1. Learning Objectives Chapter 11: People: Services and Service Quality
Identify the two main groups of people involved in hospitality and travel marketing and how they interact.
Explain the key role played by people in the marketing mix.
3. Describe the total quality management (TQM) concept, including its key principles.
Identify the benefits of customer codes and guarantees.
Explain the importance of employee selection, orientation, training, and motivation programs in delivering service quality.

2. Learning Objectives Chapter 11: People: Services and Service Quality
Describe the concept of empowering employees and how important this is to customer satisfaction.
Explain the five dimensions of the SERVQUAL model and how this technique is used to measure service quality.
Explain why the relationship marketing concept is so important in the hospitality and travel industry and how it is done successfully.
Describe the customer mix and explain why organizations must manage it.

3. Role Played by People in the Marketing Mix
Personal service is the key component of the marketing mix in hospitality and travel.
People alone can make or break a guest’s experience.
No amount of good facilities can make up for poor service.

4. Two Main Groups of People Involved in Hospitality and Tourism
GUESTS
(Customers)
HOSTS
(Employees) +

5. Total Quality Management (TQM)
A process designed to cut down on an organization’s “defects,” to determine its customer requirements, and to satisfy these requirements.
TQM’s key principles are:
Commitment to quality
Focus on customer satisfaction
Assessment of organizational culture
Empowerment of employees and teams
Measurement of quality efforts
TQM

6. Benefits of Customer Codes and Guarantees
Communicate to guests what to expect in the service delivery.
Give the organization’s employees a clear idea of what is expected of them in serving guests.
May also articulate what the organization will do for the guest if the service delivery is not satisfactory.

7. Employee Selection, Orientation, Training, and Motivation
Managing “internal customers”
Staff selection
Orientation
Training
Motivating and retaining
Empowering

8. Empowering Employees
Giving employees the authority to identify and solve guest problems or complaints “on the spot,” and to make improvements in work processes when necessary
Decentralizing decision-making or “flattening” the organization chart.
Having greater trust in subordinates and their judgments

9. SERVQUAL Model Dimensions
Tangibles (physical facilities, equipment, staff appearance).
Reliability (ability to perform the service dependably and accurately).
Responsiveness (willingness to help customers and to respond promptly).
Assurance (knowledge/courtesy of staff and ability to portray trust and confidence).
Empathy (degree of caring, individualized service).

10. Relationship Marketing
Building, maintaining, and enhancing long-term relationships with individual customers
Managing service encounters.
Providing customer incentives.
Providing special service options.
Developing pricing strategies to encourage long-term use.
Maintaining a customer database.
Communicating with customers through direct or specialized media.

11. They must mix well and not conflict with one another
Customer Mix
The customer mix is the combination of customers that use or are attracted to a specific hospitality and travel organization
They must mix well and not conflict with one another