Customer and Employee Satisfaction in Hotels

Year 2022, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 69 - 83, 31.12.2022

Asier Baquero

https://doi.org/10.51525/johti.1172181

Cited By: 4

Abstract

Various academic studies have been conducted on customer and employee satisfaction in the service industries. This research focuses on the hotel sector, exploring 1) job satisfaction (intrinsic, extrinsic, and general) in departments whose employees most frequently come into contact with hotel customers (reception, housekeeping, bar and restaurant, kitchen, and entertainment); and 2) customer satisfaction for these departments. The aim of this research is to examine customer and job satisfaction in the aforementioned departments in greater depth. The research was carried out at the beginning of the 2021 summer season, during the COVID-19 pandemic. A sample of 1,488 individuals was analyzed to find out if employee job satisfaction can predict customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction was minimally explained by the three dimensions of employee satisfaction (intrinsic, extrinsic, and general), although not in all departments. Extrinsic employee satisfaction achieved higher results than intrinsic employee satisfaction in the reception, kitchen, and bar and restaurant departments. The results show a clear difference between departments that are managed directly by the hotel and those that are outsourced (housekeeping and entertainment), which did not show a predictive relationship between employee and customer satisfaction.

Keywords

customer satisfaction, job satisfaction, outsourcing, tourism, hotels, COVID-19

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