This study examined to search in participants who attend in regional festival practically, not a professional planners, which human service quality is the most important to festival employees that communicate customer most directly. Festival employees...
This study examined to search in participants who attend in regional festival practically, not a professional planners, which human service quality is the most important to festival employees that communicate customer most directly. Festival employees should keep in mind what they can satisfy and encourage participant in festival event. It is integral duty like different service industry that festival employee provides good human service to participants respectively. More over if they offer good quality of service that is fit in characteristic of only festival, participant's satisfaction and intend to re-attend to festival may rise constantly.
Therefore this study wants to highlight the importance of human quality of service factor, which has been recognized less than physical and system quality in festival industry. In addition, this study shows the relation between human service quality and participant's behavioral intentions.
To achieve this purpose, the hypothesis which based on the empirical study on the human service quality of festival, the customer satisfaction and the participants' behavioral intentions, surveyed the questions which 275 participants answered.
The exploratory factor analysis, multiple regression analysis and one way analysis of variance was used to test the hypothesis of study with collected data via data coding.
The following is the summary on the result of this study.
First, as a result of factor analysis on the basis of PZB's SERVQUAL criteria, 5 factors of the human service quality of festival were extracted as follows ; professionalism, understanding the customer, reliability, courtesy, responsiveness.
Second, this study shows the influential relations between the participant's satisfaction and participants' behavioral intentions as well as between the human quality of service factors and behavioral intentions, re-attended intention and recommend intention. According to results, participants rate professionalism, responsiveness, courtesy highly to considerate re-attended and recommend intention.
Third, in analysis of difference of participant's festival experience, the first-attended participants aware the importance of human quality of service factors and behavioral intentions more significantly. Also the participants from outside of the region recognize the human quality of service more importantly.
Therefore, the employees of festival and managers should realize the importance of human resources and keep education steadily.
In the future study, we will have to be achieved research about various participants including foreigner with long-termer data. That is the reason why festivals such as Boryeong Mud Festival and Hampyeng Butterfly Festival is getting more foreign participants. However we also need study about other consequences of participant which do not take up in this study.