Johnston and Morris (1985) argue that service organisations tend to measure only what is easy to measure and quantify, and shy away from the use of soft, qualitative measures. Kaplan (1983) argues satisfaction. Whilst the measurement of customer service perceptions are now widespread in tourism/hospitality, an understanding of managements’ perception of guest expectations, as well as staff responses to such management expectations, are yet to be explored. Hochschild (1983) has described the work performed by service providers as ‘emotional labor’ that requires them to subsume their own feelings to the goals of their employer and the immediate needs of a paying customer.