• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.135-148
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• 2020

Purpose - The purpose of this study was to find out the relation between wedding banquet service quality, customer satisfaction and loyalty focusing on upscale hotels in Korea. Design/methodology/approach - The primary data was collected through an online questionnaire to test hypotheses and investigate the objectives of the study. 89 questionnaires were collected as valid data to be analyzed. In order to test hypotheses, reliability, validity, correlations and regression analysis were accomplished. Findings - The findings of this study can be summarized as followed. Firstly, as a result of examining the relationship between perceived hotel wedding banquet quality and customer emotional satisfaction. Through this study, the perceived wedding banquet quality does not affect customer satisfaction. Secondly, emotional satisfaction on wedding banquets affects customer loyalty. Thirdly, it is found that the perceived service quality on wedding banquets can affect customer loyalty. Research implications or Originality - With the rise in selecting wedding venues, establishing an effective marketing strategy by practitioners is demanded in order to survive in competitive situations. However, research conducted on wedding banquets is insufficient so far. Therefore, this study was needed to conduct to widen the scope of the study.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.252-266
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to verify a relationship among service quality and customer satisfaction of wedding hall restaurants, and recommendation intention, as well as the moderating effect of image of wedding halls and hotels on the relationship. A hierarchical regression analysis thorugh SPSS was conducted to test the model hypotheses. Research samples were collected from 331 customers of wedding hall restaurants and hotels located in Seoul. The findings and implications of the research can be summarized as follows. First, the employees, facilities and environment service, and convenience of wedding hall restaurants had a positive effect on customer satisfaction of wedding hall restaurants. Second, evidence suggested that service quality of wedding hall restaurants had a positive effect on recommendation intention. Third, while there was a negative moderating effect of image of wedding halls and hotels between food and employee service quality and customer satisfaction, a positive moderation effect of image of wedding halls and hotels was found. Fourth, there was a negative moderating effect between customer satisfaction and recommendation intention.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.406-414
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• 2012

The purpose of this study tries to find some competitive marketing strategies of the hotel wedding service. In order to do that, this study positively analyzes the followings: First, the causality between the qualities of hotel wedding service and customer satisfaction. Second, the word-of-mouth intention on the causality. The study bases on the survey that has been conducted for five-star hotel customers in Seoul. 20 questionnaires were circulated in each for 12 five-star hotels in Seoul. The number of sample used in this study is 315. This study draws two conclusions from the above survey analysis: First, the hotel wedding service influences customer satisfaction. Second, customers' word-of-mouth plays a meaningful controlling role between the qualities of hotel wedding service and customer satisfaction. Regarding the results and limits of this study, more researches are needed into the products of hotel wedding service and the sample segmentation.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.3
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• pp.271-289
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• 1997

The purpose of this study is to investigate previous data and possibility of the new culture building, insuring substantiality of the education in junior college, increasing of practical carrier, acquiring the money for practical class, and the direction of demand for education in a high level of industrial society. There's two parts to consist of investigation and the model case in wedding business in Junior college. The research groups in one part consist of 277 students in Junior college. The result were as follows: 1) The students would like to get the wedding business in new culture building. (72%) 2) The student shave got a idea to recommend to use the wedding facilities for their for their relative sand friends. (51%) 3) The trend of selecting in wedding facilities is outside than inside of facilities. (75%) 4) They would like to have the buffet service after wedding celemony, not a la carte for choose the meal. The above research data suggest that if the wedding facility's management would be accept, we could have expectation about development of junior college, emphasis of practical education and good wedding culture in this areas. For the most of student, they has a righ hand to manage the wedding facility in their college. First, the culinary students could have an experience of service practies to the customer in wedding celemony, as the result of training will be great. Second, the college could show their vision and hope to customer to interest it. Third, it can be supplied the right wedding culture and the wedding facilities which is low price and good circumstance for wedding. Fourth, it's very resonable to use the culture facilities during no class, Saturday and Sunday. Fifth, income from business can be used only a scholarship and a community development. Sixth, it can be induced the self-participication and motivation to take up a positive attitude for their life.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.217-232
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• 2018

As the types of wedding ceremonies become diversified, and consumers' needs become more selective, greater importance is given to wedding planners' roles in the wedding industry, and consumers require differentiated types of wedding service. As a preliminary qualitative study in this field, an ethnographic study was conducted to identify factors valued by consumers when selecting a wedding planner in the wedding planner market, which has rapidly grown in recent years. An in-depth interview was performed with eight participants in terms of wedding planner utilization type and consumers' understanding of wedding preparation with a wedding planner. The collected data were analyzed through taxonomy, component analysis and decision table analysis; for validation, professional wedding planners were asked to review the items valued by consumers in selecting a wedding planner. Four factors - expense characteristic, wedding planners, wedding consulting companies, and customer characteristics - were identified, along with eight sub-factors (capability, service attitude, technical communication, personal factors, wedding planner encounter paths, spouse's satisfaction status, and companies). Out of these, price (within budget), wedding planners' capability, wedding planners' service attitude are expected to be meaningful in further research because they were found to be attributes commonly valued by every respondent. This study is significant in that it has made a new approach to understanding wedding planner selection attributes through ethnographic research and identified new wedding planner selection attributes.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• no.13
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• pp.25-31
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• 1997

The purpose of this study is to provide the guideline of the interior design of Wedding halls, based on a series of investigations and analysis of the consumer's preference. Marriage is an essential ceremony of family life. However the Wedding culture has been changed since the western culture affected to traditional marriage concept. Many countries have different wedding culture and traditiov. Ours are largely divided into the traditional Korean wedding ceremony and the modern, i.e. the westerv. The customer's preference and the opinion for the Wedding hall analyzed through survey to find out the guideline for the interior desigv. The result of this research can be summarized as followings; 1) The interior design was the most influential element when choosing the wedding hall. 2) The preferred colors for the wedding hall were pink and white. 3) The preferred light fixture for the wedding hall was the chandelier. 4) The main points concerned in the guideline of interior design for the wedding hall were building facade, accessibility toward the wedding hall, parking lot, traffic circulation and etc.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.593-600
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• 1999

The wedding business in getting specialized and subdivided lately. Due to this current the importance and the necessity of the software for wedding business emerged. So far people who were preparing for their wedding have usually picked up their wedding dress from the pictures on the brochure at the wedding dress shop. But it costs the customers time and money and most of all they can not satisfy their customers with the completed wedding dress sometimes. Moreover customers pay a lot of money for the wedding dress just because they wear the wedding dress once in their whole life. This is unreasonable actually. To solve these problems to help the customers choose their wedding dress that they really like and to provide the wedding dress with good price we developed this software. The purpose of this research is to help people who will marry soon save their time and money in this busy world by showing the shape of the wedding dress before the dress is completed. They can see if the dress goes well with them before it is sewed by seeing the imaginary wedding dress on the computer screen. We are trying to maximize the customer's satisfaction with this research. It is the idea of this research to differentiate this new concept of wedding dress from other existing concepts by grafting this software on companies' accumulated experience in marketing and diffusing this software through the country.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.240-251
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to establish the relationship between wedding companies and wedding planners and understand the influence of relationship factors on the relationship performance and relationship continuation intention of wedding companies. We conducted an online survey from June to July 2017, and collected 201 responses which were used during analysis. Statistical analysis, including technical statistical analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, and regression analysis, was undertaken using SPSS 23. This study shows that among the relationship factors affecting the wedding planner and the wedding company, the computational tie-up has a significant impact on both the financial and non-financial performance of the wedding company, while emotional tie-ups have a significant impact on the non-financial performance of the wedding company, but not on financial performance. As for the effects of relationship commitment to wedding planners on wedding shops' relationship continuation intention, each factor for relationship commitment significantly affected wedding shops' relationship continuation intention. Regarding the effects of wedding shops' relational performance on relationship continuation intention, each factor of performance significantly affected relationship continuation intention. Therefore, wedding companies should make continuous efforts to maintain this relationship and recognize the need for robust relationships with wedding planners as a sure and important competitive tool for attracting customer and generating revenue.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.239-253
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• 2010

This study was designed to investigate the performance analysis of dining space design, food styling, and table decoration of hotel wedding conventions. For this purpose, it investigated relevant literatures, set up hypotheses to solve main questionable considerations and made a corresponding empirical analysis. For the empirical analysis, a questionnaire survey was conducted to total 316 customers of deluxe hotels in the Seoul area. The model was tested using SPSS 12.0 and AMOS 5.0 on a sample of 321 surveys received with 96% of usable response rate. The results of the empirical analysis are as follows. Dining space design has a significant effect on customer satisfaction. Food styling has significant influence on customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction has significant influence on revisit intention. Customer satisfaction has a significant effect on word of mouth. Revisit intention has significant influence on word of mouth.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.260-274
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• 2007

This research explores the intension of repeatable guests through on the wedding facilities, employees' service ability, and banquet menu. First, wedding facilities include transportation, parking lots, subsidiary facilities, reception desks, Paebaek Rooms, and waiting rooms for brides. Secondly, according to the analysis for service quality of hotel wedding feasts, respondence and sympathy were not be fully considered while good effects showed through materiality, reliability and conviction. Thirdly, hotels will be expected to have re-visiting guests when the guests have good experience on the hotel facilities and satisfying menu. Alternatively, menu would have a negative result if there's not satisfying service. Employees should be aware of the list of menu and can be able to offer a suggestion. In other words, a banquet has to be prepared not only with fresh or seasoned ingredients but with good service to make the guests revisit. Therefore, we should be aware of what our guests want and how to prepare for their satisfaction.