Savoring tourism: Exploring basic processes

Miyakawa, Erika; Pearce, Philip L.; Oguchi, Takashi

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2022.103498

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“…The technology type (email vs. chatbot) and country (Czech Republic vs. Spain) were factors, and each of the dimensions of EQS and its overall evaluation was a dependent variable. Other studies in the tourism sphere have also used this type of technique to identify differences between groups (e.g., [70][71][72]).…”

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Chatbot Service Quality: An Experiment Comparing Two Countries with Different Levels of Digital Literacy

Vena-Oya,

Castañeda-García,

Burys

2024

Tourism and Hospitality

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The use of new technologies in tourism is bringing about a genuine revolution in the sector, where automated services, such as chatbots, are increasingly being used to perform some of the tasks involved in service delivery. However, the emergence of new technologies in a sector as globalized as tourism can mean that not all users are able to perceive the benefits of these innovations. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine whether the digital literacy (DL) of a tourist may lead to different evaluations of the quality of the electronic service they received, both overall and as per the different dimensions of quality. This study compares a more innovative and interactive service-provision technology (a chatbot) with a more traditional one (email). To this end, an experiment was conducted in which 124 participants from Spain (higher DL) and the Czech Republic (lower DL) were asked to interact with these two technologies in a simulated hotel customer-service scenario. The results show that individuals with higher DL rated the quality of service received via chatbot higher than individuals with lower DL. The latter prefer email because they perceived it to provide greater security, empathy, reliability, and information quality. However, participants with higher DL preferred the chatbot due to its greater competence in completing the task. Finally, the participants rated the responsiveness of the chatbot higher than that of email. These results can help the introduction of chatbot-based customer service in the tourism sector.

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