The present day, hotels provide new products and services in order to meet their customer's various needs and the competition between hotels has been keen. Under the present situation of severe competition in the hotel industry, hotels should prevent ...
The present day, hotels provide new products and services in order to meet their customer's various needs and the competition between hotels has been keen. Under the present situation of severe competition in the hotel industry, hotels should prevent the customer from leaving and maintain the relationship with repeating customers and also create the customer's satisfaction. It is necessary for hotels to activate the relationship marketing strategy, which can maintain the relationship with their customers and improve customer's satisfaction on their product and make their customers to loyal ones, so that hotels can make sustaining and stable growth. However, hotels have not yet recognized the importance of the relationship marketing activities, and they have not carried out the relationship with the customer efficiently.
This study is to exhibit the importance of relationship marketing activities of hotel industry and analyze the effectiveness of those activities in the of relationship formed between customers and hotel industry. The purpose of this study is to establish theoretical basis for relationship marketing exercised in the hotel industry and to empirically analyze casual relationship among factors of hotel relationship marketing, together with quality and the performance of the relationship. In order to meet the objective of this study, following three steps were taken.
First, the researcher extracted factors of relationship marketing activities of hotel industry through reviewing various related literatures, such as confidence, contact and communication service to hotel guest, on a relationship marketing. Second, the researcher examined the effect of relationship marketing activities of hotel industry to the quality of relationship comprised of trust and satisfaction of customers. Third, the researcher examined the effect of trust to satisfaction both of which consist of the quality of relationship, the quality of relationship to the customer switching behavior and the customer loyalty, and the switching factors to the customer loyalty. This study surveyed through theological background from the advanced research, and also established its hypothesis. In order to test hypotheses and model, the data were gathered from a questionnaire personally administrated to 193 respondents by random sampling residing in Seoul area. The field survey was carried out and data from 193 peoples who had used the super deluxe hotels in Seoul were collected. The several statistical method were used including descriptive analysis, reliability rest, confirmatory factor analysis, Cronbach's alpha, T-test, regression analysis with SPSS/window and used the structure analysis with Amos for hypothesis testing. The findings resulted from the empirical analysis are as follows. First, according to the test result, confidence service act as antecedents of symbolic relationship marketing activities. So, symbolic relationship marketing activities has a direct influence upon the quality of relationship(trust, satisfaction). The result determinant of the quality of relationship. Second, contact guest service acting have negative influence upon relationship marketing activities. Third, communication service acting affect the quality of relationship, so they act as antecedents for the quality of relationship. Also as a result investigating the influence of communication service acting factors, hotel newsletter, direct mail, information, membership, telemarketing service have the influence upon the direct effect and the total effect as well. Fourth, the quality of relationship(trust, satisfaction) influence upon performance (customer switching behavior, customer loyalty). Also, customer switching behavior influence upon customer loyalty. Finally, this study suggest that in order to enforce the customer loyalty and switching behavior, confidence, communication service, trust, satisfaction, relationship enhancement, relationship continuity, which are all effective variables of the hotel relationship marketing activities. And the marketer of hotel may use it usefully as the optional and the best tool in the establishment of the strategy to enforce the customer loyalty or the relationship marketing mix, new service development, market positioning, market segmentation, corporate identity strategy about hotel. Also it may be used as a useful database in the research on the attitude or behavior of hotel customers.