Loyalty programs not only play an instrumental role to help build customer commitment but they also demonstrate a firm’s commitment because such programs are often costly for firms to create and manage (Liu, 2007). Loyalty programs work to more expeditiously build and preserve stronger customer relationships with the sponsoring firm than would result without these programs. Hence, this study’s framework recognizes that relationship commitment is vital to the creation and preservation of marketing relationships (Morgan and Hunt, 1994). In the context of this study, relationship commitment reflects an enduring attitude or desire for a particular firm or brand. Committed customers are motivated to maintain the relationship because of attachment feelings and sincerity in their personal attitudes (Moorman et al., 1992). As a psychological construct, relationship commitment may be discernible by customer advocacy behaviors yet alone, such manifestations do not ensure its presence. Commitment arises only after a relationship is firmly established, and thus serves as a necessary condition for consistent customer advocacy behaviors