Abstract:
This Independent Study (IS) seeks the ways to develop services and image development of budget hotel, a case study of B2 hotel Chiang Rai province. The study aims to examine the budget hotels service quality including problems and barriers. Furthermore, this study intent to suggest the guideline for services and image development of budget hotel. 400 questionnaire surveys were collected from guests of B2 hotel in Chiang Rai province by using of convenience sampling. Statistics used in this study was descriptive statistics and some interview statistics. Additional, T-Test was employed to compare means between two groups of the samples whereas ANOVA was used to identify the significant difference of more than two groups. The in-depth interviews were carried out with 5 hotel staffs including the hotel manager.
The results revealed that in overall services B2 hotel has high service level which most respondents assessed highest service level in Empathy following by Tangibility, Assurance, Reliability and Responsiveness respectively.
The results of image development of B2 hotel by interviewed with the servicing staffs of B2 Chiang Rai hotel found that: For responding to customers, every employee had knowledge and ability and was ready to service the hotels customers in a good level; For credibility, every employee could solve facing problems and was ready to service the hotels customers well; For confidence to customers, every employee would inform the hotels customers thoroughly and clearly to create confidence to customers to avoid any errors; For knowing and understanding customers, employees were ready to service and hear customers problems willingly and friendly, and; For tangible things, every employee dressed tidily as the hotels rule. That the information obtained from this study will be the ways to develop servicing quality and image development of B2 hotel Chiang Rai Province.