Cruise travel is characterized by the fact that all that time they moving is the process of travel. Environments of the cruise ship determine the travel experiences, as they enjoy traveling in a limited space. For this reason, the servicescape of crui...
Cruise travel is characterized by the fact that all that time they moving is the process of travel. Environments of the cruise ship determine the travel experiences, as they enjoy traveling in a limited space. For this reason, the servicescape of cruise ships is worth studying.
The results of this study on servicescape in cruise ships are as follows. First, physical servicescape did not significantly affect satisfaction. This result is a different from previous studies, and non-visual conditions such as noise, indoor temperature or lighting, view, music, and scent that attract attention only in unpleasant cases do not have a significant impact on customer satisfaction. Second, human servicescape had a significant impact on satisfaction. With this result, it was found that the efforts of cruise crews is important element for satisfaction. Third, program servicescape had a significant impact on satisfaction. It was found that the better program environments in cruse ship, the higher the satisfaction of cruise travelers. Fourth, satisfaction was found to have a significant effect on repurchase intention and word of mouth intention.
The implications of this study are as follows. First, in previous studies on cruise servicescape, cruise servicescape was divided into physical servicescape and social servicescape, but in this study, the program servicescape was added and shows that it is one of the important element of cruse servicescape. Second, most of the previous studies related to cruise have focused on the correlation between satisfaction and behavioral intention, but in this study it is meaningful in that behavioral intention was further subdivided into repurchase intention and word of mouth intention. Third, this study has meaning in that it measured the marketing performance of individual cruise ship company by verifying customer's intention to repurchase a specific cruise brand. Fourth, with further analysis, it was revealed that short-term and long-term customers affected by servicescape differently.
This study has a limitation in that the memory of the respondents may not be accurate, This study has meaning in that it introduced the concept of program servicescape and found that the elements of servicescape have different effects depending on the duration of the cruise.