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Customer Relationship Marketing by Destination Marketing Organizations: Does it lead to favorable behavioral intentions to meeting planners?
| Title: | Customer Relationship Marketing by Destination Marketing Organizations: Does it lead to favorable behavioral intentions to meeting planners?. |
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| Name(s): |
Lee, Jumyong, Author Breiter, Deborah, Committee Chair Wang, Youcheng, Committee Member Kwun, David, Committee Member Boote, David, Committee Member Ro, Hee Jung, Committee Member Love, Curtis, Committee Member University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Date Issued: | 2011 | |
| Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | In convention market, one of the fastest growing sectors in hospitality industry, meeting planners play an important role to select a destination for their event. Therefore, a good relationship with them can be a competitive advantage for a convention destination considering a fierce competition among the destinations. The objective of this study is to develop an empirically valid relationship marketing (RM) model that would verify the antecedents, mediators, and consequence of the relationship between the destination marketing organization (DMO) and meeting planners. This study found three antecedents (i.e., customer orientation, familiarity, and reputation) of the RM mediating constructs that consist of satisfaction, trust, and commitment as well as consequence (i.e. behavioral intention) led by the RM mediators based on review of the literature. Therefore, the hypothesized relationships 1) between the antecedents and the mediators, 2) between the mediators, 3) and 3) between the mediators and the consequence in the model were tested by using structural equation modeling (SEM) with LISREL results. Eight out of eleven hypotheses were supported by the examination of path coefficients while 33 observed indicators were confirmed in the measurement model through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The SEM results showed the significant relationships that lead to meaningful implications in both industry and academia while this study is not immune to limitations that can be the starting points of recommendations for future studies. | |
| Identifier: | CFE0004126 (IID), ucf:49122 (fedora) | |
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2011-12-01 Ph.D. Education, Dean's Office EDUC Doctoral This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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| Subject(s): | relationship marketing -- DMO -- CVB -- CRM -- customer orientation -- meeting planner -- behavioral intention | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004126 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | public 2011-12-15 | |
| Host Institution: | UCF |
