英文摘要 |
This study employed a catastrophe theory to explore the client choice behavior in international tourist hotels. This paper aims to find out whether loyalty leads to the non-continual change phenomenon by examining factors such as cost of transfer and service quality. This study conducted a questionnaire survey on guests staying at Kenting Caesar Park Hotel and Howard Hotel. A total of 172 valid questionnaires were collected. The empirical results indicated four characteristics exist: divergence, catastrophe, hysteresis, and bimodality. When consumers need to pay a higher transfer cost, they develop non-continual behavior changes. On that account, adopting new strategies of service quality can hardly change consumers' choice behavior. However, if hotels resort to strategies that combine service quality and transfer cost, their marketing promotion may be more effective. |