Abstract:
This research was carried out to study the level of Chinese language used to service the Chinese tourist in spa business in Thailand, in which Health Land Spa and Massage was chosen to be the studied spa.
This research study the level of Chinese language used to service the Chinese tourists, customer satisfaction with service, the problems arise when access to the service as well as the improvement for better service. This research was conducted through the use of secondary data, staff interviewing and questionnaire.
The analysis shows that the level of Chinese language used by the spas staffs is very low in every skill including listening and speaking, especially the spa vocabulary and grammar which leads to middle satisfaction from the tourist to the spa in term of communication. The most satisfying point is the manner of the staffs while the least satisfying point assessed by the Chinese tourist is the unavailable of Chinese information on the website.
The main problem found from this study is an inadequate Chinese language skill of the staffs. Therefore, it is recommended to provide Chinese language training to the staffs and emphasises more on the vocabularies related to spa and Chinese culture.