This study aims and has a significance to provide the basic data that can be utilized for acquiring customers of public golf courses and marketing them, analyzing the structural relationships among selection attribute of public golf courses, relations...
This study aims and has a significance to provide the basic data that can be utilized for acquiring customers of public golf courses and marketing them, analyzing the structural relationships among selection attribute of public golf courses, relationship orientation, perceived value and intention to revisit.
As for research subjects, samples were collected from 409 visitors of public golf courses located in Gyeonggi Province, Gangwon Province and Jeju-do, officially registered in Public Golf Courses’ Association in 2017 for three months.
As for data processing method, an analysis was conducted, using SPSS 23.0 and AMOS 22.0. First, to analyze the general characteristics of the research subjects with a total of 409 copies of questionnaires, a frequency analysis was conducted. Next, excluding unreliable respondents and questionnaires with missing responses, a reliability analysis was conducted. Then, for the verification of the validity of variables, confirmatory factor analysis was conducted, and to check multicollinearity, a correlation analysis was conducted. Lastly, structural equation model (SEM) was conducted. The results drawn from this study based on the above research methods and results are summarized as follows:
First, it turned out that the selection attribute of public golf courses had a partially significant impact on the perceived value by each sub-factor. In the part of convenience and payment costs, it did not have a significant impact; however, in the part of courses and services, it had a significant impact on the perceived value. Thus, the marketers of public golf courses should be more active in their service management, course management and service part, and moreover, they should promote reasonable price and convenience and make an effort to enhance the level of the value of visitors.
Second, the selection attribute of public golf courses did not have a significant impact on relationship orientation in all four sub-factors. To make a long-term relationship after visiting out of simple curiosity and the visitor’s interest, the hands-on workers for public golf courses should make strong relationships through their own unique marketing, promotion or continuation and repetition.
Third, the visitors of public golf courses’ perceived value had a significant impact on relationship orientation. As visitors experience the same service in public golf courses as that in members only public golf courses with reasonable prices and convenient booking, they show positive reactions in the perceived value and relationship orientation as well. Thus, it is judged that hands-on workers in public golf courses should investigate and make an effort to maintain visitors’ long-term relationship orientation.
Fourth, the perceived value of the visitors of public golf courses had a significant impact on the intention to revisit. As the concept changed from golf for hospitality to that for leisure, if the perceived value increases, it is judged that the intention to revisit would have a positive impact on the visitors of public golf courses.
Fifth, the relationship orientation of the visitors of public golf courses had a significant impact on the intention to revisit. Thus, if satisfaction increases through the promotions or events of hands-on workers at public golf courses, the intention to recommend to others would increase, and it is judged that the possibility to maintain the long-term relationship orientation and the intention to revisit can increase.