Thanks to the growth of global business, MICE has become the highlighted industry in the world as a tourism of fusion and convergence because it has been contributing to create various jobs, value added and make up for a balance of payments deficit ...
Thanks to the growth of global business, MICE has become the highlighted industry in the world as a tourism of fusion and convergence because it has been contributing to create various jobs, value added and make up for a balance of payments deficit even in the recent worsening global economy. The MICE industry is connected with various tourists industries, such as conference facilities, accommodation, food and beverages, transportation, culture, entertainment, shopping etc. Therefore, it has economic powerful effects as well as politic, social and cultural effects, including the increased international influence, the promotional effects of a host city, the promotion of international friendship and the impression of the host city's images. In addition, the recent participants who attended MICE have a trend not only to take part in the conference, but also to enjoy their holiday. It means that the union of business tour and sightseeing trip can be a potential great market which is able to maximize added value. Therefore, in this today, the connected tour program, which can influence an increase in participants' expenditure because of the extended Korean wave and their increased interest in Korea, has recognized as an valuable industry. with considering this situation, the various MICE tour programs including the specific characteristics of Korean wave culture contents can affect the participants' anticipation and satisfaction from at the attracting phase.
This study has thought that Korean wave culture content is one of the Korean global brands and MICE is future business strategies because it has the value of the business. Therefore, the study has focused on how the satisfaction of Korean wave culture content linked with tour programs has influenced the image of Korean MICE image and the further behaviour intention of participants as well as on drawing academical and practical consequences from this project.
To achieve the aims of this study, first reviewing previous researches which are related with this project, then establishing survey items and making up questionnaire. The research data has been collected from foreign people who participated in Korean MICE and experienced performing arts and/or movie festival and/or music and/or culinary experience and/or beauty program via on/off self administration method.
The outcome of the study is as follows:
First, the satisfaction of Korean wave content linked with tour programs affected the image of Korean MICE in a positive way. The degree of the effect on the image was beauty(0.46), culinary experience(0.39), performing arts(0.25) in order and movie festival and music were rejected. Also, the degree of the effects on the formation of emotional image was movie(0.38), performing arts(0.27), beauty(0.26) in order and music and culinary experience were rejected.
Second, the satisfaction of Korean wave culture content linked with tour program was affected the further behaviour intention of participants in a positive way. The degree of the effect on the behaviour intention of participants was beauty(0.46), performing arts(0.30) in order and movie, music and culinary experience were rejected.
Third, it is indicated that the image of MICE have a positive effect on the further behaviour intention of participants. The degree of its effect on the further behaviour intention of participants was cognitive image(0.54) and emotional image(0.40) in order.
Fourth, it was seen that the satisfaction of the Korean wave culture content linked with tour program and the image of Korean MICE affected the further behaviour intention of participants in a positive way.
Based on the above consequences , this study draws some suggestions as follows:
First, the development of movie and music program is required to improve the cognitive image among the image of the Korean MICE, and the music and culinary experience are required to improve the emotional image of the Korean MICE.
Second, to improve the behaviour intention of participants, the special programs of movie, music and culinary experience targeting at foreign people should be invented. The reason is that based on empirical analysis, only performance arts and beauty program attracted participants to reattain the programs or recommend the programs to their friends or relatives.
Consequently, more attractive and different methods are required to attract them.
Third, active promotion strategy and schemes for Korean MICE are required. In terms of the feature of the population statistics, most of respondents are Asian even though the international events were held. It means that attracting participants of various nationalities and interchange between them are rarely happened. Therefore, the feature of MICE is to identify the characteristic of each nationality and to put efforts into interchanging between various countries and attracting various nationalities.
Fourth, the familiar and nature promotion strategy is required via the word of mouth method. In terms of participants' motives, most participants got the information of the linked tour programs via their friends or relatives (31.5%) and was followed by the homepage or organizer's guide(28.5%), which indicates the importance of the power of word of mouth method. Therefore, more detailed marketing programs are required to advertize the linked tour programs via the familiar and nature methods.
Fifth, the tour programs linked with movie and music should be considerably invested in. According to the preference of Korean wave culture content linked with tour programs, movie and musical programs made up about 60%(32.3% and 27.8% respectively). It means that these linked programs is expected to become a new profit model. Therefore, more detailed business model project should be required.
This study has confirmed the influence of Korean wave culture contents on the MICE industry by reviewing the effects of the satisfaction of Korean wave culture contents linked with tour programs on the image of Korean MICE and the further behaviour intention of participants. In addition, based on the its result, the study identified and suggested what Korean wave tour programs should be invested in. Especially, It is the first study in terms of the research about the relationship between the image of Korean MICE and Korean wave culture linked tour programs, so it is expected that this study will contribute to improve this field in a academical and practical way.