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An Exploratory Study on the Customer Satisfaction of e-Ticket Process (항공사 e-티켓 이용에 대한 고객 만족에 관한 탐색적 연구)

  • Yoo, Yong-Jae;Park, Jong-Gi;Lee, Seung-Chang
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.40-50
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    • 2006
  • This study investigates how airline customers evaluate e-ticket process newly adopted by many of airlines. Customers are highly satisfied with the easy of confirmation on their itineraries and the channel provided through while they are worry about the likelihood of leakage of personal information during e-ticket process. Highly experienced customers on the usage of e-ticket are more concerned about ancillary aspects such as visual image of I.T.R(Itinerary and Receipt) and travel information than functional aspect such as easy of confirmation on itinerary. And also experienced customers are more likely to repurchase e-ticket and when purchasing tickets they do it through internet and call center of airlines rather than travel agencies and ticket office of airlines.

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A Study on Re-Participation and Recommendation by Evaluation of Cruise Tour Attributes (크루즈(Cruise)참가속성 만족도에 따른 재 참가 및 참가추천의사에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Do-Yeong;Kim, Maeng-Seon
    • Journal of Applied Tourism Food and Beverage Management and Research
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.69-84
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    • 2006
  • Recently, Cruise travel Industry becomes a major market in the SIT tour. this perspective, the primary purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between influencing factors of the Selection Attributes of Cruise Tour. This research aims to provide information to establish customer-oriented marketing strategies in developing by cruise tour. The current study examined related literature finding out the number of the factors to meet future users preference and expectations. Based on examined factors, the study investigated the same dimensions in Korea future cruise industry. The data collected outgoing tourists of travel service company. The Survey instrument consisted of asking respondents a number of questions regarding their intention, preferences, and expectations toward future cruise travel. The result of study showed that a certain number of factors were statistically significant on the future users cruise travel intention. It shows that there was significant difference related to the using purpose and the usage attitude. It can be conducted from the results that respondents expected a certain number of factors when the cruise travel launched in korea.

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A Study on Factors Influencing Chinese Tourists' Intention to Use Online Travel Reservation Services (방한 중국인의 온라인 여행 예약 서비스 사용의도에 미치는 영향 요인에 대한 연구)

  • Han, Jing Hao;Kwon, Hyuk Jin;Kim, Dongsoo
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.257-272
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    • 2013
  • As visiting of Chinese tourists to Korea have increased gradually, Chinese people who use online travel reservation services for their visits to Korea have increased accordingly. In addition, the growth of the online reservation services in China is very rapid. Therefore, it is necessary to study the factors affecting the Chinese tourists' intention to use the online travel reservation services in order to advance e-business in the travel industry. This paper presents a new research model based on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) including perceived risk, service factors, online reviews and user satisfaction. Also, it analyzes factors affecting the Chinese tourists' intention to use the online travel reservation services. The results of this study show that the key influencers of the online travel reservation services are perceived usefulness, perceived ease, and perceived risk. Additionally, based on these results, this paper proposes practical suggestions to solve the existing problems and improve online travel reservation websites in China.

Exploring the Influence of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality on User Satisfaction in Virtual Tourism

  • Thich Van NGUYEN;Tho Van NGUYEN;Dat Van NGUYEN
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.33-44
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    • 2024
  • Purpose: This study aims to measure how information quality, system quality, security, usefulness, and ease of use of Augmented Reality (VR) and Virtual Reality (AR) influence user satisfaction, motivating intelligent travel technology developers to improve VR/AR quality to meet customer requirements. Research design, data and methodology: This study investigates users interested in travelling in Ho Chi Minh City and Nha Trang City, Vietnam. The research model was implemented using an online questionnaire and face-to-face from 405 valid samples. To evaluate the scale's reliability, the study used the software SPSS 20. Test research hypotheses and evaluate measurement and structural models. This research uses AMOS 20 software. The proposed model is firmly grounded in the Information System Success model (ISS) and the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), providing a solid theoretical foundation for our research. Results: Results show that consumer perceptions of information quality, system quality, security, usefulness, and ease of use have a positive impact on the perceived quality of VR/AR, thereby influencing tourists' travel intention. Conclusions: The results of this research enrich the theoretical understanding of consumer behaviour toward intelligent technology products in tourism, providing management implications for manufacturers to improve the quality of tourism products and satisfy user requirements in experience before considering choosing a destination.

Burnout and Coping Strategies among Tourism Service Employees (관광서비스 종사원의 소진 현상과 대처 전략)

  • Kim, Pan-Young;Song, Sung-In
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.103-115
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this paper is that investigates a model of burnout and coping strategy employees in out-bound travel agency. So, we investigated the relationship between burnout variables(emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, reduces personal accomplishment) and employee's job satisfaction, intentions to resign. And we suggest that coping strategies will control the relationship between burnout and job attitude. We used social support, self esteem, and leisure involvement as a coping method. Data obtained from survey of frontline employees working in the several outbound travel agencies in Seoul, Korea. In the result, it has strong relationships between burnout and job-relative components. Perceived burnout phenomenon has negatively effect on job satisfaction and positively effect on resign intention. Coping variables controled in the relationship between burnout and job satisfaction. In the practical implications, managers can take an action as like a social support to reduce employee's burnout. And employee has activity hobby for reducing the burnout.

A Study on the Influence of the Motivation of the Reality Travel Program on the Viewing Satisfaction and Visiting Intention (리얼리티 여행 프로그램의 시청 동기가 시청 만족도와 방문 의도에 미치는 영향 연구)

  • Kim, Sung-Hoon;Oh, Do-Yoon;Shin, Ha-Yeon
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.19 no.9
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    • pp.47-56
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    • 2019
  • In line with the increasing demand for domestic travel, Reality Travel Programs(hereinafter referred to as RTP) in which actors don't have the script in program are increasing. We explored the impact of RTP "Viewing Satisfaction" and "Revisit Intentions". Firstly, factors of "entertainment", "sympathy", "aesthetic", "information", "interaction" and "Indirect Experience" were confirmed. Secondly, common factors that have a positive impact on Dependent variables in RPT were "esthetics" and "IE". By empathizing with the beauty of the environment and actor's emotions, the RTP had a positive influence to "VS" and wanting to visit the area. Provided a theoretical basis by verifying that viewing motives for RTP have a positive impact on VS and RI.

The Study on the Satisfaction and Image of Passenger at Section Seven, in Olle-gil (올레길 7구간의 이용객 만족도 및 이미지 분석)

  • Kang, Bang-Hun;Cho, Seung-Jin;Son, Jin-Kwan;Shin, Ji-Hoon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.13-24
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    • 2012
  • This study aimed to investigate the images that affect general travel behavior and satisfaction of eco-tourists of Section seven of Jeju Olle-gil and to give eco-tourists preferred images to newly constructed eco-tour sections. Adjectives were selected to evaluate images, and for analysis, a survey was carried out with 132 persons who have toured 7 section of Jeju Olle-gil. On this survey, basic travel type, overall satisfaction, image before and after experience, age, gender, satisfaction level and accompanying type were inquired. 81(61.4%) knew section 7 of Jeju Olle-gil 'in advance', and 58(39.1%), which takes up the largest portion in this question, came to choose section 7 by a word of mouth. 95(71.9%) answered that they stayed 2 nights and 3 days, and 55(41.7%) answered that they stayed at a pension as accommodation. As for accompanying type, 34(25.7%) answered they accompanied family and relatives. As for the decision of visit, 60(45.5%) replied that they decided one month prior to the visit. And as for the purpose of visit, 63 (33.8%) replied they visited to appreciate nature. The adjectives that demonstrate overall satisfaction and significance level of the tourists were 'placid', 'refreshing', 'living', 'mountainous' and 'green'. As for the satisfaction level, people were satisfied with its environment, cleanliness level and direction boards. The types of section preferred by the tourists were clay pavements, followed by sand-masa soil mixture pavement and wooden deck pavement. 'Oidolgae' section was selected as the representative section, and 10:00a.m.~12:00p.m. was preferred as visiting time. And it is also proved that people were positive in appointing photo zones.

A Study on the Impact Positive Psychological Capital of Tour Guides on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment (관광가이드의 긍정심리자본 요인이 직무만족 및 조직몰입에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Seong-ho Yang;Jae-Woo Choi
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.167-185
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    • 2023
  • Purpose - The purpose of this study is to identify the influence relationship between positive psychological capital, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment of tourism guides, and to provide implications through empirical research to increase the capabilities of tourism guides that are a factor in the performance of planned travel products Design/methodology/approach - This study conducted an empirical survey using the google online questionnaire. It was directly surveyed, distributed, and collected from workers who were or were performing tourism guide duties in Asia and Europe, and 203 questionnaires were used for analysis. The empirical survey was conducted in a self-written manner through a simple random sampling method, and the statistical package was conducted with frequency analysis, factor analysis, multiple regression analysis, and correlation analysis using the spss 21.0 program. Findings - First, among the positive psychological capital factors, two factors, hope and optimism, have a significant positive (+) effect on job satisfaction. Second, among the positive psychological capital factors, two factors, self-efficacy and optimism, have a significant positive (+) effect on organizational commitment. Third, job satisfaction has a significant positive (+) effect on organizational commitment Research implications or Originality - The implications of this study are that the research results have had a positive (+) effect on the variables of positive psychological capital, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment of tourism guides, and have laid the foundation for academic research on research topics. In practice, it is expected to increase the positive psychological capital of tourism guides and have a significant impact on the organization's performance by actively supporting and supporting individuals related to the sustainable growth of travel products.

An Empirical Study on Job-Satisfaction of Tour Guide

  • Choi, Hyun-Seok;Shin, Dong-Sook
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.79-94
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    • 2005
  • This study examines which factors affect on Job-Satisfaction of Tour Guide in Korea, perceiving that Job-Satisfaction of Tour Guide affects customer satisfaction, and outcomes of business. In the tourism industry, Tour Guides are one of the most important factors influencing customer satisfaction, because they are one of the key front- line players. Ultimately, the purpose of this study is to present the importance of efficient management for human resources through investigating Job-Satisfaction of Tour Guide. To active purpose of this study, both literatures and empirical research based on Japanese, and Chinese Tour Guides in Korea were adopted and conducted. In conclusion, in order to improve psychological and behavioral outcomes of the Tour Guides, job satisfaction factors have to be improved in many ways and also travel managers should consider them.

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The Effects of e-Service Quality of Online Travel Agency on Relationship Quality and Reuse Intention: Focused on Chinese Individual Tourists (온라인 여행사의 e-서비스품질이 관계품질과 재이용의도에 미치는 영향: 중국 개별여행객을 중심으로)

  • Zhang, Xin-Yi;Yeo, Young-Suk
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.171-177
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    • 2020
  • This study investigates e-service quality of online travel agency and influence on relationship quality and Reuse. The individual Chinese tourists with experiences using online travel agencies were chosen for the study. The survey was carried out at Jeju International Airport, which is the most frequently used by Chinese tourists visiting Korea. Data were collected for 7 days from July 15, 2019 to July 21, 2019. A total of 320 tourists were attended in this research and finally 300 samples were used for empirical analysis. The result of the study showed that e-service quality of online travel agencies all factors(convenience, individuality, accuracy and price attractiveness) influences on relationship quality all factors(satisfaction, trust) and the factor 'accuracy' was analyzed as the biggest among them. Moreover satisfaction and trust factors of all sub-factors of relationship quality influences on reuse. In the future, we intend to provide basic marketing data for Chinese tourists using online travel agencies to officials and practitioners. Particularly, focusing on the tourism behaviors of individual Chinese tourists, we are going to propose effective business cooperation plans and strategic alternatives with online travel agencies.