The tourism is increasingly seen as a significant role with the growth in household income, the need to enjoy leisure lifestyle and the tendency to improve the quality of life.
As a result, the demands of experienced travelers are becoming more diver...
The tourism is increasingly seen as a significant role with the growth in household income, the need to enjoy leisure lifestyle and the tendency to improve the quality of life.
As a result, the demands of experienced travelers are becoming more diverse and distinctive. On this account, they want to have an exceptional service to meet their own customized needs compared to the past.
Jeju Island has been one of the most popular tourist attractions among travelers. In order to become more attractive tourist destination, specific and specialized research and development are required to satisfy the growing needs of tourists.
Therefore, this study will examine how the lifestyle type affects visitor’s motivation, destination selection attributes and satisfaction, and provide important basic data on marketing strategies to boost Jeju island’s tourism business based on the results of analysis. In order to achieve this research objective, a cluster analysis was performed to segment the lifestyle and correlation analysis was conducted to identify the relationship between measurement items. To this end, the survey papers were distributed directly to visitors returning from their trip at Jeju international Airport and Gimpo international airport each. Also, hypotheses were verified by the collected data through the SPSS 25.0 statistical program using Factor Analysis, Reliability Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Cross tabulation analysis, and one-way ANOVA.
First, factors were extracted through exploratory factor analysis, and hierarchical cluster analysis was performed to estimate the three clusters. In terms of a sort of hierarchical cluster analysis, we classified it into three cluster using K-means clustering analysis. Each cluster showed significant differences in tourist motivation and satisfaction, and we could obtain the conclusion that each cluster has distinct characteristics depending on its lifestyle.
The results of this study are summarized as follows. Out of the total 239, the first group consisted of 110 members, the second group of 56 members, and the third group of 73 members. Cluster 1 is moderate in change and trend, and family-centered tendencies are neither very active nor passive, and this moderate group get along well with any groups, and those who are unmarried tend to be seen more than married in any group. Cluster 2 is an active group in every aspect, with its most active change, trend, sociality and very loyal to the family. Both the unmarried and the married are occupying Cluster 2 in similar numbers. Cluster 3 is a passive family-centered group that shows a passive and closed tendency in change, socialization, and pursuit of fashion, but considers family members important, and is more likely to be married than unmarried who care about their families. Among these three clusters, the active group had the largest figures of all factors, showing a significant difference.
In this study, market segmentation according to lifestyle is a variable that can be used to understand the psychology and attitudes of tourists in their decisions and behaviors. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to classify Jeju island tourists into subdivided clusters based on their lifestyle through cluster analysis and to examine the differences in tourism motivation, destination selection attribute, satisfaction by subdivided clusters.
The subdivided markets by lifestyle were verified by the reasonable result obtained in attempts to achieve the research objective and they are evidently characterized by figuring out the differences in visitor's motivation, destination selection attributes, satisfaction and the respective lifestyle of the subdivided markets.
In addition, using these categorized tourists' characteristics, this study aims to provide a basic information for promotional strategies and to ensure it remaions desirable and competitive as a destination to drive demand for travel into Jeju island.