Exploring Relationships Between Customer Satisfaction and Customer Attitude from Customer Relationship Management Viewpoint: An Empirical Study of Leisure Travellers

In the business world, customer relationship management (CRM) has emerged as the main marketing activity of the service firms. Organizations thrive to maintain long-lasting relationships with their customers. The priority of the firms is to maximize the relationship share (RS) with profitable customers. The current study aims at identifying determinants of RS for hotels leisure travellers. The findings indicate that customer satisfaction (CS) and attitude towards the hotel in the relationship are major predictors of RS. Besides, CS indirectly affects RS through customer’s attitude towards the hotel. The findings of the present study will help the practitioners to design CRM programme better and reap its maximum benefits.