The industrialized society has seen the abrupt changes in life styles, seeking not for wealth-oriented but for quality life itself. And under the situations of hard and various competition hotel has to find out the preferences and habits of customers ...
The industrialized society has seen the abrupt changes in life styles, seeking not for wealth-oriented but for quality life itself. And under the situations of hard and various competition hotel has to find out the preferences and habits of customers to project the marketing strategy.
But it is asserted that many of hotel packages have not met the customer's demand because of the slow-down activity in the research of hotel rooms and facilities.
Recently, hotel packages as destination of vacation are more and more popular with people and hotel packages are very important because they often have used as a strategic marketing tools during the low-demand period.
The purpose of this study is to provide basic clue of efficient marketing strategy for hotel package products by identifying the preferences of consumer according to statistical characteristics of population and habits.
For this, this study researched the practical condition of 2002' packages of 5 deluxe hotels in Gyeongju.
In the theoretic part, merchandising and sales promotion highlights are considered to be supported by the data of industry during the past few years in Korea.
In the empirical part, selected attributes are analyzed by correlation, factor analysis and ANOVA to find out which attributes are contributed to the consumers hotel selection according to their preference.
The results of analysis can be summarized as follows:
First, the purpose of travel of the sample is mainly leisure and recreation
Second, the sources of hotel selection information are from advertising, friends and relatives, and hotel brochure. The latter, however, is revealed to be relatively less effective.
Third, summer and winter are two major seasons of hotel package demand. However, many samples answer fall is other season they prefer.
Fourth, non-user group especially is interested in the hotel package product comparing to the experienced group.
Fifth, female is more interested in the atmospheric factor while male is more interested in the rooms division factor. This phenomenon can be explained by the fact that family convenience factor is important.
Sixth, younger age group of 20s - 30s has shown more preference to the hotel package product.
Seventh, the higher education level and the higher income level have shown more preference to the hotel package product.
In conclusion, the hotel choice decision attributes were influenced by statistical characteristics of population and travel habits. These results state that marketer of hotel has to find the target market when packages were projected to be made.
Consequently, to attract a number of customers, it is reasonable that marketing strategy of hotel packages should be specified on the various aspects such as price, services, package combination and so on.
It could be very useful to set a better marketing strategy throughout the comparing analysis of users and non-users of hotel package as well as analysis of summer and winter season.