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Title: Hotel guests' responses to service recovery: how loyalty influences guest behavior
Authors: Zoghbi-Manrique-de-Lara, Pablo 
Suarez-Acosta, Miguel A.
Aguiar-Quintana, Teresa
UNESCO Clasification: Investigación
Keywords: Service recovery
Customer dysfunctional behavior
Customer citizenship behavior
Guest behavior
Loyalty, et al
Issue Date: 2014
Publisher: 1938-9655
Journal: Cornell Hospitality Quarterly 
Abstract: Contrary to conventional wisdom, loyalty may be a driver of hotel guests’ favorable behavior when they are satisfied with a hotel’s service recovery effort. Instead of having satisfaction with service recovery directly influencing guests’ supportive actions, loyalty acts as a precondition to consumers’ positive citizenship behavior. Moreover, the factors that drive such favorable behavior may be independent of those that cause guests to offer favorable word of mouth after a hotel stay. Based on a study of 288 guests in seven high-end hotels in Spain’s Canary Islands, satisfaction with service recovery has a direct effect on loyalty, which in turn has a strong effect on customer citizenship behaviors. However, loyalty plays its mediating role only on the effects of satisfaction with service recovery on favorable citizenship behavior. That is, the fact that a guest is loyal helps to explain why a guest decides to help the hotel after satisfactory service recovery. On the other hand, loyalty does not enter into the equation when a guest is not happy with the service recovery and elects to behave dysfunctionally, including trashing the room.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/43627
ISSN: 1938-9655
DOI: 10.1177/1938965513513348
Source: Cornell Hospitality Quarterly [ISSN 1938-9655], v. 55 (2), p. 152-164
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