Today’s professional sports industry is growing steadily, continuing to achieve development and success. In the meantime, enterprises are interested in getting economic benefits using the professional sports industry as a means of the promotion of m...
Today’s professional sports industry is growing steadily, continuing to achieve development and success. In the meantime, enterprises are interested in getting economic benefits using the professional sports industry as a means of the promotion of marketing, and of them, the professional baseball industry records most spectators of the most professional sports events, so it is considered the most attractive means of the promotion of marketing for enterprises.
This study aims to investigate and analyze the effects of sports spectator factors of professional baseball of the domestic professional sports events on team image and revisit intention and provide persons concerned with the team and the persons in charge of marketing with materials for the team’s interest and development strategy. It will analyze sports spectator factors (stadium factor, game condition factor, spectating cost factor and spectating promotion factor), investigate and reveal their relationship of influence on team image and revisit intention and verify if team image has a mediating role in the relationship between sports spectator factors and revisit intention.
As a sample for the verification of hypothesis, a survey was conducted with 280 male and female spectators residing in Seoul and Gyeonggi, who have experience of visiting a sports stadium at least once. 280 copies of the questionnaire were distributed in total, and excluding 19 copies with inconsistent responses, 261 copies were used in an empirical analysis.
The results of the analysis verified in this study are summarized as follows: First, as a result of a multiple regression analysis in order to examine the relationship between four sports spectating factors and revisit intention, it turned out that all four sports spectating factors (stadium factor, game condition factor, spectating cost factor and spectating promotion factor) have positive effects on revisit intention.
Second, as a result of a multiple regression analysis in order to examine the relationship between four sports spectating factors and team image, it turned out that all four factors (stadium factor, game condition factor, spectating cost factor and spectating promotion factor) have positive effects on team image.
Third, in the relationship between four sports spectating factors and revisit intention, it turned out that the team image has a mediating role. Also, it was found that it partially mediates game condition factor and spectating promotion factor and directly mediates stadium factor and spectating cost factor.
These research results will be actively used as a means of marketing promotion, so that they will greatly help the persons concerned with the team and the persons in charge of marketing establish the team’s interest and development strategy by understanding spectating factors that make spectators have a positive team image and revisit intention.