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Does getting along matter?: Tourist-tourist rapport in guided group activities
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Industrial Economics and Management (Dept.). Nottingham Trent Univ, Nottingham Business Sch, 50 Shakespeare St, Nottingham NG1 4FQ, England..
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Industrial Economics and Management (Dept.). Webster Univ Geneva, Walker Sch Business & Technol, 15 Route Collex, CH-1293 Bellevue, Switzerland..
Simon Fraser Univ, 500 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6C 1W6, Canada.;Luiss, Viale Romania 32, I-00197 Rome, Italy..
2021 (English)In: Tourism Management, ISSN 0261-5177, E-ISSN 1879-3193, Vol. 87, p. 104381-, article id 104381Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Guided group activities, where tourists consume with other tourists, are common and important. Although the tourism and services literature suggests customer-employee rapport impacts customer satisfaction, the composition and impact of tourist-tourist rapport in guided group activities have received minimal attention. We use a three-study mixed method approach to conceptualize and examine tourist-tourist rapport in guided group activities. Study 1 identifies two recognized dyadic dimensions of tourist-tourist rapport (enjoyable interaction and personal connection) and two new group-based dimensions (group attentiveness and service congruity). Study 2 (video experiment) and Study 3 (field experiment) find that enjoyable interaction and personal connection mediate the relationship between group attentiveness and service congruity with satisfaction. Thus, touristtourist rapport in a group context is more multidimensional and complex than previously conceptualized for customer-employee rapport and non-group contexts. Further, we find tourist-tourist rapport is a critical service factor such that high levels satisfy, while low levels dissatisfy.

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Elsevier BV , 2021. Vol. 87, p. 104381-, article id 104381
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rapport, tourist-tourist interactions, group services, guided group activities, service satisfaction, service congruity, group attentiveness
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-305328DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2021.104381ISI: 000713714900015Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85109478249OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-305328DiVA, id: diva2:1615778
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Available from: 2021-12-01 Created: 2021-12-01 Last updated: 2024-03-15Bibliographically approved

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