| dc.description.abstract | Marketing mix, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty represent a linear relationship among variables, by giving customer memorable experiences hotel operators can build emotional feelings toward their customers and thus create customer satisfaction that will eventually lead to customer loyalty. The hotel industry falls into major service with acompanying minor goods and service in the service mix category, where there are services together with product. Elmi Hotel meets its customers’ expectation and gives them individual satisfaction in the form of personalized customer experience with the help of the suitable marketing mix. The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between marketing mix, that consists of product, price, place, promotion, people, process and physical evidence, on customer loyalty through customer satisfaction.
Questionnaires were distributed to 120 respondents that represent staying customers of Elmi Hotel meeting certain sample characteristics, this was done as primary data collecting procedure to support this study. Literature and journal review as well as other data was also done as secondary data collecting procedure. The results were then analized using Struktural Equation Modeling (SEM) and using AMOS.
Based on the results of the study it is proven that product, price, place, promotion, people, process and physical evidence can positively affect customer satisfaction and that customer satisfaction can positively affect customer loyalty. Out of the seven marketing mix observed, place and people are the ones that give the biggest effect on customer loyalty with the positive indirect effect of 24,1% and 20,1%, respectively. Customer satisfaction also has positive direct effect of 61,8% to customer loyalty. | en_US |
