Do passengers perceive flying first class as a luxury experience?

Autor: Eileen Lee, Carl A Boger, Andy Heyes
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Research in Hospitality Management, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 15-25 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2224-3534
2415-5152
22243534
DOI: 10.1080/22243534.2020.1867375
Popis: The definition of a single luxury experience has remained elusive to the airline industry, experts, scholars, and even luxury consumers. The duality of luxury suggests that experiences must provide a sense of prestige and hedonic well-being to be perceived as luxurious by consumers. This study proposed that consumers’ feeling of prestige influences their hedonic well-being, as suggested by self-determination theory. Passengers derive a sense of prestige from their sensory and behavioural experiences. Meanwhile, they derive hedonic well-being from their sense of prestige and their sensory and intellectual experiences. Thus, the first-class cabin experience was confirmed as luxurious. The airline industry should enhance sensory, intellectual, and behavioural experiences in their first-class cabins to increase the luxuriousness of the first-class experience.
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