Conclusions and discussion
The impact of information security on hotel guests’ perception of service quality,
overall satisfaction, revisit intentions and likelihood of recommending a hotel to others,
was studied by exposing the study participants to three different scenarios: negative,
when the guest’s credit card information was stolen during the security breach; neutral,
when the credit card information was not stolen during the security breach; and
positive when a hotel passed a comprehensive security audit confirming high
information security in the property. Hypotheses about satisfaction, revisit intentions
and word-of-mouth were fully supported revealing a significant impact of treatments
on customers’ perceptions of service quality and behavioral intentions.
As expected, treatment 1 (breach – credit card information stolen) led to a