Pre-adoption customer satisfaction with tourism websites : conjoint analysis of electronic customer relationship management features
Christer Kuttainen ; Elena Iliachenko ; Esmail Salehi-Sangari
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Tourism enterprises can on their websites implement Electronic Customer Relationship Management (e-CRM) features that can promote customer satisfaction and assist in building profitable customer relationships. The present paper incorporates the method of Conjoint Analysis for addressing the effects of e-CRM features on the pre-adoption customer satisfaction of online trip buyers with a tourism website. The study evaluates the profiles of e-CRM features presented as ten hypothetical tourism websites. The results highlight that reservation and product customisation features have the most positive effect on pre-adoption customer satisfaction. Reservation shows also a tendency to boost other low-ranked features in e-CRM profiles. The study supports claims that it is important for potential tourists to be able to reserve and pay for a trip directly on a website. The paper makes a theoretical and methodological contribution to the study of customer satisfaction in an online context. It also provides tourism practitioners with general guidelines on how to design a competitive website.
- Titel:
- The AM2005 Academy of Marketing Conference
- Utgivningsår:
- 2005
- Sidor:
- 273-
- Konferensens titel:
- The AM2005 Academy of Marketing Conference
- Plats:
- Dublin, Irland
- Datum:
- 05.07.2005 - 07.07.2005
- Språk:
- Engelska
- Bibliografisk anteckning:
- CD-ROM
- Systemnummer:
- 649213