LODGSERV Lodging Service Quality Index

LODGSERV is a 26-item index developed by Knutson, Stevens, Wullaert, Patton, and Yokoyama in 1990 to measure consumers' expectations of service quality in the hotel experience. Building directly on the SERVQUAL framework, it organizes lodging expectations into the five generic service-quality dimensions — tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy — and was reported with a high internal-consistency reliability of 0.92. LODGSERV was one of the first industry-specific adaptations of SERVQUAL and served as the methodological forerunner to the restaurant-focused DINESERV from the same research group. It gives hoteliers a validated way to capture what guests expect from a stay and to structure those expectations for comparison with delivered performance.