Examining the Relationship between Emotions, Customer Satisfaction and Future Behavioral Intentions in Agrotourism

Chatzigeorgiou, Chryssoula and Christou, Evangelos and Kassianidis, Panagiotis and Sigala, Marianna (2009): Examining the Relationship between Emotions, Customer Satisfaction and Future Behavioral Intentions in Agrotourism. Published in: TOURISMOS: An International Multidisciplinary Journal of Tourism , Vol. 4, No. 4 (15 December 2009): pp. 145-161.

Abstract

Marketers have been working tirelessly to determine the factors that lead to customer satisfaction presuming that customer satisfaction automatically leads to repeated customers. Service quality, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and repeat business are issues well recognized and investigated by researchers. Recent theory however suggests that service quality alone doesn’t necessarily encourage customers to repeat their choices, but rather, “complete” customer satisfaction does Thus, the main research question addressed in this paper is how to complete the relationship between “complete” customer satisfaction and repeat business. The customer’s emotions have been proved to be a key determinant to turn a satisfied customer into a repeated one. The research was conducted in 2009, addressed to customers of agrotourism businesses on Lesvos Island and Florina – Greece.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Customer satisfaction, tourism services, agrotourism, emotions, overall satisfaction, expectations, repeated customers
• Subjects: O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development; M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M1 - Business Administration; L - Industrial Organization > L8 - Industry Studies: Services > L83 - Sports ; Gambling ; Restaurants ; Recreation ; Tourism

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