The Tourism Studies
Online ISSN : 2189-7530
Print ISSN : 1342-0208
ISSN-L : 1342-0208
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Segmentation Using Personal Values and Geographic Variables : Cross-cutural Comparison between Japan and Korea
Kyu-Whan CHOI
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2000 Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 9-18

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It is reported that the customers are influenced by psychological aspect because hotel product has its characteristic of intangible. Thus the use of psychographics as hotel choice behavior and market segmentation criteria is continuously increasing in the hope that psychographics explaine more observed behavioral variation than demographic or socioeconomic variables in hotel industry. In this study, it has been investigated that the effectiveness of personal values and geographic variables as explainable factor in hotel choice behavior and market segmentation.
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© 2000 Japan Institute of Tourism Research
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