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QFD Application in the Hospitality Industry: A Hotel Case Study Kioumars Paryani, Lawrence TechnoLogicaL UniversiTy ali masoudi, azad UniversiTy, soUTh Branch of Tehran ElizabEth a. CudnEy, MissoUri UniversiTy of science and TechnoLogy © 2010, asQ Quality function deployment (QFD) is a methodology for capturing and translating the voice of the customer (VOC) into engineering characteristics of products or services. In addition, the process prioritizes and deploys these customer-driven characteristics
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