It is the purpose of this study to analyze how the factors that determine participation in leisure sports are affected based the lifestyle of the participants and through the analysis of the SWOT of those participants in the Changwon and Kyeongnam are...
It is the purpose of this study to analyze how the factors that determine participation in leisure sports are affected based the lifestyle of the participants and through the analysis of the SWOT of those participants in the Changwon and Kyeongnam area, and to establish a marketing mixer strategy through the positioning of Soccer, Tennis, Gate Ball, Badminton, and Bowling. In order to achieve the aforementioned objectives, the χ2, the One-Way ANOVA, the Scheffe, Pearson's Correlation Analysis, and the Multiple Regression Analysis were conducted, and the Positioning Map was drawn up through the utilization of MDS. From those analyses, the 4P's and the marketing mixer strategies were created. The conclusions obtained from this study were as follows;
1) The form of participation in leisure sports by event and the demographic characteristics.
Many of the participants in soccer were highly educated married professionals with relatively low monthly income that enjoyed playing sports, and the Tennis enjoyers had the similar characteristics as the Soccer lovers except for the fact that they had a higher monthly income and were more health conscious. In the case of Gate Ball, there were more female participants when compared to Soccer and Tennis and those participants had low monthly incomes, were not as highly educated, and participated in the sport 5 times per week. The Gate Ball participants ranked staying healthy as the primary reason for participation and considered that to be more important when compared to other sport participants. The gender ratio in Badminton participants were the most even out of all sports studied. The participants were mostly college graduates with steady jobs and there were many novice and veteran players participating. The gender ratio of the participants in Bowling were similar to the ratio of Gate Ball, but had lower female participants than Badminton. The enjoyers of Bowling had a equal ratio of married and single participants, mostly were highly educated, people of all ages participated, and the income and occupation varied, meaning there were many who participated individually.
2) The SWOT of each sport's participants, lifestyles, and demand determining factors.
According to the SWOT, Soccer, Tennis, Badminton, and Bowling all had the best environment for opportunities, while Gate Ball had the most vulnerable environment. Also, the common things about the participants were, all of the participants possessed a healthy lifestyle, an accomplishing lifestyle and a friendly lifestyle. The demand of all the sports were most affected by the sport equipments and products, Soccer and Tennis were affected by promotion, price determined Gate Ball participation, and the location was the key in Badminton and Bowling participation.
3) The relationship amongst the SWOT, lifestyle, and the demand determination factor.
The strong point of Soccer had the most effect on environment, while personality, pessimism, adventure, health, and opportunity also had effects. Tennis' strong points also had high effects, but lower than that of Soccer, and hedonism, trends, health, familiarity, pessimism were also affecting factors. The strong point of Gate Ball's effect was higher than that of Soccer, and accomplishment, trends, familarity, and personality lifestyles also showed relations. The affect of the strong point of Bowling were similar to the Gate Ball's, and the lifestyles of personality, hedonism, trends, and familarity also had effects.
4) The multidimensional standard and the marketing mix strategies for each leisure sport.
The participants of Soccer, Tennis, Gate Ball, Badminton, and Bowling considered Tennis and Soccer to be similar and also thought that Badminton and Bowling to be in the similar category. Gate Ball was least recognized out of all the events and the 5 sports were categorized into 3 groups. Also, the categorization through the analysis of the participants' lifestyles showed the need to categorize promotion into personality, hedonism, and trends lifestyles, the price into accomplishment and personality lifestyles, and the location into pessimism, healthy, familarity, trends, and opportunity lifestyles. It is the most effective to separate the product consumers into adventure, health, opportunity, hedonism, trends, pessimism, accomplishments, and personality lifestyles, and the marketing strategies using the products deemed to have the largest market.
With the marketing mix strategy that considers the surroundings, in Soccer, the strong-weak point strategy need to be considered when looking at the location and promotion, only the strong points for prices, and strong point-opportunity-threat strategies should be utilized when looking at the products. In the case of Tennis, only the strong points be considered with the environment, the strong point-opportunity-threat strategies for locations, and strong point-opportunity strategies for the products. With Gate Ball, the strong point-opportunity strategies for promotion, only the threat strategies in prices, only the strong point strategies in locations, and only the opportunity strategies in products should be considered. The study of Badminton should consider strong point-weak point strategy for promotion, the strong point-weak point-opportunity strategy in location, and weak point-strong point strategies for products. In Bowling's case, the strong point-weak point strategies in promotion, only the threat strategies in price, and the opportunity-threat strategies in products are needed.