Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:53:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FranciscoAC.pdf: 1386214 bytes, checksum: 3c754f8c0154cb5dd4c1bb62a81da4af (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-19 / This Thesis deals with a study on customer satisfaction and loyalty focusing on a model of factors antecedents of customer satisfaction and loyalty. The model is based on a Satisfaction Index model adopted in Norway developed by Johnson et al.(2001) and the service quality drivers from the literature. It is surveyed a sample of tourist in Natal. It is used a survey questionnaire applied at the airport in the departure moment of the tourist. The final sample results on 198 cases. Is is used a multiple regression analysis as the method to verify the factor affecting satisfaction and loyalty. Two models arise from the analysis. The first model concerning satisfaction results with cleaness and hygiene of the bathroom, leisure facilities, employees promptness, and price as the significant factors affecting satisfaction. The model has a R2 of 0.6430 and the also check in service, cleaness of the apartment and the hotel in general, bedroom setting have colinearity with some factors entering the model. The loyalty model results with satisfaction, affective commitment as the main factors affecting loyalty, with a R2 0.5396, and also image has collinearity with satisfaction. A small part of the sample has complained and this factor was not considered in the models. The results are consistent with the literature in term of quality as the main driver of the satisfaction and that it is not the only one factor to explain loyalty / Esta tese de mestrado tem como estrat?gia de estudo os fatores que contribuem para a satisfa??o e fidelidade do cliente, enfocando o novo modelo de ?ndice noruegu?s de satisfa??o e fidelidade do consumidor, aplicado no setor de servi?o hoteleiro em Natal, Brasil. Considerando as caracter?sticas dos servi?os prestados pelas organiza??es que lidam com os meios de hospedagem, a pesquisa te?rica foi direcionada para os conceitos de satisfa??o e fidelidade do cliente, modelos de sistemas de gest?o da qualidade e m?todos que dimensionam a satisfa??o do consumidor. A pesquisa de campo foi com 198 h?spedes, realizada no per?odo de 23 a 31 de julho de 2003, com os turistas que se hospedaram nos hot?is em Natal. As an?lises dos dados foram feitas atrav?s da estat?stica descritiva e an?lise de regress?o m?ltipla. Os resultados evidenciam que as principais vari?veis que influenciaram a satisfa??o s?o: limpeza e higieniza??o do banheiro do apartamento, ?rea de lazer do hotel, presteza dos funcion?rios e pre?o pago ao hotel que explicam 64,30% da varia??o na satisfa??o com os hot?is. Em rela??o ? fidelidade dos h?spedes, os construtos antecedentes que influenciaram foram: a satisfa??o dos h?spedes e compromisso afetivo, os quais explicam 52,95% da variabilidade dos dados