Cruise brand experience: functional and wellness value creation in tourism business
- Title
- Cruise brand experience: functional and wellness value creation in tourism business
- Author
- 안지선
- Keywords
- Customer satisfaction; Behavioral intention; Cruise brand experience; Functional value; Service expertise; Wellness value
- Issue Date
- 2019-05
- Publisher
- EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
- Citation
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT, v. 31, no. 5, page. 2205-2223
- Abstract
- Purpose Experience and value creation have become integral themes for tourism service providers. This study aims to understand the role of different types of experiences in formulating customers' perceived value. Studies on this area are scarce, especially in the cruise industry.
Design/methodology/approach A research model that includes two value variables, namely, functional and wellness values, and four cruise brand experience variables, namely, sensory, affective, behavioral and intellectual factors, was tested through partial least-squares (PLS) structural equation modeling approach. A total of 389 usable cruise customer responses were obtained and analyzed using SmartPLS software.
Findings Results revealed the relative effects of sensory, affective, behavioral and intellectual factors on perceived functional and wellness values. The positive impact of perceived value on customer satisfaction and behavioral intention and the moderating role of service expertise in the relationship between cruise experience and perceived value were examined.
Research limitations/implications Future research can examine how types of leisure facilities (e.g. casinos, restaurants, bars and shows), cultural differences (e.g. Eastern and Western) and customers' travel characteristics (e.g. visiting purpose and companions) may influence the relationships between cruise brand experience and perceived value.
Practical implications From a practical point, the relationships among multidimensional cruise brand experience, functional and wellness values, customer satisfaction, revisit intention and service expertise provide a clue on how cruise brands can enhance customers' perceived value to retain current customers.
Originality/value This study contributes to literature by providing a theoretical framework and empirical evidence for predicting and explaining cruise customers' behavior. From a managerial perspective, this study identified critical factors that are essential to value creation and discussed the implications of predictive factors on developing marketing strategies that enhance customers' positive attitude and behavior toward the cruise brand.
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- https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJCHM-06-2018-0527/full/htmlhttps://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/160713
- ISSN
- 0959-6119; 1757-1049
- DOI
- 10.1108/IJCHM-06-2018-0527
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