Guests' perceptions on factors influencing customer loyalty: an analysis for UK hotels.

TLDR: In this article, the authors explore the performance of UK hotels, in terms of various service attributes, and whether it influences customers' intention to stay again, based on data collected from online customer ratings of 664 hotels in the UK.

Abstract: Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the performance of UK hotels, in terms of various service attributes, and whether it influences customers' intention to stay again.Design/methodology/approach – Data are used from online customer ratings of 664 hotels in the UK for the purpose. The approach is based on an interesting use of statistical regression reported in the literature that attempted to classify different cues in hotels as critical, satisfier, dissatisfier, etc. In this study, six prominent attributes are considered, namely: customer service, cleanliness, room quality, value for money, quality of food, and family friendliness, rated by guests, based on their experiences of staying in hotels.Findings – The findings reveal that “Value for money” is a critical attribute, while “Customer service”, “Room quality” and “Quality of food” are dissatisfiers. Business guests, and guests of independent hotels, exhibit similar behavior, but for leisure guests, and guests of chain hotels, “Value for money” is a...