• Journal of Applied Tourism Food and Beverage Management and Research
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.43-69
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• 2005

Generally, brand is the title for discriminating their own goods and service from other competitive company, brand-image means customer's good and bad affection or loyalty the brand of specific company. Customers often choose the goods according to the value of goods brand. In terms of this viewpoint, the value of company's brand is very important factor to the company's success. Brand-image also effects customers on selling company's goods. Specially, to the hotel business that should ensure lots of customer for a long period with the interest and credit of customers, its brand-image is more significant. What the image is looked upon as a important factor in marketing is due to the difficulty of discrimination against goods standardized in price and quality. Therefore, the company's image acts as a more important marketing factor in the high industrial society. Also it means a lot to the customer's purchasing behavior. When the company's brand-image is recognized or discriminated, customer's memory is longer and customer's reliability is raised than other company's advertisement and public information. Nowadays, most of hotels are perceiving the importance on their own brand-image but in the lack of deep study and systematic strategy in reality. The purpose of this study is to research the effect on customer's purchasing intention of hotel brand-image and choice-attribution. The empirical research has been done from 23April, 2004 to 20May, 2004. Data were collected from general customers who are using hotel located in Taegu. In conclusion, hotel brand-image depends highly on, the service quality of hotel staff and reputation of hotel. Besides, this acts on customer's hotel choice decisively.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.181-190
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• 2017

The purpose of This study was to find out the effects of the hotel advertising attitude and brand image on customers' purchase intention. For this study, a total of 306 questionnaires among collected data for customers who experience hotel service at five star hotels located in Seoul from April 1, 2015 to April 30, 2015 was to ensure a valid sample. As a result of the experiments which conducted by factor analysis and regression analysis, it shows positive significant effects in purchase intention of "feeling and persuade attitude factor" and "reputation and usefulness attitude factor", but it is not positively effected continual purchase intention in hotel customers. Also, it shows positive significant effects on hotel customers' purchase intention of "emotional brand image" and "physical brand image". From the study, it is expected to find efficient ways to activate purchase intention on hotel products through differentiated advertising and brand image. In addition, it should be considered that positive images building up emotional and physical characteristics in hotels for establishing consumer-brand relationship. From the study, it is expected to find efficient ways to activate purchase intention on hotel products through differentiated advertising and brand image.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.513-523
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• 2021

This study verified the effect of Hotel Drive through Service Quality between Customer Satisfaction and Oncontinuous usage Intention. In addition, by injecting the variable of the Hotel Brand Image between Hotel Drive through Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction, we tried to find out the effect of the Moderating Role. Convenience sampling was used for customers who recently experienced Hotel Drive through Service, which is operated mainly in Seoul. It has been held for about 40 days from December 2020. The survey tool constructed through prior research was distributed to customers who experienced Hotel Drive through Service in Seoul. 289 copies of the collected effective samples were statistically processed using SPSS 22.0. As a result of the analysis, it was found that hypothesis 1 and hypothesis 2 had a significant influence relationship. The Tangibility^*Hotel Brand Image and physical environment^*Hotel Brand Image in Hypothesis 3 were found to have a modulating effect with a significant positive (+) effect. However, it was found that Responsiveness^*Hotel Brand Image and Reliability^*Hotel Brand Image had no control effect.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.93-106
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• 2019

This study is purposed to make sure of the Effects of Hotel Brand Equity on Enterprise Trust and Customer Citizenship Behavior. For this study, the effects of Hotel Brand Equity on Enterprise, the effects of Hotel Brand Equity on Customer Citizenship Behavior and the effects of Enterprise Trust on Customer Citizenship Behavior were analyzed statically by the method of multiple regression analysis. Hotel Brand Equity consists of 3 elements(Perceived Service Quality, Brand Image, Brand Awareness), Enterprise Trust is made of 2 elements(Enterprise Ability, Enterprise Sincerity) and Customer Citizenship Behavior has 2 element(Guest Preference, Guest Helping). As a result, three things have been found. First, Perceived Service Quality has a positive influence on both of Enterprise Trust and Customer Citizenship Behavior which means that Perceived Service Quality is the most essential element for hotel marketing performance. Second, Brand Image has a positive influence partly on Enterprise Trust, that is, only on Enterprise Ability, not Enterprise Sincerity and also on both Guest Preference and Guest Helping whereas Brand Awareness has a positive influence on both of Enterprise Ability and Sincerity but it has no influence on Customer Citizenship Behavior. Third, Enterprise Sincerity has a positive influence on both of two elements in Customer Citizenship Behavior whereas Enterprise Ability has a positive influence on only Guest Helping.

• Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.1-21
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• 2007

This study seeks to understand the effects of information search activities and brand image on the hotel patronage intention based on the theory of reasoned action. First, it investigates the influence of attitude formed about hotel on the patronage intention. Second, it seeks to develope an alternative to TRA by looking into the effects of hotel image variable on hotel-specific attitude and patronage intention and attempts to substantiate the role of brand image as a substitute to subjective norm to increase the TRA's explanatory power. The main finding of this study are as follow; First, out of the three components of cognitive evaluation of hotel (human service, physical service and information service), human and physicial services were found to have significant influence on patronage intention. Brand image was found to exert notable influence on attitude toward hotel as well as patronage intention. Remarkably, the finding that brand image positively enhanced the TRA model sheds new strategic insight as to the usefulness of brand image as an alternative to overcome the TRA's limitation stemming from subjective norm. Third, it was learned that study subjects gave more weight to external information sources such as TV, radio, newspaper, magazine, and internet than to internal sources such as individual knowledge, experience or self image.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.322-332
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• 2021

In this study, the relationship between Customer Satisfaction and Selection Attributes of Hotel Michelin Restaurant was studied. It was attempted to investigate the influence relationship on whether there is a moderating effect by introducing a variable into the Hotel Brand Image. Convenience sampling was used for customers who have recently experienced Hotel Michelin Restaurant, which is currently located in a hotel in Seoul. It has been held for about 60 days from July 1, 2020. The survey tool constructed through prior research was distributed to customers who have experienced the Michelin Restaurant commissioned by hotels in Seoul. 287 copies of the collected effective specimens were statistically processed using SPSS 22.0. As a result of the empirical analysis of this study, it was found that among the factors of Selection Attributes, physical environment, food quality, service quality, and convenience had a significant positive (+) effect between customer satisfaction. It was found that price fairness had no influence. Finally, it was found that there is a moderating effect on the physical environment and service quality variables by introducing the interaction variable between Selection Attributes and Customer Satisfaction.

• The Korean Journal of Franchise Management
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.134-151
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• 2011

The strategy for brand alliance is a new type of franchise to iron out the problems like the hotel restaurant's structural contradiction and decreasing profits caused by keen competition with external restaurants. This study is purposed to present the decisive factors for the brand alliance throughexamining the correlations between the brand restaurant designation standards and the expected effects from local low- and mid-priced hotel's brand alliance. The questionnaires were distributed to instructors and professors who have experience in teaching the food and beverage sections at college's hotel and tourism departments and 100 specialists at managerial level of a hotel's food and beverage parts.This survey was conducted for 20 days from December 2 to 22, 2004 and analyzed by independent t-test and canonical correlation analysis. The findings of this survey are as follows.Firstly, the service of the expected effect factors of the brand alliance was recognized relatively high by the specialists in hotel industry, while the sales effect factor of restaurant designation standards was recognized higher by the academic experts.The specialists of the hotel industry recognized the factors of menu and corporate culture higher than the academic experts. Secondly, the entire factors of the brand restaurant designation standards showed a correlation with the whole factors of the restaurant designation standards.In particular, the 'menu' factor presented the most influential to the expected effects of brand alliance.The factors of 'risk reduction' and 'synergy effect' exerted the strongest effect on the restaurant designation standards, which indicated the mutual correlation between the expected effect of brand alliance and the restaurant designation standards. Based on this study, the correlation between the expected effect of brand alliance and brand restaurant designation standards may play a primary role to choose a partner for the brand alliance, a decisive factor for the success.The execution of the brand alliance or the method to designate the alliance partner may vary from the hotel's desirable effects when the brand alliance is determined.In other words, the partner designation standards should be corresponding to the expected effects from the brand alliance between hotel and brand restaurant, and the academic and industrial experts' perceived differences in the expected effects of brand alliance and restaurant designation standards should be clarified to display the direction of decision-making and find the potential risks.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.139-153
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• 2011

The study is a hotel firm's brand evidence on the switching and relational performance by identifying a causal relationship to the differentiated and competitive was to provide useful information. Units of samples for evidence of brand switching hotels in Seoul participated in surveys customers in 2011, from June 10 to 20 July 2011 for a total of 500 copies for distribution and the Department of dual 408 with SPSS 18.0 and AMOS 18.0 Using factor analysis and reliability verification carried out, and presented research in order to test the hypothesis covariance structure analysis was performed. Analysis, employee services switching barriers and switching costs showed no significant affect. Switching barriers and switching costs, brand name, image congruence transition castle wall and switching costs, alternative attractiveness showed no significant visible results. And perceived price on switching barriers to conversion rates showed was significant affect. Second, switching barriers, switching costs, alternative attractiveness and that the relationship, to help conversion of non-financial performance showed no significant affect. Third, the practitioner services, brand names, images, match the castle there, and non-financial performance of the transition showing a statistically significant result was found.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.111-117
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• 2022

In this study, the factors of customers' selection attributes on family restaurants, brand images, and the effect on revisit intention were analyzed. Specifically, the effects of brand, store, and price, which are sub-factors of family restaurants, on customers' revisit intention, store/service value, brand value, food effect, and revisit intention were examined. Among the brand image and four family restaurant selection attributes derived from this study, the most significant selection attributes were the cleanliness and hygiene of family restaurant stores and the menu and quality of family restaurant stores. Therefore, it can be said that family restaurants are price attributes and store/service attributes that have the most influence among the selection attributes. Through this, we intend to provide basic data necessary to find development plans through strategic plans for family restaurant management in the future.

• Korea Science and Art Forum
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• v.26
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• pp.339-351
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• 2016

This study analyzes convention tourism destination brand slogans focusing on the international convention cities. Data were collected from official tourism web sites of 190 cities which hosts more than ten international meetings in 2013. One hundred and six destination brand slogans were identified. Specifically, the researchers attempt to carry out content analysis of the linguistic and visual expressions of the slogans. Results indicated that in terms of linguistic expressions, most of slogans adopted word or phrase patterns pursuing brevity. In the brand slogan spectrum, nearly half of slogans are common type which didn't express destinations' specific attributes and benefits properly. And the most frequently used key words in the slogans are 'visit' and 'city'. While in terms of visual expressions, about 70% of slogans adopted typography for explicitness and 60% of them utilized human and natural resources as visual signs for building up unique images. Based on the results, implications for creating effective convention tourism destination brand slogans were also discussed.