.
Around 16% of hotels staffs ignore the problems and 10% of guests are impossible to connect to
hotel staffs to solve problems. It means around 26% of people having the problem with hotel
which cannot be solved. 26% is a high percentage and it is not good to a service. Hoteliers
should improve their staffs’ skill in solving guests’ problems.
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Figure 31: Perception of guests about solving problem
Refer to time for responses, 33% of European said that their problem was solved immediately,
while this ratio is even higher to Asian guests, with 44%. 50% of European and 34% of Asian
received the responses within 24hours and only 4% of European was responded more than 24
hours. However, in the bad cases, 13% of guests had to contact to the hotel again to talk about
their problem and 6% of guests was not responded to their issues. If within 24 hour response
time is acceptable, the European service provider seems to respond customers faster than Asian
ones do.
Figure 32: Time for responses
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With the experiences in the hotels, more details about the services, speed of response to
problems and availability of the staff are most expected by customers. Female guests seem to be
more satisfied with the service quality than male ones because in most of the expectation on the
improvement of the service, percentage of the male guests is higher than the female. It shows
most clearly in expatiation on the increase of response speed and detailed information about the
service where male customers account for 55% and 58% while the rates of female customers are
43% and 41% correlatively. In addition, the disable people suggested that the accessibility
should be improved to be more continent for them in the use of hotel services.
Figure 33: Customer expectations
In Europe and Asia, more than 50% customers suggest that hotel service providers should
improve the speed of response to problems and provide more details about the services. 59% of
Asian expects the availability of hotel staffs increase, while 33% of European wants it. Except
“attention of staff when making the relation with guest” and “speed of response to problems of
hotel services” suggestions, the Asian expect more the improvement of service quality than
European. In other words, it seems that European is more satisfied with the service quality in the
hotel industry than Asian.
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