Hospitality Critical Incident Technique
The hospitality critical incident technique studies service quality by collecting and analyzing concrete accounts of especially memorable service encounters, the moments guests recall as outstandingly good or bad. The technique itself was formalized by John Flanagan in 1954 as a set of procedures for gathering direct observations of behavior that are critical to an outcome and classifying them into meaningful categories. Bitner, Booms, and Tetreault adapted it to services in their landmark 1990 study, collecting hundreds of incidents from airline, hotel, and restaurant customers and sorting them to reveal exactly which employee behaviors separate very satisfying encounters from very dissatisfying ones. Applied to hospitality, the method turns guests' vivid stories into a structured map of the behaviors and conditions that drive satisfaction and dissatisfaction in the service encounter.
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- Flanagan, J. C. (1954). The critical incident technique. Psychological Bulletin, 51(4), 327-358. · DOI 10.1037/h0061470
- Bitner, M. J., Booms, B. H., & Tetreault, M. S. (1990). The service encounter: Diagnosing favorable and unfavorable incidents. Journal of Marketing, 54(1), 71-84. · DOI 10.1177/002224299005400105
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