The concept of specialization explains the phenomenon that socio-psychological characteristics related to the leisure and recreation activities differ in terms of the levels of participants' involvement, skill and expense. The usefulness of this conce...
The concept of specialization explains the phenomenon that socio-psychological characteristics related to the leisure and recreation activities differ in terms of the levels of participants' involvement, skill and expense. The usefulness of this concept, advocated by Bryan in 1977, has been widely recognized as important in many Euro-American contries over twenty years while few study has been made yet of this concept in Korea. Recently there has been an increasing population who go abroad to experience outbound golf tour. However, few research has tried to understand the outbount golf tour market. This study attempts to apply this concept of specializtion to Outbound golf tourists.
The purpose of this study are (1) to recognize outboud golf tourists' chracteristics using the concept of specialization, (2) to understand their their behavior by level of specialization, and (3) to suggest the directions of outbound golf tour marketing strategies.
Before the main survey pre-surveys were performed using qustionaire. The main survey was performed in different golf range all the country. The subjects used in this study consisted of 370 golfers who experience outbound golf tour more than once. Statistical treatment used were factor analysis, Anova.
Based on the levels of specialization, outbound golf tourists were segmented into tree groups - beginners(n=123), intermediates(n=124), and experts(n=375).
The result of hyphothetical test showed lower level of group differ from higher level of group. According to the level of specialization (1) there are different attitudes toward outbound golf tour, (2) there are different choices of destination, (3) there are different motivation of outbound golf tour, and (4) there are demographical differences.
An obvious implication of this study is that the concept of specialization could be used to effectively segment outbound golf tour maket. Based on this implication, it is suggeted each tour agency and golf resort shoul develop differentiated marketing strategies according to segmented markets.