Analysis of the quality of service and customer satisfaction in the practice of rafting in the Tena canton

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Álvaro Santiago Toalombo Díaz
Tania Cristina Cevallos Punguil
Gary Patricio Rivadeneyra Olalla
Esteban Alejandro Aguilar Soria

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Rafting is an activity that consists of navigating rivers, controlled by the navigator using oars, with equipment and trained personnel to guide the route. The purpose of this research is to analyze the quality of service and customer satisfaction in the practice of rafting in the Tena canton, year 2020. The design of the research was quantitative and descriptive, with the use of statistical methods of correlational coefficient and one-way ANOVA analysis of variance. A SERVQUAL model survey was applied to a sample of 385 clients of the travel agencies of the Tena canton. Among the results, it is evident that the quality index reflects tangibility as the dimension with the lowest average perception, the calculation of the General average of the 5 dimensions valued over a value of 4.06 represents 81.44% of the clients who perceive a good quality service according to the percentage degree 0-100% of the Likert scale. It was concluded that the highest gaps with the perception of the client and their expectation are tangibility (-0.06), reliability (-0.06) and empathy (-0.05), points where it is necessary to implement quality strategies, the Hypothesis analysis reflects a correlation coefficient on service quality and customer satisfaction with 0.828 and a significant one of 0.01, multivariate correlation analysis of quality dimensions such as tangibility and responsiveness, no are related to the customer's perception of the service.

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Toalombo Díaz, Álvaro S., Cevallos Punguil, T. C., Rivadeneyra Olalla, G. P., & Aguilar Soria, E. A. (2021). Analysis of the quality of service and customer satisfaction in the practice of rafting in the Tena canton. ConcienciaDigital, 4(2.2), 153-171. https://doi.org/10.33262/concienciadigital.v4i2.2.1784
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