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The Impact of Customer Care on Experiences in Service Quality Delivery(a case study of Labadi Beach Hotel-Ghana)

<p>ABSTRACT</p><p>COURSE:</p><p>Bachelor Thesis in Business Administration 15 ECTS</p><p>AUTHORS: Ossai Uche, (21st March 1980), Västerås.</p><p>Prosper Akpabli Hanyabui, (17th March 1980), Västerås.</p><p>PROBLEM STATEMENT</p><p>How can Labadi Beach Hotel improve on customer care activities in order to create a positive customer experiences in the hotel?</p><p>PURPOSE:</p><p>The purpose of this study is to describe what Labadi Beach Hotel is doing and what they could do to improve customer care. Furthermore we shall also find out the problems or complaints encountered by customers in the course of service delivery and make necessary recommendations.</p><p>METHODOLOGY:</p><p>This thesis shall be based on a qualitative method of study with information gotten from Labadi Beach Hotel. This is due to the fact that in order to fulfil the purpose, it would require an in-depth research in the form of a qualitative study. The main sources of data comprises of primary and secondary data. Primary sources of data were gotten through telephone interview with employees of the hotel as well as designed questionnaire from the hotel guest. Secondary data were gotten from articles, journals, books, websites etc.</p><p>CONCLUSION:</p><p>We observed that customer care is being implemented at Labadi Beach Hotel in order to create a positive customer experiences. This is done through the recruitment of qualified employees and conduction of training programs. In addition, Labadi Beach Hotel has developed a service oriented internal process through the use of procedures. Moreover new recruits are retained upon successfully passing an appraisal report. This has actually resulted in friendly and courteous attitudes of its employees towards hotel guest. Furthermore, Labadi Beach Hotel has internal complaint system to check service failures.</p><p>Lastly, customer complaints received were embodied around Availability, Tangibles, Reliability, Responsiveness, and Empathy. It must however be noted that despite the guest complaints received, the aspect of positive customer experience in each of the dimensions above outnumbers the complaints. In spite of what Labadi Beach Hotel is doing to improve customer care, suggested measures were recommended to help them further improve upon customer care.</p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:mdh-735
Date January 2008
CreatorsHanyabui, Akpabli, Ossai, Uche
PublisherMälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, Västerås : Mälardalens högskola
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, text
RelationSchool of Business Research Reports, ;

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