On this present era of economics of the heart, culture and art is an essential strategy to impress the customers, and this has become one of only ways to promote the consumption. Also, due to increase of leisure time, there has been increases in desir...
On this present era of economics of the heart, culture and art is an essential strategy to impress the customers, and this has become one of only ways to promote the consumption. Also, due to increase of leisure time, there has been increases in desires to enjoy culture. In the 21st century, culture and art has become an important flow of society. On the other hand, the tourism has become a high-level industry that manages emotion and psychology which requires communication of a positive image. It also has a close relationship with culture and art. This research is to analyse the effects of culture marketing through in the tourism companies. For this, the market effect against consumers has been examined through demonstration analysis, and business and employee effect have been examined through document references, research results from related institutions and case research from small and medium enterprises. The market effect will analyse to see if positive brand attitude can be formed and perceived risk can be decreased by the perception of culture marketing, with contents of perceived risk and brand attitude occurring from the characteristics of tourism business and product/service. In addition, business effect and employee effect will examine to see if the culture marketing can improve and ease the tourism company's inner problems of advertising and promotion difficulties, high employment separation rate, and cultivating creativity for differentiation. The first research result shows that the perceptions of public culture support, commercial culture support and culture production has influences in forming positive brand attitude. The second result shows that the tourism companies' positive brand attitude can positively influence not only the consumer's image or characterist, but the evaluation on purchase received from the social group. Whereupon, it shows that it reduces the socio-psychological perceived risk. Third, the perception of culture production and commercial culture support can reduce the insecurities of the functional risks, which are directly related to the benefits brought by the product/service. In addition, perception on public culture support activities can reduce the socio-psychological risk by helping the consumers maintain high loyalty towards the company. Also, culture marketing, with it's unique activities, can improve the difficulties of advertising and promotion, help reduce separation rate through improvement of company's culture and relationship between employees, and it can help uplift creativity as a corporate culture that changes paradigm and respects diversity. The implications of this research result can be summarized as follows. First, it presents the requirements of culture support activities utilizing small and medium enterprise's art support matching fund. It is possible to stimulate the emotions of consumers and improve company image through marketing using culture contents and form positive brand attitude through exposure effects that are used as promotional issues. Also, through the company's culture product, the customer and the labor and management's relations can be improved by helping them interact in various meetings. Second, It emphasized the need for tourism companies to modify and make up for culture marketing activities currently performed. The tourism companies need the carefulness of selection and concentration in the marketing developments like selection of culture marketing type, suitable areas and utilization method depending on the goal that is to be achieved. Also as an alternative, it emphasized the necessity of grafting of various types of culture marketings. Third, together with culture marketing activities, it is necessary to inform these kinds of activities to the consumers. It can raise the consumer's awareness by providing press releases on the promotion item, active brand exposure using the objects of culture and art for support, and inviting the clients to the supporting culture and arts group's stage. Fourth, through the research, it was possible to confirm that the modern consumers are actually entering the culture-based economy. Hence, the tourism companies, that are in an inseparable relationship with culture and art, must develop marketing strategies that have recourse to the consumer's emotion and psychology than any other industry.