ABSTRACT
This study developed and tested a model to predict customer satisfaction (SAT) with chain
budget hotel in Bangkok,thailand. Our research is to find which factors that influence
customers „satisfaction and how it influences. Besides,we would like to test new independent
variable “eco-tangible” ; physical facilities that were environmentally appropriate and
equipment that minimizes environmental degradation ,to customer satisfaction in chain
budget hotel business section that is significant to SAT or not and how it influences. Data was
collected from both customers who were staying at the time we collected and customers
were recently experienced within 6 months. We did 200 online/offline questionnaires from 10
chain budget hotels in central business district in Bangkok only. We initially hypothesized 5
independent variables; hotel image, eco-tangible, physical quality, staff service quality and
value for money had positive and direct effect on SAT. We used multiple regression to test
the proposed SAT model. The result revealedd differently a bit. Two new constructs were
found ; room quality and facility ,which were originally physical quality construct variable.
Thus, final SAT model consists of 6 independent variables and all constructs have positive
relationship and direct effect to customer satisfaction. The final model has a good
explanatory power with R2 = 72.3%. As room quality construct has highest correlation
coefficient at 0.819 while value for money has correlation coefficient at 0.092,meaning that
customers pay attention in room quality such as room cleanness even it is budget hotel.