In modern society, the tourism made change of the quality of tourists and diversified demand owing to high income and education level, developed transportation and communication media and better circumstances.
Despite of such changes and diversificati...
In modern society, the tourism made change of the quality of tourists and diversified demand owing to high income and education level, developed transportation and communication media and better circumstances.
Despite of such changes and diversification, travel agents adhered to convenient supply of travel products. The travel market had a problem of oversupply because of copying of other company's products, sales competition of very much inexpensive products and excessive competition by dumping, so that the quality of products were lowered to let travel agents give tourists various kinds of risk factors together with features of travel products.
The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of perceived risks upon buying behavior and the effects of tourist characteristic property as well as travel products upon relations between perceived risks and buying behavior, and to suggest reduction of perceived risks and give strategical values to do marketing for tourism business.
This study conducted empirical test for three weeks from August 29, 2005 to September 18, 2005. The subjects were the ones who were 20 years old or more. And, the study made use of 293 copies in total. The SPSS 10.0 for Windows program was used to investigate material.
The findings were as follows :
Firstly, perceived risks had negative influence upon buying behavior to show functional risk the most: On the other hand, monetary risks had not much influence.
Secondly, the confidence and the innovation that were characteristic properties of tourists at relation between perceived risks and buying intention had not much influence.
Thirdly, the price and the brand loyalty that were characteristic properties of travel products at relation between perceived risks and buying intention showed adjusting effects : In other words, the brand loyalty had not much influence, while the price had great influence. Therefore, travel agents might reduce perceived risks to let tourists buy travel products by selling the products considering characteristics of the products rather than individual characteristics of tourists.
This study examined effects by using characteristic properties of tourists and travel products at relation between perceived risks and buying behavior of tourists.
The study suggested supplementation to overcome some limitations as follows :
Firstly, tourists thought much of information to reduce perceived risks of travel products. Precedent researches showed that the information played an important role in reducing perceived risks. The study, however, regarded only characteristic properties of tourists and travel products as factors having influence upon perceived risks and buying behavior.
Secondly, precedent researches showed that the experience in the past reduced perceived risks of travel products. In this study, the contents concerning experience were thought to be different between having experience and having no experience, and level of perceived risks might vary depending upon satisfaction on the experience in the past and buying frequency. But, the study did not research the experience enough.
Thirdly, Internet was widely used to raise buying of travel products on Internet. This study examined buying regardless online and offline through travel agents, and did not investigate online buying tourists despite of risk factors of online buying of tourists.
Fourthly, adjusting effects of characteristic properties of tourists as well as travel products at relation between perceived risks and buying intention were very much flexible, so that they could not be generally applied. In other words, the study could not reflect such changes.
Lastly, the study selected samples not from various levels but from limited levels. Therefore, samples should be gotten from more places and various levels to generalize findings and to apply various kinds of research methods.
Researches and efforts were demanded continuously based on the findings and the contents above to overcome limitations and to get meaningful outcome and to find diversified and developing actions.