2.2. Customer satisfaction
Customer satisfaction became among the most important antecedent that the hotel management needs to achieve while delivering service s to customers. Customer satisfaction, leads to various effects and it was known to be an indicator of a company’s future income and profit (Forozia, Zadeh & Gilani, 2013). In other word, service provider of hotel industry should put a priority in fulfilling customer’s need as their main objectives. Furthermore, customer satisfaction has become the determinant and predictable aspects of success, therefore, hotels are not able to compete with their rivals without satisfying customers (Forozia et al. 2013). They further asserted that customer satisfaction analysis helps hotel operators to assess their weaknesses and flaws, ergo solving customer’s real needs and wants. In addition, Mohajerani and Miremadi (2012) postulated that customers’ satisfaction will occur when customers’ perception are met or exceeds customer’s expectation. Similarly, Torres and Kline (2014) stated that customer satisfaction is defined as the individual’s perception of a performance of products or s ervices that t ailored t o his or her expectation. This means that if a hotel is able to fulfilling customer needs, in return they will be satisfied vice versa. Customer satisfaction can be seen as a customer’s perspectives in which his or her needs, wants, and expectations throughout the product or service life cycle have been met or surpassed, bringing about ensuring repurchase and delay unwaveringness (Usta, Berezina & Cobanoglu, 2014). Customer satisfaction is a business beliefs which leads to the creation of value for customers, anticipating and managing their expectations , de mons t rat ing abilit y, and res pons ibilit y t o s at is fy t heir needs (Do minic i & Gu zzo, 2010) . If t he hot el industry can easily understand and satisfy customer needs, they will conceivably make greater profits than those who fail to satisfy them. Dominici and Guzzo (2010) also stated that as the cost of attracting new customers is h igher than the cost of retainin g the existing ones, therefore, managers must focus on retaining the existing customers by improving policies and procedure in managing customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. Customer satisfaction is the most important criteria in determining the quality of service delivered to customers through the products or services and other supplementary s ervices (Wai & Low, 2005) .
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