The Dynamic Recovery of Services and Loyalty to Customers in the Hoteling Industry

When dealing with the dynamics of systems, tools and processes may be of use to understand the behavior of complex systems and, consequently, to make decisions and adopt appropriate policies. These all can be guided in the right direction to make changes. In this study, the technique of dynamic modeling is conducted to revive services in hotels, and the long-term impact of this revival on the brand and increase of customers is investigated. Next, a dynamic system is introduced and the services are restored by thoughtful considering of all the aspects of the issue, such as education and employment of trained and experienced staff, quality of human resources, quality of services, customer’s cost (price), quick resolving of service claims and customer complaints, degree of attractiveness to customers and competitors of the hotel, simulation of the impact of each variable on customer services and, customer’s loyalty. The method of the research was interviews with 100 experts and customers of 3-star hotels and over in the city of Mashhad as well as the statistical data available in the literature along with Vensim software. The study is done in a 58-year perspective from 2013 to 2071. The research focuses on proper strategies and policies, explains different scenarios, and extracts the factors that affect hotel customers’ loyalty in the competitive world.