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Towards the Lifestyle Hotel Experience: A Redefinition, A Ruler, and A Ramification

Li, Yizhi
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1593640770095628

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2020, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Consumer Sciences.
Currently hospitality literature on lifestyle hotels predominantly hold a concept that is defined by the industry. Contradicting such perspective, chapter 2 adopts a phenomenological approach to redefine the meaning of lifestyle hotel and lifestyle hotel experience that is generated within consumers. It is discovered that sense of community and culture is the spirit of a lifestyle hotel that lives up to its name. In addition, it is uncovered that lifestyle hotels are essentially different from traditional hotels for meeting consumer’s higher-ordered social needs. Chapter 3 inherits the definition of lifestyle hotel from chapter 2 and demonstrates the development of a scale, LHEI—Lifestyle Hotel Experience Index, that captures consumer’s lifestyle hotel experience. The validity and reliability of LHEI is also provided. In chapter 4, findings form the former two chapters are combined and tested quantitatively. Results suggested that findings in chapter 2 and LHEI form chapter 3 have adaptive usefulness in hospitality research. Additionally, lifestyle hotels are found to have the psychological function of fulfilling consumer’s basic psychological needs—relatedness; as well as the behavioral functions of consumer’s willingness to pay a premium to stay at lifestyle hotels compared with traditional hotels and their intention to share their lifestyle hotel experience on social media when they feel their relatedness needs are satisfied. This dissertation contributes to hospitality research by providing new avenues for lifestyle hotel research. It contributes to the industry as a wakeup call for more sustainable and consumer-centric strategies in value co-creation. Most importantly, it may provide channels for promoting consumer’s psychological wellbeing.
Milos Bujisic (Committee Chair)
Stephanie Liu (Committee Co-Chair)
Jay Kandampully (Committee Member)
127 p.
Behavioral Sciences; Marketing
lifestyle hotel; hospitality; consumer behavior; experience study

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  • Li, Y. (2020). Towards the Lifestyle Hotel Experience: A Redefinition, A Ruler, and A Ramification [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1593640770095628

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Li, Yizhi. Towards the Lifestyle Hotel Experience: A Redefinition, A Ruler, and A Ramification. 2020. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1593640770095628.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Li, Yizhi. "Towards the Lifestyle Hotel Experience: A Redefinition, A Ruler, and A Ramification." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1593640770095628

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