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Designing Tourism Services in an Era of Information Overload

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Modern technologies enable consumers to receive more information than ever before. The access to (and even overload of) information has changed the ways by which desirable customer service ratings are achieved at tourism destinations. This chapter details how information access has diminished the role of tangible or physical aspects of a tourism experience in the formulations of visitors’ customer service evaluations. Second, this chapter discusses how modern information overload has increased the importance of inserting script deviations in the tourist’s experience in order to achieve top-rate customer service evaluations.

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  1. Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA

    Vince Magnini

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  1. Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

    Daniel R. Fesenmaier

  2. Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

    Zheng Xiang

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Magnini, V. (2017). Designing Tourism Services in an Era of Information Overload. In: Fesenmaier, D., Xiang, Z. (eds) Design Science in Tourism. Tourism on the Verge. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42773-7_11

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