Active and Reactive Value Dimensions: A Dynamic-Based Perspective in the Hotel Sector
Despite the wide acknowledgment of consumer value as a dynamic concept in marketing and tourism literature, few studies have addressed its dynamicity. This article provides an approach to the dynamic nature of value in a hotel experience by proposing a conceptual framework that seeks to explain the influence of value types on customer satisfaction and loyalty as being concatenated rather than simultaneous effects, as more usually described. The concatenation of effects is based on the distinction between active versus reactive values and is tested in a structural model consisting of eight types of value (Efficiency, Service Quality, Status, Esteem, Entertainment, Aesthetics, Ethics, and Es…
Exploring the concept of perceived sustainability at tourist destinations: a market segmentation approach
The concept of sustainability as perceived by tourists has rarely been studied and much less considered as a basis for segmentation. This article provides a conceptual framework based on tourists’ ...
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN DESTINATIONS: A LATENT CLASS SEGMENTATION ANALYSIS
This article addresses a cross-destination research to study a key issue for the growth and competitiveness of the tourism sector, which is the perceived environmental sustainability of a destination. Particularly, a segmentation analysis is developed to examine potential unobserved heterogeneity across tourists regarding their perception of environmental sustainability of the destination. 918 tourists of five Mediterranean Sea Basin cities are studied using a latent class segmentation technique. Results show the existence of three differentiated latent clusters of tourists with low, medium and high perception of environmental sustainability respectively, confirming the validity of this var…
Online value creation in small service businesses: the importance of experience valence and personal values
Perceived value is of great interest in current marketing research. However, in the area of Internet as a shopping channel of small businesses, there has been little analysis of customer perceived value and its determinants. This paper examines two little analysed aspects of value creation, experience valence and personal values. The analysis of data from a survey of tourism service purchase shows that experience valence, in terms of relevant information, ease of use and customer service, clearly influences perceived value after the online shopping experience. In contrast, only personal values of sense of security and sense of accomplishment influence perceived value.
Un enfoque de marketing de relaciones a la educación como un servicio: aplicación a la Universidad de Valencia
Esta investigación se plantea como una aproximación exploratoria a la vez que innovadora, en la medida en que su objetivo básico es el de aplicar el paradigma del marketing de relaciones al análisis de la gestión educativa. Más concretamente, lo que se persigue es construir un modelo integrado de relaciones entre el egresado y la universidad. Se realizaron 500 encuestas a egresados de una universidad española y se utilizaron modelos de ecuaciones estructurales para contrastar las relaciones planteadas. La aportación fundamental del trabajo radica en la conceptuación y medición de variables relativas al comportamiento y percepción de los egresados. Los resultados más relevantes confirman tre…