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In a service quality perspective, the animal behavior of humans (e.g. human ethology) in queues has, to our knowledge, never been observed. This paper provides an empirical exploratory enquiry with the scope to understand skiers’ behaviors in cable cars queues in order to improve their overall satisfaction. We carried 82 immersions and 43 semi-directed interviews in the Swiss Alps (Valais), during the scholar vacations of February 2016. Along with the literature review, this research provides hypotheses to better understand the interface between a human queue and a mechanical transportation system. To adjust to the rigid system of the cable cars, our results show that a queue’s regulation is mostly based on ethological behavior.
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We would like to thanks Christelle Deillon, Michael Kambly, and Lionel Emery for their commitment to this project, especially for their data gathering.
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Fragnière, E., Gaillet, V., Nanchen, B., Ramseyer, R. (2017). Using Ethological Approaches to Understand Skiers’ Behavior in Cable Cars Queues in Order to Improve Overall Satisfaction: An Empirical Study Conducted in the Swiss Alps. In: Za, S., Drăgoicea, M., Cavallari, M. (eds) Exploring Services Science. IESS 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 279. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56925-3_33
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