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London Zoo is the UKs premier zoological collection Opened in 1828 Present size of 36 acres Visitor grew up to 2 million per anum in 1950
Problem faced
Since 1960 visitor decline, until reach only 1 million visitors per anum on 1995
What causing the decline ? Financial deficit Socio-economic changes Strong competition on animal attraction Public perception on animal rights
Questions
1. 18 Determinants of service quality a. Using the 18 determinants of service quality, devise your own
questionnaire for the zoo. Compare your questionnaire to the one actually used. b. Which determinants of service quality are investigated by which question? 2. What do the various sets of figures tell you about the zoos performance from the visitors perspective? In which are the zoo performing best of all, and where are the areas of poor performance? Which areas and type of the operational processes do they reflect? How and why do they vary? 3. Do the visitors priorities vary in a similar manner and why? 4. Derive a plan of action and priority list which will help the zoo decide whichaspects of its service provision to tackle first. What factors may need to be taken into account while formulating this order of action?
5. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the questionnaire in its
Performance
Best Performance: - Comfort [4.39] and Communication [3.58] Poor Performance: - Aesththics [1.96] The Zoo have been providing good infrastructure to
comfort visitor and visitor could see our commitment to preserve animal. The downside that visitor still hardly to contact our staff when they need to ask something
Priority
Top Priority: - Happinest of Animal [4.39] - Visibility of Animal [4.37] Lowest Priority: - Smartness & Tidyness of Staff [1.10]
Visitors nowadays are very consent with animal Happiness, That's what The Zoo should improve first
Based on the survey, visitors not really care about smartness and Tidyness of staff. This is due to The Zoo has improved education of all staff
Questionaires
Advantages : Time Cost Uniformity Address a large number of issues and questions Permit Anonymity
Disadvantages: Difficult to obtain a good response rate If badly design, can be misleading Can be misused
Conclusion
London Zoo had been trying many ways in respect to increase their attendance level. One thing that they forgot is to get feedback directly from their visitor. Direct Feedback from customer are very important in every business to keep the business alive.
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