A Study of Important Website Design Criteria to Achieve Customer Satisfaction of University Students Browsing China Tour Agency Websites

The purpose of this study is to identify important website design criteria that will impact students’ satisfaction of tour agencies’ websites for e-tourism in China. As the e-tourism market is developing very fast in the world as well as in China, and the trend of the combination of tourism and e-co...

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Main Author: Lu, Xiaotong
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2013
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description The purpose of this study is to identify important website design criteria that will impact students’ satisfaction of tour agencies’ websites for e-tourism in China. As the e-tourism market is developing very fast in the world as well as in China, and the trend of the combination of tourism and e-commence is not unstopped, the development of the tour agencies’ website becomes more important for the tour agencies to attract more customers for increasing e-tourism. As web quality of the tour agencies’ websites is affecting the performance of the tour agencies in China, how to develop the websites of the tour agencies to focus on. In this study, four factors will be chosen as indicator to test customer satisfaction, which are quality of information, website navigability, website confidence/trust, and website innovativeness. In this research, SPSS 20.0 is used to analyze the data from responses of university students collected through a questionnaire. The analysis methods include descriptive analysis as well as reliability and validity, correlation, and regression test. In addition, SmartPLS is also used to further analyze the data. According to the data analysis, website confidence/trust has the most influence on customer satisfaction. Thus, tour agencies can improve their websites to meet university students’ needs and then improve customer satisfaction in order to attract younger and well educated customers, and improve company performance.
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spelling intimal-7832017-05-15T01:39:15Z http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/783/ A Study of Important Website Design Criteria to Achieve Customer Satisfaction of University Students Browsing China Tour Agency Websites Lu, Xiaotong HD28 Management. Industrial Management The purpose of this study is to identify important website design criteria that will impact students’ satisfaction of tour agencies’ websites for e-tourism in China. As the e-tourism market is developing very fast in the world as well as in China, and the trend of the combination of tourism and e-commence is not unstopped, the development of the tour agencies’ website becomes more important for the tour agencies to attract more customers for increasing e-tourism. As web quality of the tour agencies’ websites is affecting the performance of the tour agencies in China, how to develop the websites of the tour agencies to focus on. In this study, four factors will be chosen as indicator to test customer satisfaction, which are quality of information, website navigability, website confidence/trust, and website innovativeness. In this research, SPSS 20.0 is used to analyze the data from responses of university students collected through a questionnaire. The analysis methods include descriptive analysis as well as reliability and validity, correlation, and regression test. In addition, SmartPLS is also used to further analyze the data. According to the data analysis, website confidence/trust has the most influence on customer satisfaction. Thus, tour agencies can improve their websites to meet university students’ needs and then improve customer satisfaction in order to attract younger and well educated customers, and improve company performance. 2013 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/783/1/113.pdf Lu, Xiaotong (2013) A Study of Important Website Design Criteria to Achieve Customer Satisfaction of University Students Browsing China Tour Agency Websites. Masters thesis, INTI International University.
spellingShingle HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Lu, Xiaotong
A Study of Important Website Design Criteria to Achieve Customer Satisfaction of University Students Browsing China Tour Agency Websites
title A Study of Important Website Design Criteria to Achieve Customer Satisfaction of University Students Browsing China Tour Agency Websites
title_full A Study of Important Website Design Criteria to Achieve Customer Satisfaction of University Students Browsing China Tour Agency Websites
title_fullStr A Study of Important Website Design Criteria to Achieve Customer Satisfaction of University Students Browsing China Tour Agency Websites
title_full_unstemmed A Study of Important Website Design Criteria to Achieve Customer Satisfaction of University Students Browsing China Tour Agency Websites
title_short A Study of Important Website Design Criteria to Achieve Customer Satisfaction of University Students Browsing China Tour Agency Websites
title_sort study of important website design criteria to achieve customer satisfaction of university students browsing china tour agency websites
topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
url http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/783/
http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/783/1/113.pdf