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EXPLORING THE CORE ELEMENTS OF SERVICE PROCESS STRUCTURE IN HOTEL INDUSTRY: ARE THERE ANY COMMON MODELS AND DEFINITIONS?

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Business economics

Abstract

There is an extensive literature confirming that overall business performance can be enhanced by adopting a process-based view of the business that is measured through quality outcomes and customer satisfaction. The importance of focusing attention on business processes is widely recognized and accepted although all uncertainties and operating difficulties within management practice. Our study was motivated by the idea that the lack of well-established conceptual models and definitions of business process play a role in the challenge and difficulty facing organizations when to put the notion of process into practice depending on which processes belonging to a particular activity. The aim of this paper is to describe the findings from the study aiming at forming the conceptual apparatus of service process in hotels to improve service process outcomes in a more systematic manner. By analyzing the data obtained through in-depth interviews, there are several descriptions and definitions of service process from three different perspectives provided by hotel managers, but none that seems to be really widespread and well-established definition with a high emphasis on operational standard procedures (SOPs) of hotel activities and the value can be added through the effective and accurate implementation. Thus, there is a need to pay more attention to additional core elements of service process while planning hotel operation processes and preparing the relevant SOPs by the owner company.

DOI

10.21608/jaauth.2023.214464.1465

Keywords

Keywords: Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process, Service Process, Major Issues, Hotel Industry

Authors

First Name

Batta

Last Name

Allam

MiddleName

Rabie

Affiliation

Minia University/ Faculty of Tourism and Hotels/ Hotel Management Department

Email

batta.allam@mu.edu.eg

City

El-Minia

Orcid

0000-0002-8856-2256

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Bahy El-Din

MiddleName

Hany

Affiliation

Hotel Management Department/ Faculty of Tourism and Hotels/ Helwan University

Email

drhanymoussa@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-8486-5380

First Name

Mohammed

Last Name

Sayed

MiddleName

Saber

Affiliation

Hotel Management, Faculty of Tourism, Helwan University

Email

mohammed.saber140@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0001-5711-0911

Volume

24

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

40659

Issue Date

2023-06-01

Receive Date

2023-05-30

Publish Date

2023-06-01

Page Start

270

Page End

294

Print ISSN

1687-1863

Online ISSN

2682-4612

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https://jaauth.journals.ekb.eg/article_311512.html

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311,512

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Original Article

Type Code

997

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Publication Title

Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality

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https://jaauth.journals.ekb.eg/

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EXPLORING THE CORE ELEMENTS OF SERVICE PROCESS STRUCTURE IN HOTEL INDUSTRY: ARE THERE ANY COMMON MODELS AND DEFINITIONS?

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24 Dec 2024