--- RESEAARCH PROJECT BMBR5103 “WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF SERVICE QUALITY ON CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN SHERATON SAIGON HOTEL?” STUDENT FULL NAME: DOAN ANH TU STUDENT ID: CGS 00019887 INTAKE: SEPTEMBER, 2015 ADVISOR’S NAME & TITLE: Dr. BUI PHI PHUNG (DBA) FEBRUARY 2017 1 --- Advisor’s assessment. Advisor’s signature 2 --- ABSTRACT The research’s aim is to analyze the impact of service quality on customer satisfaction in Sheraton Saigon Hotel. To gain the main aim of this research, there are three main objectives for this research: (1) to analyze how customer satisfaction is impacted by factors of service quality (tangibles, assurance, reliability, empathy, and responsiveness) in Sheraton Saigon Hotel, (2) to analyze the level of customers’ satisfaction on the hotel service quality of Sheraton Saigon Hotel and (3) to suggest solutions regarding hotel service quality for Sheraton Saigon Hotel to increase its customers’ satisfaction on its hotel service quality in the future.
This research seeks positivism research philosophy, survey strategy, method of data collection (questionnaire, sampling size of 150 customers of Sheraton Saigon Hotel and simple random sampling), deduction research approach, quantitative research method, method of data analysis (descriptive analysis, test of reliability and linear regression analysis). This research explores that assurance, reliability, and responsiveness of hotel service in Sheraton Saigon Hotel have strong and positive impacts on customer’s satisfaction while this research explores that tangibles and empathy of hotel services in Sheraton Saigon Hotel do not have any impacts on customer’s satisfaction. This research explores that the level of customer’s satisfaction on the hotel services’ quality in the case of Sheraton Saigon hotel is high because the majority of customers’ expectations about the service quality of this hotel are met by this hotel. In addition, this research suggests solutions regarding hotel service quality for Sheraton Saigon Hotel to increase its customers’ satisfaction on its hotel service quality in the future.
3 CHAPTER ONE – INTRODUCTION .3 Research aim and objectives .4 Justification of the research .5 Limitations of the research .6 Structure of the research. 10 CHAPTER TWO – LITERATURE REVIEW.4 How customer satisfaction is impacted by service quality .1 Customer satisfaction and tangibles .2 Customer satisfaction and assurance .3 Customer satisfaction and reliability .4 Customer satisfaction and empathy .5 Customer satisfaction and responsiveness .5 The gaps in the literature. 22 CHAPTER THREE – METHODOLOGY .6 Method of data collection.1 Data collection instrument .2 Sampling method and size .7 Method of data analysis .9 Research methodology limitations. 30 CHAPTER FOUR – ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH FINDINGS .2 Surveyed customers’ demographic information .4 The relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction in Sheraton Saigon Hotel .5 The customer’s satisfaction level towards service quality in Sheraton Saigon Hotel.
38 CHAPTER FIVE – DISCUSSIONS OF RESEARCH FINDINGS .2 Discussions of research findings. 45 CHAPTER SIX – CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMEDATIONS. 57 6 --- CHAPTER ONE – INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction The world’s market trend has substantially changed from agricultural aspect to service aspect (Rao and Sahu, 2013). All service companies have a great emphasis on the improvement of their service quality to satisfy basic expectations of their customers.
When requirements of customers are clearly known, hotel operators have the high ability to forecast and fulfill demands and wants of their customers (Bucak, 2014). The higher the customer satisfaction is, the higher the customer loyalty is (Yilmaz, 2009a). Currently, hotel visitors seem to have high needs for high-quality hotel services. Hotels with the high-quality services will be able to compete with their rivals and will gain high positions in minds of customers (Akbaba, 2006).
In the context in Vietnam, hotel visitors will prefer hotels with the high-quality services and have positive word-of- mouth comments about such hotels (Nguyen et al. The importance of service quality in increasing customers’ satisfaction in the hotel industry in Vietnam has been recognized (Nguyen et al. Hence, this research aims to analyze what the impact of service quality on customers’ satisfaction in Sheraton Saigon Hotel – A famous hotel in Vietnam is. Consequently, a study question is created to have further investigation about this research issue.2 Research question Previous literature has recognized that service quality is crucial factor deciding customers’ satisfaction (Gil et al.