• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.665-674
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• 2011

This study examined how students' satisfaction with their major department influences their organizational commitment and intention to pursue a career in tourism-related fields among college students majoring in hospitality and tourism. The results indicated that their overall satisfaction with their department affected positively their organizational commitment but not the behavioral intention to pursue career in the tourism-related fields. Organizational commitment, on the other hands, exerted a positively significant influence behavioral intention to pursue tourism-related career. The results of this study underscored the needs for the educators to manage students' psychological attachment to the department they belong to and their major field of study. Continuous relationship-building efforts should be made for the students to pursue tourism-related career after graduation. Such efforts include efficient communication between faculty and students, extended supports from the school and alumni to the students, and last but not the least, sufficient supports from colleges.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.267-274
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• 2011

The purposes of the study is builded upon previous researches to set up research model and investigate the relationship among store image, customers' emotional responses and behavior intention. For achieving study purposes, research model and hypotheses were set up after reviewing previous researches. The data were collected from a sample of 296 customers of department store, then used to conducted an empirical analysis. The results showed the significant relationship were partially found among store image, emotional responses and behavior intention. Objective store image influence positive emotions, indirectly influence behavior intention through positive emotions, but objective store image don't influence negative emotions. Subjective store image influence shoppers' positive emotions and negative emotions, and indirectly influence shoppers' behavior intention through positive emotions and negative emotions. This study has provided a variety of theoretical and practical implications for retailers to set up marketing strategies.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.225-234
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of airline's retention equity on customer positive exclusive behavior intention and to minimize customer churn based maintenance is aimed to derive key variables in air transport market. A survey was conducted Incheon and Gimpo airport to use in the national carrier of domestic air travelers. A total of 480 respondents completed a survey. The result reveal that loyalty program, preferential treatment & acknowledgement program, and community program have significantly effect on positive behavior intention. However, preferential treatment & acknowledgement program, and community program have significantly effect on exclusive behavior intention. It showed that they are more influence than loyalty program as a switching barrier of airlines. The academic and practical implication of this study has been identified in the competitive market to maximize customer retention factors of maintaining retention equity to derive empirical strategic priorities.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.129-138
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• 2015

There are limited resources on how servicescape influence customer emotions and respond towards customer satisfaction and behavioral intention. Hence, this research investigates how servicescape influence customer behavioral intention in local coffee shops in Kuala Lumpur by using Multiple Regression analysis. This study mainly focus on three environmental dimensions, which are the facility aesthetics, music and layout accessibility. Based on the result, it shows that both music and layout accessibility are significant factors that greatly influence customer satisfaction and behavioral intention. Overall, this research indicates that managers should realise thatmusic and layout accessibility play an important role to influence customers eating out at coffee shops.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.199-210
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of sustainability management in institutional foodservice on store image and behavioral intention (revisit intention, word of mouth, willingness to pay a premium). Methods: Based on a total of 371 samples obtained from the empirical research, this study reviewed the reliability and fitness of the model. Results: According to results of exploratory factor analysis, sustainability management derived three factors, economic value, socially responsible, and environmentally sound. The structural equation modeling showed that social responsibility in sustainability management had a significant positive effect on store image and behavioral intention. In addition, customer's perceived store image in foodservice had a significant positive effect on behavioral intention. The relationship between sustainability management and behavioral intention was found to be a partially significant effect. Conclusion: The results of this study revealed the importance of sustainability management of foodservice to improve store image and behavioral intention.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.761-770
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• 2012

The purposes of the study is builded upon previous researches to investigate the relationship among store's physical environment, customers' emotional responses and behavior intention. For achieving study purposes, research model and hypotheses were set up after reviewing previous researches. The data were collected from a sample of 659 consumers of korea and china department stores, then used to conduct an empirical analysis. The results showed: First, the significant relationship were partially found among store's physical environment, emotional responses and behavior intention, design factor, social factor of store' physical environment both influence shoppers' positive emotions, indirectly influence shoppers' behavior intention through positive emotions, and social factor influence shoppers' negative emotions, indirectly influence shoppers' behavior intention through negative emotions. Second, the results also showed that they are different between korea and the china customer. Therefor, this study has provided a variety of theoretical and practical implications for global retailers to set up marketing strategies.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.687-711
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• 2009

This research was conducted to explore the factors that cause medical tourists' dissatisfaction, and find ways to solve the tourists' problems by researching on the relationship between the service recovery and the failure of medical services. Also, the research has put more emphasis on establishing marketing strategies that enable Japanese medical tourists to actively visit Korea, and finding out the effects that the medical tourists satisfaction and trust have on their behavioral intentions, recommendations, and positive feedbacks. The summary of the research analysis results as follows. First, the service recovery after the service failure has positive influences on the medical tourist's satisfaction. Second, the service recovery has proven its positive influences on the tourists' trusts and behavioral intentions. Third, the satisfaction of the service recovery has built the mutual trust between the tourists' and the medical center, and this has positive influences on the customer's behavioral intentions. Finally, the research was conducted to analyze the moderating effects on the relationship between the service recovery and the recovery satisfaction. It was found that the medical service failure recognition type has proven no moderating effects.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.165-182
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• 2014

This study has been carried out to provide marketing materials concerning recognition of parents and students for operators of private cooking education institutes and useful information for the parents who are to send their children to such training institutes, by identifying the effects of the quality of educational services and educational environment of cooking education institutes on satisfaction and positive recommendation intention of trainees. Especially, educational services and educational environment of cooking education institutes that provide education to foster skilled workforce in specialized culinary area were analyzed in detail to draw effective data. Firstly, it has been studied if educational services of cooking education institutes such as educational contents, service of instructors and educational service quality had positive effects on the level of satisfaction about the institutes. Secondly, looking into effects of satisfactory environmental service of cooking education institutes, such as educational environment and quality of administration, on behavioral intention, it has been surveyed that all factors affected satisfaction of students. Thirdly, as for the effect of use intention of action of cooking education institute on positive recommendation intention of trainees, it has been shown that satisfaction with educational services and environment had an effect on positive recommendation intention as well as on intention of reregistration. Therefore, it can be suggested that marketing strategies and management strategies need to be established in a way that quality of education services and educational environment provided by cooking education institutes can render positive behavioral intention to customers of cooking education and the education market through differentiated strategy establishment.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.1-16
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to promote package tourism. The value perceived as a sub-factor of tourism motivation and inducement was divided into emotional and functional values. And the variables of tourism constraints, satisfaction and behavior were addedly presented. The analysis proved that all factors have a positive effect on perceived values (emotional and functional) of the sub-factors of tourism motivation (daily escape, harmony, service appeal, convenience). The perceived value (emotional and functional) has also established a positive impact on the satisfaction, and tourism restrictions have been proven to have a negative impact on satisfaction and behavior intention. Finally, it was confirmed that there was a positive relationship between the two variables of satisfaction and behavior. Based on these research results, the implications and future research directions were presented, and it could be useful for promoting package tourism.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.68-77
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to identify the optimal model to explain safety behavioral intention according to the recognition of safety communication in cabin through comparison of Planned behavioral theory and Triandis' theory of interpersonal behavior. In order to accomplish the study purpose, research model and hypothesis were established based on the previous research. As a result of the analysis, it was found that attitude and Perceived Behavioral Control had a positive effect on the safety behavioral intention. Triandis theory shows that social factors and habits have a positive impact on safety behavioral intention. In addition, A comparison of the two models confirms that both psychological processes of recognition and emotion are accompanied by the relationship between safety information awareness and safety behavioral intention.