An Empirical Study on Customer-Orienation of Hotel and Service Image

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Customer-Orientation can be referred to as the concept of creating and maintaining a superior value within the market by responding to the 'wants of the customer' in regards to the Hotel. In other words, customer-orienated hotel is forcasting a customer' response to being different from other competitors, competing with others, and winning in the market. Therefore, hotels exert their efforts in various customer-oriented activities which may result in customer satisfaction. The pruposes of this study are to find out various significant factors impinging on customer-orientation and service image in hotels. For these purposes, two hypothesis were established, and the samples of this study were 15 hotels in Pusan, KyeongJu. The verification of the proposed hypothesis showed the following results: First, service quality and customer-orientation were found to be significantly related. In detail, the employees of hotel were shown to be affected in sales management, human relationship and service quality. Second, customer-orientation and service image were found to be significantly related. namely, the customer-orientation of hotel' employee were found to be significantly related with hotel service image. The research results and suggestions of this study are as follows: First, it is necessary that provide better service/product to satisfy the customers. Second, it is necessary that the employees of tourist hotel try to resolve the complaint of customers. Third, it is necessary that the employees of hotel try to improve the image as good service.