ABSTRACT
This study aims to fill the gap between gamification features and their impacts on practical marketing activities in The Covid -19 era by providing a comprehensive analysis between gamification features: immersion (storytelling), achievement (reward), and social (competition) on customer experience (CX) and engagement (CE). In this study, a Quasi-experimental design method was used to examine the relationship of the gamification features on CX and engagement. To investigate, an online survey was distributed to 200 students and they were exposed to three different scenarios randomly. Structural equation modeling, Analysis of variance (ANOVA), t-test, regression, path analysis and Sobel test were used to evaluate the impacts of gamification on CX and engagement. The results reveal that gamification has positive effect on CE and CX while, achievement has a more substantial impact than immersion and social on CX, competition has a stronger positive effect than storytelling but weaker positive effect than reward. © 2023 Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research. All rights reserved.
ABSTRACT
Because of the COVID-19, the tourism industry has been greatly affected, especially the occupancy rate of hotel companies. This study analyzes the effects of customer engagement and service evaluation on brand trust and customer behavioral intention based on 437 valid questionnaires from Chinese economy hotel companies using SPSS and AMOS. The components of customer engagement are subdivided into five dimensions: identification, enthusiasm, attention, absorption and interaction, and the impact of these five dimensions on brand trust in the COVID- 19 is investigated. Finally, it verifies the influence of trust on customers' word-of-mouth (WOM) intention and customers' reuse intention. The results of this study not only enrich the research on customer engagement and service evaluation in marketing circles but also give some advice to hotel companies in the COVID-19 customer engagement and service evaluation that can enhance the trust of enterprises and promote the behavior intention of customers, which has certain practical reference value.