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©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
Chapter 2
Service Characteristics of Hospitality and Tourism Marketing
Dr. John V. Padua
©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
Chapter Objectives
• Describe a service culture
• Identify four service characteristics that affect the marketing of a hospitality or travel product.
• Explain marketing strategies that are useful in the hospitality and travel industries
©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
“Managers do not control the quality of the product when the product is a service . . . .
The quality of the service is in a precarious state – it is in the hands of the service workers who
‘produce’ and deliver it.”
-Karl Albrecht
©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
The Service Culture
• The service culture focuses on serving and satisfying the customer
• Empowers employees to solve customer problems
• Majority of many countries’ GDP is service based
©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
Characteristics of Service Marketing
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©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
Management Strategies for Service Businesses
• Service companies must increase their competitive differentiation, service quality, and productivity
– Increase in competition and costs
– Decrease in productivity and quality
©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
Three Types of Marketing in Service Industries
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©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
Internal and Interactive Marketing
• Internal marketing means the service firm must effectively train and motivate customer contact employees
• Interactive marketing means the perceived service quality depends heavily upon the buyer-seller interaction during the service encounter
©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
Managing Differentiation
• Solution to price competition
• Differentiation through people, physical environment, and processes
• Differentiation through branding
©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
Managing Service Quality
• Exceed customers’ service-quality expectations
• Expectations based on past experiences, word-of-mouth, and service firm advertising
©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
Common Virtues Regarding Service Quality
1. “Customer obsessed”
2. History of top management commitment to quality
3. High service quality standards set
4. Monitor performance closely
©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
Managing the Physical Surroundings
• Improperly managed physical evidence can hurt a business
• Surroundings should reinforce company positioning in customer’s mind
• Organizational Image is how customers perceive your organization
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©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
Managing Employees as Part of the Product
• Employees are critical
• Training and motivating employees to provide good customer service is internal marketing
• A point-of-encounter is any point at which the employee encounters the customer
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©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
Managing Perceived Risk
• Alleviate customer anxiety due to inability to experience the product beforehand
• Familiarization trips encourage clients to experience the enterprise in a low-risk situation
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©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
Managing Capacity and Demand
• Due to perishability, managers must maximize service capacity and quality during times of high and low demand
• Customer complaints increase when service firms operate above 80% capacity
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©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
Managing Consistency
• No surprises!• Not only should services be provided
correctly, but they should be done the same way every time
• Beware fluctuating demand and unintentional company policies that may affect consistency
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©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
Managing the Customer Relationship – CRM
• Combines marketing, business strategy and information technology to better understand the customers
• Develop unique, lasting relationships with customers
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©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
Service Failure
• Problems will inevitably occur
• Keep the customer informed
• Provide service recovery options
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©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
Contact Personnel
• Contact personnel have a direct impact on the satisfaction of customers
• Characteristic of inseparability of customer and employee during service delivery system
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©2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 4th editionUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Kotler, Bowen, and Makens
The Invisible Organizationand System
A service organization management must decide what they want the guest to see and what they want to keep out of the
guest’s vision
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