• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.189-199
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of financial and non-financial performance measures in BSC on the performance of hotel industry. To achieve research purpose, this study analyzed the data from korean hotel industry. Empirical results of this study show that there are significant positive correlations among the performance measures in terms of four balanced scorecard. These results are consistent with those of previous studies. In addition, regression analyses has shown that the performance measures have positive impacts on the performance of hotel firms.

• Journal of Wellbeing Management and Applied Psychology
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.26-30
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• 2021

Purpose: The study tried to make a comparison between local and global brand hotels with respect to the relationships among customer experiences, service quality, customer satisfaction and consumer-brand relationship. This study provided strategic implications according to its results. Research design, data and methodology: To this end, this study collected data from 300 participants who have stayed at local and global brand hotels in Seoul. SAS 9.4 was used for data analysis. Results: The results showed that experiential modules ('sense' module and 'feel-think-act') affected service quality (human service, physical service) in local brand hotels. But 'feel-think-act', one of experiential modules, only affected service quality in global brand hotels. Also, physical service only had strong effects on customer satisfaction with both local and global brand hotels. Finally, customer satisfaction was influenced by consumer-brand relationships for two hotel groups. But there were no statistically significant differences in all estimations between local and global brand hotels. Conclusions: In conclusion, the study provided some strategic implications that experiential marketing in hotel industry needs be practiced maintain the competitive advantage and sustain branding power and will result in stronger consumer-brand relationships in local and global brand hotels.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.1101-1109
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• 2021

Nowadays, quality affects product or service performance and customer loyalty in the competitive business' environment. This is truly important when it comes to how the customer interprets the service's satisfaction and the judgment of the purchase process as a whole, in view of the fact that service quality is an abstract and elusive construction due to the three characteristics of services: intangibility, heterogeneity, and inseparability of output and consumption. The main purpose of this paper is to determine the hotel service quality using the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and SERVQUAL method. In this study, a five-star hotel's real case is considered in evaluating the service quality criteria. The results revealed that Tangibles and Assurance are the most critical service quality criteria in the hotel industry. Accurate records, service consistency, Necessary arrangements for disabled people, Service flexibility to guests' demands, and Providing the services at the time it promises are the most influencing sub-criteria of service quality. These findings indicate that hotels should concentrate on sequentially and organized priority factors to enhance service quality. This method of service quality assessment may also aid in distinguishing between hotels. Finally, as a future direction, more additional parameters can be used as a potential guide in our proposed model for the dynamic decision-making approach.

• East Asian Journal of Business Economics (EAJBE)
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.9-18
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• 2024

Purpose: This study compares Korean and Chinese consumers on the impact of customer equity on trust. Although there have been many studies regarding the impact of customer equity, most of them are limited to the retail and banking industry and mostly compare East and West cultures. Therefore, this study compares Korea and China within East Asia in the hotel industry. Research design, data and methodology: Based on reviews in the literature, this study explores different effects of customer equity on brand trust between Korea and China. To confirm the hypotheses, the research collected survey data from 186 Korean and 155 Chinese respondents. After confirming reliability and validity of measures, this study conducted a multiple regression to test proposed hypotheses. Results: The results of the study showed that all of three customer equities influences on trust positively in the hotel industry. Regarding comparing Korea and China, brand equity has stronger impact on trust in Chinese customers than South Korean customers, on the other hand, value equity and relationship equity had a slightly stronger positive effect in South Korea than in China. Conclusions: This study found significant differences between Korean and Chinese customers in the hotel industry. These results show that even two countries in the same region of East Asia, South Korea and China, are different. Also, this finding suggests that hotel management level should consider differentiating their marketing strategies for Korean and Chinese customers.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.105-113
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to find out the effects of the hotel using experience on customers' purchase and behavior intention. For this study, a total of 306 questionnaires among collected data for customers who hotel using experience 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 1% level positive significant effects in purchase and continual purchase intention of "emotional experiencer", "physical experience factor", "continuous experience factor", and "superior experience factor", but it is 10% level significant effects in continual purchase intention positively effected continual purchase intention of "physical experience factor". Also, it shows 1% level positive significant effects on hotel customers' intention of reused, intention of suggestion, intention of recommendation of "emotional experiencer", "physical experience factor", "continuous experience factor", and "superior experience factor". From the study, it is expected to build hotel-customer relationship and brand level of awareness for activating customers' loyalty.

• Journal of Applied Tourism Food and Beverage Management and Research
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• v.7
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• pp.107-138
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• 1997

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.45-65
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• 2010

This study was to identify the effects of hotel organizational service orientation on CRM(customer relationship management) performance. The organizational service orientation has been considered very important for excellent service quality in many existing studies. The data were collected from employees in deluxe hotels of the metropolitan area with the questionnaire. To test the hypotheses, using AMOS were conducted for 379 respondents as a sample collected. The results show that customer's authority, service training, service reward significantly influenced to competitive advantage. Among the three variables the service reward was especially significant. In addition, competitive advantage significantly influenced to CRM performance (relationship commitment, image of corporation, customer's loyalty). So it is very important for employee to give a authority, share of service training program, give a reward what they want. Because that system can lead to the good performance. As a result, the CEO of hotel has to attention the organizational service orientation for achievement of the CRM performance.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.2178-2184
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• 2010

This study investigated the quality characteristics of the cookies with garlic paste. Five different paste concentration levels of 0, 40, 80, 120 and 140g were added to 400g flour to make the cookie. In terms of color, the L-value and b-value of control group was higher than that with the garlic paste added. In the case of the a-value of garlic paste added group was higher than that with the control group. Among the textural characteristics hardness was decreased according to the addition level of garlic paste. For the sensory evaluation, apperance, taste, texture and overall acceptability were excellent in the group with the addition of 40g garlic paste. From the results of this study, the cookie with 40g garlic paste added content was shown to have the best quality.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.1863-1873
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• 2015

This study aims to research on the relationship between job resources, symptoms of burnout, and depersonalization and its impact on the customer orientation. Using data from hotel frontline employees of Seoul in Korea, it seeks to investigate the mediating effects of burnout symptoms and depersonalization to the relationships between job resources and customer orientation. Data was analyzed using Structural Equations Modeling (SEM) by of AMOS program. The research advances understanding of the relationships between job resources, emotional exhaustion, depersonalization as a situational personality trait and the FLE customer orientation in five deluxe star hotel environment. The findings highlight the value of burnout and depersonalization, and suggest a number of practical implications for the identification, recruitment and retention of hotel employees.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.466-475
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• 2016

This research verified influential relationship among the emotional leadership, job insecurity, and organizational cynicism targeting hotel members. Total 280 questionnaires were distributed and 271questionnaires were collected, among them, 254 questionnaires were finally utilized excluding unfaithful responses or uncompleted questionnaires. When investigating analysis result, first, as the result of investigating the relation between emotional leadership and job insecurity, self-recognition ability and self-control ability displayed meaningful negative (-) influential relation on job loss possibility and job influence weakening that compose job insecurity. Also, other relation ability of emotional leadership displayed meaningful negative (-) influential relation only in job influence weakening of job insecurity. Second, as the result of investigating relation between emotional leadership and organizational cynicism, emotional leadership did not show meaningful influential relation on organizational cynicism. The researcher expects that management of job insecurity through emotional leadership can be helpful to hotel management outcome, and it is determined that efforts per each division or overall hotel is required to have no alienated member by recognizing importance of management on organizational cynicism.