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Could managers consider waiting times as something positive?

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Abstract

Normally managers consider waiting times as something negative they must minimize or delete. The objective of this paper is to explore how managers perceive waiting times and in which sense the wait can be considered as something positive. This qualitative paper seeks to demonstrate that waiting times can be considered not only as a problem, but requires an analysis from other perspectives. Six in-depth interviews were carried out in order to explore manager’s perception of waiting times in tourism and leisure contexts.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Global Economy, Commerce and Service Science
EditorsTim Chou
PublisherAtlantis Press
Pages352-355
Number of pages4
Volume78
ISBN (Print)978-90-78677-96-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event2014 International Conference on Global Economy, Commerce and Service Science (GECSS2014) - Phuket, Thailand
Duration: 1 Jan 20141 Jan 2014

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems Research
ISSN (Electronic)1951-6851

Conference

Conference2014 International Conference on Global Economy, Commerce and Service Science (GECSS2014)
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityPhuket
Period1/01/141/01/14

Keywords

  • Waiting times
  • Service's managers
  • Tourism and leisure services

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