• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.455-477
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to develop the service scales of festival quality. We derived five constituent factors, service quality measures of local festivals through the extensive literature review in Previous studies. We named these qualities "COKITQUAL" that is consist of Convenience, Information, Kindness, Operation, Corporeity. We conducted the empirical analysis for the participants in "Hwacheon Sancheoneo Festival" to verify the "COKITQUAL". As the result, Information, Kindness, Operation affected positively on Festival Satisfaction among all SERVQUALs. However, Convenience and Corporeity did not positively affected on the dependent variable. And then, Festival Satisfaction positively affected on on Behavior Intention. This study developed the Service quality concerned with local festivals which is crucial fundamentals to quantify Festival SERVQUAL through empirical study. The proper applications and usage of these newly introduced local festival qualities enable to acquire the sustainable competitive advantage in local festival.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.9
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• pp.174-184
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• 2006

This study purposed to contribute to systematic management of service quality of festival by developing scale of service quality. According to the result of this study, scale of service quality in festival was developed, which are composed of 26 measuring items in 8 factors. this study suggests major factors(program quality, experience, interaction as well as tangibles, agreeability, responsiveness, access, reliability related to SERVQUAL). This study has an academic meaning in that it developed a scale of service quality suitable to festival and a practical meaning that it provided foundation of customer satisfaction management.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.403-410
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to analyze the festival tourists for "Yeoju Ogoknaru Festival". There is also effects analysis of service quality on perceived satisfaction for behavioral intention. This study used questionnaires to Yeoju Ogoknaru Festival festival participant, adopted the designated random sampling in the active site, a total of 177 valid questionnaires. The data were descriptive statistics and Structure Equation modeling analysis. This study found that; Physical service factor was not effect on tourist satisfaction and positive word of mouth. Programme service and Personal service quality directly positive effect on perceived satisfaction and WOM. The programme service variable of the festival had the greatest impact on overall satisfaction of festival tourists. The more satisfied tourists are with the festival the more likely they are to recommend in subsequent festivals. Based on these results, study can offer some valuable insights for festival planners and organizers to better manage their festival programme and volunteer service to such an extent that the experiences of festival visitors are maximized, perceived satisfactions are enhanced, and revisits to future festivals facilitated.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.432-437
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• 2010

The purpose of this research is to find out how festival servicescape and human service impact the participant's emotional response and behavioral intention in terms of participants as consumers. The servicescape of festival indicated 4 common factors, named cleanliness, convenience, suitability and attravtiveness. As a result of analysis, it indicated that cleanliness and convenience from among the servicescape of festival variables are positively on positive emotion, negatively on negative emotion. And it was analyzed that all the variables of human service influence significantly on emotional response. Especially, it showed that expertise of human service variables influence on positive emotion the most, influence significantly on negative emotion. The result of relationship on behavioral intention indicated that the convenience factor of festival servicescape and expertise factor of human service influence significantly. Therefore, to operate successful festival, festival organizer should plan and manage the festival based on factors which comprises festival servicescape and human service.

• Korea Science and Art Forum
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• v.26
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• pp.221-230
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• 2016

This paper is focused on the service quality of Buan Masil Festival. The objectives of the research were to explore whether or not the service quality of local festival affects overall satisfaction and revisit intention Data were collected using self-administered questionnaires at the 4th Buan Masil Festival on May 6-8, 2015. A total of 373 valid samples were used for the analysis. The results of the study indicate that service quality of program, souvenir, and facility lead to visitors' satisfaction, and visitors' satisfaction influenced revisit intention. The results concludes with a discussion of implication for future research.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.326-335
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• 2012

The purpose of this study id to identify service quality of national stone culture festival, to find relationship service quality to festival satisfaction and after behavioral intention of festival participants. To achieve the purpose of this study, 13 elements of service quality was chosen through previous literature study. And 3 factors were extracted by 1st factor analysis, these are hardware, software, and humanware factor. And second factor analysis was performed to identify validity and reliability these factors. And 5th hypothesis was established and adopted in three hypothesis. That is Hardware service quality factor have a influence to festival satisfaction of participants, festival satisfaction of participants have a influence to revisitation and recommendation intention. This paper indicates that results of this study is useful to regional festival planning to settle down as a sustainable events, necessary to retain service quality and satisfaction as a precedent condition.

• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.97 no.3
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• pp.340-347
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• 2008

This study investigates the conceptional structure between festival service quality, visitor's satisfaction, loyalty and festival effects in the Juwangsan Sudalrae mountainous local festival. In order to analyze the structural equation model the paper employed the LISREL (linear structural relationships) approach, covariance structural equation model. Data of 445 visitors were collected from the Juwangsan Sudalrae festival in 2008. Research findings showed that experience, facility and service are positively related to visitors' satisfaction. In addition, visitors' satisfaction is related to loyalty and festival effects. One of the major research findings is that the festival service most affects visitors' satisfaction. This implies that the host of mountainous local festival must put great emphasis on organizing hospitality and festival information. This will lead the festival to a great success and ultimately bring positive impacts to the mountainous residents.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.315-330
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• 2005

The primary purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between service quality, Place attachment and destination loyalty in the local festival field. Sampling was conducted at the Flower Blossom Festival in Juju, 2004. Data were collected through on-site surveys by face-to-face interview for three days-between April 4th and April 6th. Data analyses were carried out by using structural equation model. Two hypotheses were tested to represent the relationships between exogenous and endogenous variables. The exogenous variable selected for this study is service quality Endogenous variables are place attachment and destination loyalty. The findings provided a supported structural model of the relationships between service quality, place attachment and loyalty. Festival visitors who perceive high service quality tend to have high place attachment that leads to the intention to revisit and positive word-of-mouth to others. The results of this study suggest that festival managers need to understand visitors' perception of service quality, place attachment in order to better predict their destination loyalty.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.391-402
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• 2010

The purposes of this study are to identify the relationships between service quality, perceived value, satisfaction, and loyalty for IhoTewoo festival through a structural equation model. This study was conducted by means of survey questionnaire of festival visitors with 348 responses. The main results of the study are as follows. First, the exploratory factor analysis with principal component method of the 19 service quality items identified four underlying domains. These dimensions were labelled: (1) 'program', (2) 'informational service', (3) 'festival area', and (4) 'food'. Second, service quality has a significantly positive effect on perceived value, satisfaction, and loyalty. Third, Perceived value has a significantly positive effect on satisfaction. Fourth, both perceived value and satisfaction have significantly positive effects on loyalty. Fifth, Although the direct effect of service quality on customer loyalty was evident, it was also found that the indirect effects of service quality through perceived value and/or overall satisfaction were stronger. Thus, customer loyalty will be stronger when service quality is matched with perceived value and/or overall satisfaction, meaning that multiple factors play a significant role in determining customer loyalty.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.460-470
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• 2010

This study was designed to analyze the impacts of the Festival's service quality to identify influence of Festival visitor's attitude and behavior. The result of the verification are follows : Fist festival's perceived service quality affecting potential visitors' attitude. Second potential visitors' attitude affect their behavior. This finding is contribute to the understanding of festival attendee behavior, to give useful suggestion to festival's effective development and management. Quality of festival the research which precedes in the object measuring element in the center escape. Integral part the service quality of festival escape, service quality integral part of at that resultant festival 5 dimensions became escape. This findings contribute to the understanding of festival attendee behavior, providing researchers and practitioners with insights into how effectively to design a festival.