This research is mainly focused on the correlation among the LOHAS image, perceived service quality, perceived value, customer satisfaction and loyalty.
The primary purpose of the study is to identify factors that influence perceived service quality, ...
This research is mainly focused on the correlation among the LOHAS image, perceived service quality, perceived value, customer satisfaction and loyalty.
The primary purpose of the study is to identify factors that influence perceived service quality, perceived value, customer satisfaction and loyalty based on the concept and theoretical background of LOHAS image, perceived service quality, perceived value, customer satisfaction and loyalty. In addition, I have sought to find out how the LOHAS image from a variety of separate perspectives including the environment of a hotel restaurant, sustainability of customer support, eco-friendliness and sustainable material use is correlated and/or causated with perceived service quality, value, customer and loyalty. The theoretical models that have been used in this research include the Customer Loyalty(repurchase intention, spontaneous and positive word-of-mouth intention) by Oliver(1980), the correlation model between perceived service quality and service value by Anderson and others(1994), the model regarding satisfaction and experience by Bolton and Drew, a research into corporate image by Olson(1972), Weiner’s model established together with Folkes(1988) and Weiner(1985) that explains the corporate image as a medium to determine customer’s perception of quality, value and satisfaction, and the model of Andreassen and Lindestad(1988). With the corporate image in those models replaced by the LOHAS image, I conducted a research into the correlations among the image of LOHAS hotel restaurant, perceived service quality, perceived value, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. This research is meaningful in that it horizontally expands the model of Andreassen and Lindestad(1988), which is usually applied to general manufacturing firms, to test the hypothesis. During the investigation design and empirical analysis step, hypothesis-testing and application of models were analyzed(performed) to identify correlations among LOHAS hotel restaurant, perceived service quality, perceived value, customer satisfaction and loyalty. For this goal, I conducted a survey among luxury hotel restaurant customers in Seoul, Busan, Daegu, and Kyungju area. Questionnaires were distributed to 400 luxury hotel restaurant customers in Seoul on September 15-30, 2007, among which 363 samples were collected to be used in the research. the summary of this research is as follows. First, the factors of hotel restaurant environment as the image of LOHAS, sustainability of customers, eco-friendliness, and sustainable material use turned proved to have positive impacts on impacts to influence perceived service quality. Second, the factors of hotel restaurant environment as the image of LOHAS, sustainability of customers, eco-friendliness, and sustainable material use turned out to have positively influence perceived value. Third, the factor of hotel restaurant environment as the image of LOHAS, sustainability of customers, eco-friendliness, and sustainable material use were prove to be positively (+) correlated with customer satisfaction. Fourth, the factors of hotel restaurant environment as the image of LOHAS, sustainability of customers, eco-friendliness, and sustainable material use turned out to be positively (+) correlated with customer loyalty. Fifth, the factor of perceived value turned out to be positively (+) correlated with the service quality. Sixth, the factor of perceived service quality turned out to be positively (+) correlated with customer satisfaction. Seventh, the factor of perceived value turned out to be positively (+) correlated with customer satisfaction. Eighth, the factor of customer satisfaction turned out to be positively (+) correlated with customer loyalty. Ninth, the factor of perceived value turned out to be positively (+) correlated with customer loyalty. Tenth, as a result of tracing the causality through direct and indirect impacts of LOHAS image, perceived service quality, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty, the study finds that LOHAS image has the strongest positive correlation against perceived service, and customer loyalty through customer satisfaction.
And the correlation of the LOHAS image against perceived value and customer satisfaction was found to be the second strongest one, followed by the correlation of LOHA image against service quality through perceived value.