The Guidelines for the Service Marketing Development of Hotels in BenchaBurapaSuwannabhum Cluster
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The objectives of the research were: (1) to study tourists and hotel entrepreneur’s opinions throughout the service marketing mix for hotel business development. ; (2) to study the guideline for the service marketing development of hotels in BenchaBurapaSuwannabhum cluster. This study is the mixed method research based on data obtained through interviews and questionnaires. The sample groups of this research were divided into qualitative and quantitative methods. The population of this research comprise of 302 hotel entrepreneurs in BenjaBurapaSuvarnabhumi cluster and 3,825,470 tourists who travel into 5 provinces of BenjaBurapaSuvarnabhumi cluster. The sampling populations in quantitative research are 170 people of hotel entrepreneurs in BenjaBurapaSuvarnabhumi cluster, the researcher random selection by proportional stratified random method. And the tourists who travel into BenjaBurapaSuvarnabhumi cluster in total of 2,000 people and random selection by stratified sampling in an equal allocation method from each province for 400 people. The sampling populations in qualitative research are the hotel entrepreneurs in BenjaBurapaSuvarnabhum cluster selected totally 20 people,the researcher random selection by purposive sampling method.
The researcher used interview forms for hotel entrepreneurs, the questionnaires were used in order to collect the data from tourists and hotel entrepreneurs. The quantitative method was conducted by distributing 2,000 sets of questionnaires to the tourists and 170 sets of questionnaires to the hotel entrepreneurs. The qualitative method was conducted by interviewing hotel entrepreneurs in total 20 samples. The statistics used in the data analysis are frequency distribution, percentage, mean, standard deviation, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and content analysis.
The outcome of qualitative research revealed that: the most significance factors of the service marketing mix for the hotel business development were people, products, prices and promotions. The outcome of quantitative research revealed that: the most requirements of the hotel entrepreneurs through the service marketing development are products, people and processes. While, the most requirement of the service marketing development from tourists are prices, products and processes. The guidelines of the service marketing for hotel business development in BenchaBurapaSuwannabhum cluster was consisted of empirical data by c2 = 11.274, df = 9, p = .257, c2/df = 1.253,GFI = 0.997, AGFI = 0.990, CFI = 0.999, NFI = 0.997, RMSEA = 0.016 and RMR = 0.003. The factor that had significant factor loading were 1) Personal development, 2) product and price development 3) Sales promotion development 4) Amenities development, 5) Process development 6) Channel of distribution development and 7) Service development respectively.
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