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University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA

ABSTRACT

This paper explores and validates the process of customer value creation in self-service technologies (SSTs) in the context of the tourism industry. As the self-technology has been gradually advanced, its adoption in the tourism industry has brought many changes. A new trend of self-service technologies has helped service firms to save the labor costs and customers’ waiting time for transactions. The purpose of this study is to confirm an applicability and a design of the original model of SSTs and explore the connection between SSTs and creation of value perception through a confirmatory factor analysis in the context of the tourism industry. Furthermore, the results of the online survey questionnaire from 234 responses in the United States and South Korea are explained in this study. The results of this study concluded that five statistically important factors are related to customers’ motivations to use SSTs and enable customers to interact with SSTs as “SST location and capacity planning”, “SST service quality”, “motivations to use SST”, “SST design”, and “SST encounter”. These factors may imply an important meaning to better understand about customer value during the adoption of SSTs in the tourism industry. Tourism firms may use the results of this study to effectively enhance how customers perceive value about their products and services during the usage of SSTs. This will help tourism firms’ efficiencies on the adoption of SSTs for their business plans and help them remain profitable in the competitive market.


KEYWORDS

self-service technologies (SSTs), customer value, customer satisfaction, tourism industry, confirmatory factor analysis

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Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management, May-June 2022, Vol. 10, No. 3, 119-134, doi: 10.17265/2328-2169/2022.03.002.

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