The Effects of Service Marketing Mix in the Expressway Rest Area Business on Customer Satisfaction and Revisit Intention
This study investigated the effects of service marketing mix and service quality in the expressway rest area business perceived b...
The Effects of Service Marketing Mix in the Expressway Rest Area Business on Customer Satisfaction and Revisit Intention
This study investigated the effects of service marketing mix and service quality in the expressway rest area business perceived by customers on their satisfaction and revisit intention. Specifically, the study focused on the impact of perceived performance of rest area business entity and customers' disconfirmation on customers' satisfaction.
A survey was conducted to collect the data with prepared questionnaires for 270 expressway rest area customers. A total of 248 questionnaires were actually collected and 240 proper questionnaires were finally used for the analyses.
Several frequency analyses and crosstabulation analyses were performed to examine the customers' patterns of using rest areas and their satisfaction levels. Also, a series of regression analyses were employed to explore the influencing variables and outcome variables of customers' satisfaction. In addition, path analyses were used to test the various relationship with the customers' satisfaction. The validity and reliability of the constructs and measures were secured with relevant factor analyses and alpha coefficient reliability analyses.
The empirical results of established hypotheses are as follows:
1. Of the service marketing mix, only the' factors related to employees were significantly related to the customers' satisfaction. Of the customers' perception of management skills, only the product factors were significantly related to the customers' satisfaction, which was different from the case of the service marketing mix. The results indicate that satisfaction is evaluative feeling on the customers' part which can be incurred by the service from the employees. On the other hand, management effectiveness can be increased by product variety and the development and supply of unique products.
2. Of the service quality dimensions, only the confirmity dimension is found to be significantly related to the customers' satisfaction. In addition the service quality dimensions affected the customers' satisfaction more significantly than management abilities.
3. Performance perception was significantly related to the customers' satisfaction. Except disconfirmation based on difference in the attribute scores between expectation and performance, disconfirmations based on rival rest areas and normative standards were found to affect satisfaction.
4. The perception of management abilities was found to affect the customers' satisfaction, which in turn influenced their revisit intention.
In sum, this research appears to explain the customers' satisfaction and revisit intention of the expressway rest area. This research also offers several implications for expressway rest area management and academics in service marketing areas.