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Wellness Tourism among Seniors in Taiwan: Previous Experience, Service Encounter Expectations, Organizational Characteristics, Employee Characteristics, and Customer Satisfaction

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  • Kaung-Hwa Chen

    (Department of Tourism Management, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan)

  • Feng-Hsiang Chang

    (Department of Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Management, Tzu Hui Institute of Technology, Pingtung 926, Taiwan)

  • Fang-Yu Liu

    (Department of Tourism Management, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan)

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the influence of the service encounter expectations of senior customers during wellness tours on customer satisfaction. The organizational attributes of hotels, organizational characteristics and employee characteristics, were adopted as mediating variables. A total of 346 valid questionnaires were retrieved from 50 year-old and above seniors in Taiwan. The results showed that the service encounter expectations of seniors had an indirect influence on customer satisfaction and the organizational attributes mediated the service encounter expectations of seniors and customer satisfaction. The moment of truth in the interactions between service staff members and seniors represents the pivotal management implication of this study.

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  • Kaung-Hwa Chen & Feng-Hsiang Chang & Fang-Yu Liu, 2015. "Wellness Tourism among Seniors in Taiwan: Previous Experience, Service Encounter Expectations, Organizational Characteristics, Employee Characteristics, and Customer Satisfaction," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(8), pages 1-26, August.
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