whereas attitudinal loyalty refers to a customer’s intention to repurchase and willingness to recommend. Attitudinal loyalty is more commonly used in many research studies (Loureiro and Kastenholz 2011) and relatively easy to measure.
Relationships among perceived service quality, corporate image, overall satisfaction, and loyalty
There is much previous research exploring the quality-satisfaction-loyalty (QSL) relationship. It is generally believed in marketing and service industries that (1) good service quality results in customer satisfaction, (2) good service quality attracts customers and hence lead to customer loyalty and (3) high satisfaction level is likely to create customer loyalty. However, it has also been reported that satisfaction may not be adequate enough to lead to loyalty, though loyal customers are almost typically satisfied (Cronin and Taylor 1992; Cronin et al 2000, Petrick 2004).
Furthermore, service quality is also found to affect perceived value positively (Oh 1999, Cronin et al 2000). Oh (1999) emphasized that customers who experience high level of service quality in the hotel industry will tend to perceive greater value for money. Also, many researchers reported that perceived value is a determinant of customer satisfaction (Patterson and Spreng 1997, Petrick and Backman 2002, Meng et al 2011) and loyalty (Eggert and Ulaga 2002, Petrick 2004)
Based on the above literature review, this paper considers the structural model presented in Figure 1. The hypothesis proposed in the model are given below: