Emphasizing both strategic and practical aspects of customer care, this work explains how gaining customer commitment and motivating employees to deliver an excellent service at all of a company's touch points can ensure successful results and satisfied customers.

Readers will find helpful approaches for developing and maintaining solid internal and external customer relationships. Offers dozens of reliable techniques for handling customer complaints, probing for customer needs, and satisfying customer expectations.

To succeed, businesses must keep up with the ever-changing technological landscape and constantly introduce new advancements. The rise of digitalization has wholly transformed how companies interact with their customers, presenting both opportunities and challenges. Marketing professionals are inundated with data and need guidance on leveraging it effectively to craft successful marketing strategies. Additionally, the ethical and privacy concerns surrounding the collection and use of customer data make the marketing landscape even more complex. Improving Service Quality and Customer Engagement With Marketing Intelligence is a groundbreaking book that offers a comprehensive solution to these challenges. This book is a must-read for marketing professionals, business owners, and students, providing a practical guide to navigating the digital age. It explores the impact of digitalization on marketing practices. It offers insights into customer behavior, equipping readers with the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in today's competitive market. The book's interdisciplinary approach integrates insights from marketing, technology, data science, and ethics, giving readers a holistic understanding of marketing intelligence.

'Empowerment: HR strategies for service excellence' shows managers and students the importance of empowerment as part of human resource strategy. It provides a critical perspective of this established vital management technique, identifying factors that will lead to a win: win situation for all concerned. When successfully incorporated as part of HR strategy, empowerment can: * enable organizations to gain commercial and competitive advantage * become more flexible * improve employee commitment * use the skills of individual employees to best advantage and enhance personal capabilities. 'Empowerment: HR strategies for service excellence' uses case studies from companies such as McDonalds, TGI Fridays and Harvester Restaurants to build a picture of empowerment of service employees in context, illustrating how different forms of empowerment are employed and different working arrangements are practiced.

Promotes the theory that superior customer service leads to a superior business organisation

The moment of truth-that instant when consumers experience and judge service quality-is often a deciding factor in business success. Designing Service Excellence: People and Technology provides practical information on the design, management, and organization of many different types of service industries, such as hotels, restaurants, banks and fina

Service operations management in the tourism and hospitality industry requires a high level of coordination, communication and facilitation to satisfy visitors. In all of these activities, service excellence means a lot to visitors in terms of their experience, and to the business it means repeat customers and word-of-mouth marketing. Based on fresh empirical evidence from the field, this book captures the different approaches and challenges to service excellence in the Asian tourism and hospitality industry. Focusing on hotels, attractions, transport providers and other segments in tourism and hospitality, this book presents new case studies underlining and detailing global and local travel industry practices. The book is meant as a reference and supplementary reading for students, researchers and industry practitioners.

Papers presented at the National Seminar on Customer Service Excellence, held at Annamalainagar.

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2020 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, , language: English, abstract: This study provides empirical evidence to clarion calls for insights on the lack of work on resorts specifically the five-star resorts sector which is referred to works by Line and Runyan in identifying the deficiency in empirical evidence towards literature on resorts. This study provides new evidence into the formation of loyalty determinants in the five-star resorts, specifically in the Malaysian tourism industry. Although various studies have been conducted by scholars to identify such a phenomenon, very few has identified salient marketing strategies to be of value to practitioners, in overcoming the lack of loyal customers. This study frames the current problems faced by academia, the industry and the government to produce a cogent discussion on how to solve these problems by providing a strong and tested strategy, the service guarantee, to enhance customer loyalty in the resort sector. Problems associated with the industry and marketing gaps in literature are mainly based on a lack of strategy and factors in determining loyalty from the customers’ perspective. Based on gaps in literature related to the hospitality industry as a whole a lack of a structural modelling and is identified. The second order latent modelling that this study envisions, would provide clearer directions to the industry and other stakeholders to develop and mitigate customer centric marketing strategies to acquire and retain their target markets.