To identify the casual relationship among the service marketing mix of golf country club and brand equity, 800 golfers whom have played golf in private and public golf courses in Korea were selected as samples by using convenience sampling method. Tot...
To identify the casual relationship among the service marketing mix of golf country club and brand equity, 800 golfers whom have played golf in private and public golf courses in Korea were selected as samples by using convenience sampling method. Total of 576 questionnaires were used in the final data analysis and to verify the purpose and hypothesis of research, independent samples t-test, one-way ANOVA, multiple regression analysis and path analysis were used. And the result is as follows.
First, the differences of service marketing mix according to demographic feature, 'place' factor showed difference according to 'sex' and 'marital status.' 'Promotion' factor showed difference according to 'age', 'product' factor showed difference according to 'job' and 'product' factor and 'place' factor showed differences according to 'earning', 'residential area', and 'number of round per year.' 'Promotion' factor and 'Price' factor showed difference according to 'golf experience year.' And 'product' factor and 'price' factor showed differences according to 'information acquisition route' and 'purpose of visit.'
Second, the differences of brand equity according to demographic feature, 'brand recognition' factor showed difference according to 'marital status' and 'number of round per yea,' and 'brand recognition' and 'brand quality' factors showed differences according to 'level of education' and 'purpose of visit.' Also 'brand image', and 'recognition' factors showed differences according to 'information axquisitio route.' However, 'sex', 'age', 'job', 'earning', 'golf experience year' and 'handicap' showed no differences within groups.
Third, the sub-factors of service marketing mix, 'place' and 'promotion' had correlation with the sun-factors of brand equity.
Fourth, the sun-factors of service market mix, 'place' and 'promotion' had correlation with brand image. 'Promotion' factor had an effect on brand image and 'promotion', 'place' and 'product' factors affected on brand quality.
Base on the result of the sub-factor of service marketing mix and brand equity, would like to suggest research proposal about the casual relationship among the service marketing mix of golf course and brand equity in the future.
First, sample of this research was only collected in golf courses and practice ranges in Seoul, Gyeong-ki, and Incheon area. Therefore, it's impractical to stretch the meaning of the result to nation wide. The scale of research should be widen in later research to generalize the results to nation wide.
Second, service marketing mix scale and sub-factors of brand equity should be suggested, since limited 4Ps of golf course service marketing were used to verify and analyze the casual relationship among the service marketing mix of golf course and also the sub-factors of brand equity were limited to image, recognition and quality of brand.