Review of Literature
As the hospitality and tourism industry sector of the Thai economy grows, the research topic of hospitality and tourism industry is becoming increasingly necessary. Service quality standard from Thailand distributed regionally, nationally, and globally have become a signature of its own way. Many ASEAN nations also aimed at enhancing quality service standard of their tourism industry. This means the measurement of reliable methods of service standard is vital. As a result, accurate and reliable instruments that assess service quality are the topic of study by many researchers around the world. In fact, instrument is called SERVQUAL was designed to be used as the best quality measurement. Theory of service quality or SERVQUAL was developed by the famous Parasuraman, Zeithamal and Berry (1993). The theory’s foundation was based on the difference between the tourists’ expectation of service quality and the tourists’ real experience of service during their trip. Put it differently, it is a measurement of the gap of tourists’ expectation and tourists’ perception. This type of measurement aims to measure five dimensions which included assurance, empathy, reliability, responsiveness, and tangibility. Each dimension is required to ask international tourist about their level of satisfaction, their comments, and opinions about the service received by the service providers when compare with their expectation that the particular service should be performed.
Review of Literature As the hospitality and tourism industry sector of the Thai economy grows, the research topic of hospitality and tourism industry is becoming increasingly necessary. Service quality standard from Thailand distributed regionally, nationally, and globally have become a signature of its own way. Many ASEAN nations also aimed at enhancing quality service standard of their tourism industry. This means the measurement of reliable methods of service standard is vital. As a result, accurate and reliable instruments that assess service quality are the topic of study by many researchers around the world. In fact, instrument is called SERVQUAL was designed to be used as the best quality measurement. Theory of service quality or SERVQUAL was developed by the famous Parasuraman, Zeithamal and Berry (1993). The theory’s foundation was based on the difference between the tourists’ expectation of service quality and the tourists’ real experience of service during their trip. Put it differently, it is a measurement of the gap of tourists’ expectation and tourists’ perception. This type of measurement aims to measure five dimensions which included assurance, empathy, reliability, responsiveness, and tangibility. Each dimension is required to ask international tourist about their level of satisfaction, their comments, and opinions about the service received by the service providers when compare with their expectation that the particular service should be performed.
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