Discuss how the SERVQUAL and CRM models can combine and work together to improve tourism service delivery.

Discuss how the SERVQUAL and CRM models can combine and work together to improve tourism service delivery. According to Masberg and colleagues, “to the customer, only service may distinguish a business from its competition” (Masberg, Chase, & Madlem, 2003, p. 19). While specific customer service jobs require different skills, building an overall customer-oriented organization may better meet customer expectations. Businesses can choose to implement tools to determine customer satisfactions levels, such as the SERVQUAL technique that compares customer perceptions of quality against customer expectations (Morrison, 2010). The text explores the reasons good customer service is critical to our industry. And with the acronym RATER, we now understand the basics of what a customer might expect from an organization. Together, these concepts can form the basis of a customer relationship management (CRM) strategy for tourism and hospitality businesses.