- Guest Service / Customer Experience Mgmt
- Closing the Gap Between Guest Expectation and Management Perception
One of the characteristics of the service industry is tangibility. While the product is tangible, service is intangible. Unlike tangible products many services are not measured easily nor can be tested for quality. While it is easy to improve the quality of a product any time it is difficult to improve the quality of services because service is always of a temporary nature. As a hospitality manager the first rule of any good quality service is you should know your customer very well. Gaps model is a conceptual model developed to qualitatively measure service quality. One of the most important gaps is "Expectation of a guest and the perception of management". READ MORE