• 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.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.17 no.8
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• pp.338-350
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• 2017

The Gangneung coffee festival which started over escaping from the existing Sunrise Festival and Dano Festival of Gangneung has marked the 8th anniversary in 2016. Therefore, as the purpose of this study, an effect of service quality, perceived value, satisfaction, and loyalty of participants in the coffee festival was investigated through a structural equating model to prepare the system that can reinforce the Gangneung Coffee Festival's young and bright image escaping from the traditional city of many artists so that it can develop into the representative festival of Korea. This study was performed through a survey focusing on 623 tourists who visited the 2016 Gangneung Coffee festival events. The results in the study are summarized as follow: First, the service quality was classified into 3 factors of the festival programs and image, festival sites and food, and festival information and staffs. The reliability analysis has found that the 3 factors all show high reliability of more than 0.8. Second, the service quality of the festival has a significant effect on perceived value, satisfaction, and loyalty, except for some items. Third, the perceived value has found to have a significant effect on only satisfaction about the effect of it on satisfaction and loyalty. Fourth, satisfaction with the festival has found to have a significant effect on loyalty. Suggesting implications from the above results in the study, killer contents that can create a culture street of coffee through various programs of the Gangneung Coffee Festival and reinforce the possibility of the coffee city should be secured. And experience factors to make tourists watch, touch, and feel coffee are needed.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.135-142
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• 2017

The purpose of current study was to identify the influence of event quality on brand value, satisfaction, and recommend intention as perceived by a local food festival participants. Survey was distributed to the Changwon Miderdok festival participants, 350 questionnaire surveys were distributed and 330 participants were employed for statistical analysis with erasing invalid responses. Based on the process of hypothesis verification on the formulated model, it suggested that motivation factors have significantly impact on evolvement element. Specifically, humanic and physical elements were significant predictors of both brand value and satisfaction, and all factors of event quality except convenience were critical antecedents of visitors' satisfaction. In current study, in addition, brand value has positive influence on satisfaction and satisfied visitors tried to recommend the destination to others. This study will help to develop meaningful marketing strategy for local food festival industry. Furthermore, this study will contribute to improve an attractive business model to increase profit for both local society and academic study related to local food festival.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.129-139
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• 2020

This study aims to understand the determinants and effects of SNS photo sharing on festival satisfaction among teenage festivalgoers, to derive strategies that festival organizers could employ to maintain long-term relationships with their audience. In this paper, we followed the festival attribute and SNS photo sharing behavior approaches for developing measurement constructs, by investigating previous related studies. Statistical analyses revealed that festival attributes positively impact consumer perceptions of festival value, which in turn influences SNS photo sharing behavior and festival satisfaction. In addition, SNS photo sharing behavior has a significant mediation effect on the process. Moreover, the differing intensities of SNS usage among the festivalgoers resulted in consumers presenting significantly different SNS photo sharing behavior. Our findings offer insights for marketers in the festival business who are interested in gaining a better understanding of the behavior of teenage festivalgoers.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.380-392
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• 2009

This study aims to understand what aspects among perceived environmental cues affect on satisfaction and behavior intention of visitors with the object of Gwangju Chungjang Festival 2008, which is a city festival. The survey was performed in the festival period, from October 7 through, 12 2008 with 300 visitors who finished the touring of the Festival. All the 300 questionnaires were returned, but only 270 out of 300 were used, except for the unfaithful responses, for the analysis. For statistical process of the collected data, frequency analysis, reliability analysis, factor analysis and multiple regression were performed by using SPSS 12.0 for Windows via the process of data coding. As the result, first, the factor, environmental cues of city festival were shown differently in three dimensions of satisfaction. In other words, 'food factor' is an important factor for festival satisfaction. Second, for re-visit intention, which is the consequence variable and behavior intention of satisfaction regarding the environmental cue factor, 'convenient facility factor' and 'accessibility and promotion factor' were significant and 'promotion and guidance factor' for the recommendation factor was significant. On the contrary, 'food factor' did not have significant impact. Third and finally, as the analysis result of impact of festival satisfaction on re-visit intention and recommendation intention, which are the behavior intentions, festival satisfaction was significant. This study aims suggestion of development strategies for Gwangju Chungjang Festival 2008. It is appropriate time for this study at the point of promoting city festivals. Also, suggestions in this study can help promotion of development direction.

• CRM연구
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.33-52
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• 2009

This research focused on the moderating role of the influence an expectation exerts on a performance by a regional festival and the experience to get visitor's feeling and satisfaction. A survey design was used for the last analysis targeted for the respondent who experienced an experience directly targeted for the regional where a regional festival is promoted actively targeted for the visitor. Results are show a positive influence on the expectation exerts on a performance of festival. In addition, it was confirmed that festival experience activity the role important to feeling and satisfaction of a visitor. We suggest, therefore, that it has to raise the efficiency of the strengthening of an experience program to raise an performance of festival participants and the festival manage to draw out the various feeling formation and satisfaction through participation customers' segmentation.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.241-247
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to determine the satisfaction and return impact of the Festival visitors visiting the food and art festivals in Suncheon city. which successfully hosted the Suncheon Bay Garden Expo.. In order to carry out this research, hypothesis was set up, and after the questionnaire survey was conducted for the visitors participating in the festival, empirical analysis was conducted through the survey. Also, I would like to present the implications for the tourism development process and the convergence research of the fourth industry for the garden and food tourism of the tourists coming back again in the future due to the festival. The effect of factors on festival satisfaction was found to be influential in order of tourism product, food, guide and public event program. Also products and food facilities. It was confirmed that the guide and publicity part had an influence on the revisit of the festival and also the recommendation of the festival. As a result, the attributes of satisfaction factor of Suncheon Food & Art Festival were confirmed and causality was derived because visitors' satisfaction had positive influence on behavior intention. However, the limitations of the study remain in that it does not reveal the subdivision factors of the satisfaction and perceived satisfaction in measuring the festival satisfaction.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.203-210
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to examine the attractiveness of local festival on local esteem of residents through the residents' satisfaction toward the festival. The survey was undertaken for four days during October 11 to 14 of 2013 in Dongnae, Busan. Two hundred twenty-three respondents were selected and invited to participate in this study. Results found a significant relationship between local festival attractiveness and festival satisfaction. The study also indicated that local community residents' satisfaction toward the festival had a significant, positive relationship with the residents' local esteem. Among the attractiveness factors, it was revealed that novelty-seeking and entertainment were more powerful stimulators. Also, analysis indicated that program quality, uniqueness, and convenience were also important for attracting local residents toward the festival. Theoretical and practical implication were discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.129-139
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to investigate the visitors' satisfaction with the Daegaya History Experience Festival and to provide practical implications to festival planners. Some important results of this study were as following. First, educational effectiveness had the highest satisfaction among visitors. Second, picking strawberries was founded as the most favored family oriented experience and experiencing the Daegaya vessel was perceived as the next layered program. Third, This festival provided pay experiences to the visitors including drawing bronze age rocks on the visitors' faces and Daegaya vessel making. Fourth, this festival achieved specializing of volunteers and increased satisfaction of guides. For future study, it is necessary to do empirical studies including investigating the determinant factors of festival visitors' satisfaction and behavioral intentions.