Over the past three years, the hospitality industry has been hit hard and faced difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic where, economic and social activities around the world halted, causing unprecedented problems in society.
Owing to concerns ab...
Over the past three years, the hospitality industry has been hit hard and faced difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic where, economic and social activities around the world halted, causing unprecedented problems in society.
Owing to concerns about COVID-19 infections, customers have become reluctant to conduct face-to-face transactions and eat in-store, which has had a significant impact on domestic hotels, restaurants, and industrial development. However, as the reopening of businesses began in earnest, external activities such as domestic travel increased. In addition, as domestic tourism demand among foreign travelers increases rapidly due to the Korean Wave, it is expected that K-Food, which incorporates K-content, will emerge as a growing trend for restaurants.
Therefore, as the hotel industry begins to recover and the inbound market begins to gain momentum, it can be an important opportunity to prepare a marketing mix to achieve competitive advantages for hotel restaurants in the future.
For hotel restaurants, it is as important to prevent the loss of existing customers as it is to attract new customers in preparation for the post COVID-19 era. As part of these efforts, hotel restaurants need to pay attention to feedback on customers' experiences and their experiential marketing mix. This is because the marketing mix is an important element in strengthening the capabilities of hotel restaurants by creating a new paradigm.
In this study, focusing on the importance of this marketing mix, we aim to investigate the impact of hotel restaurant users on satisfaction through customer congruence and the impact of self-congruity and satisfaction on loyalty.
The results of this study will provide theoretical implications for hotel restaurants marketing mix on self-congruity, satisfaction, and loyalty, and will provide practical implications for hotel restaurants to design and implement efficient marketing strategies. For the purpose of the study, the theoretical background based on previous domestic and international studies, and measurement tools were presented to verify each hypothesis.
The questionnaire was prepared based on previous research at home and abroad, and was conducted for a total of two days from October 13 to October 14, 2023, targeting adults who used restaurants at five-star hotels in Seoul over the past three years. The survey was conducted on a panel of survey research organizations. A total of 7,796 copies were distributed, 365 copies were recovered, and 359 copies, excluding 6 copies from unfaithful respondents, were used in the final analysis.
After a comprehensive analysis, it was discerned that the marketing mix of the hotel restaurant revealed a noteworthy influence of factors such as price, location, promotion, staff, and process on self-congruity. Additionally, it was observed that both price and physical evidence emerged as significant determinants affecting overall satisfaction. The investigation unveiled that self-congruity significantly contributed to both satisfaction and loyalty, while satisfaction, in turn, demonstrated a significant influence on fostering customer loyalty.
The implications of this study are as follows:
First, hotel restaurants need to focus on marketing mix management.
Second, it is important for hotel restaurants to pay particular attention to customers' first experience and leave a good first impression when customers first use the hotel restaurant.
Next, it should be recognized that both the customer's experience and evaluation of the hotel restaurant are inevitably subjective in that customers recognize and evaluate the hotel restaurant based on their own personal experiences.
Finally, hotel restaurants should focus on providing positive emotional experiences in interactions with customers.
Keywords : hotel restaurant, marketing mix, self-congruity, Satisfaction, loyalty