Perception of public service quality on the intention to recommend a tourist destination
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-4867.v36pe025009Keywords:
Public Services, Tourism, Public policyAbstract
The tourism market promotes the search for improvements in public services that have a high impact on a visitor’s experience in a location. Such services have a diverse range of forms, objectives, and target audiences, and at their core are public services whose main users are the population of a location. This work aimed to investigate the relationship between the evaluation of public services by tourists and the recommendation of a city’s tourist destination. The methodology consisted of a survey of a sample of 770 visitors to the city of Recife. Adopting a quantitative approach, a structured questionnaire was used to evaluate various public services and services aimed at tourism, and a variable was used to recommend the destination visited. By applying structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis based on partial least squares (PLS), the result obtained found a positive impact with moderate intensity between the evaluation of public services and the recommendation. The results also pointed to a good evaluation of the services by tourists. Such results point to the importance and impact of public services on the development and growth of tourism in general.
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