Title :
A fuzzy comprehensive evaluation approach with application to measuring tourism destination service quality
Author :
Mengyang, Sun ; Ying, Liu ; Meiyu, Shi
Author_Institution :
Tourism Inst., Beijing Union Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
The foreign tourists´ satisfaction of tourist destination service quality has an important impact on the tourist destinations competitiveness and market expansion. This study is based on the questionnaire data of the Beijing service quality from foreign tourists of the Beijing´s five largest source countries and uses fuzzy comprehensive evaluation for analysis. The results show that the British tourists give the highest service quality evaluation. At the same time, the five countries are classified by the cluster analysis methods in favor of the publicity and marketing.
Keywords :
fuzzy set theory; marketing; quality of service; travel industry; Beijing service quality; cluster analysis methods; fuzzy comprehensive evaluation approach; high service quality evaluation; market expansion; tourism destination service quality; Conference management; Customer satisfaction; Fuzzy set theory; Fuzzy systems; Intelligent systems; Marketing management; Quality management; Resource management; Statistical analysis; Sun;
Conference_Titel :
Grey Systems and Intelligent Services, 2009. GSIS 2009. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4914-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4916-3
DOI :
10.1109/GSIS.2009.5408038