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Chapter 4
Consumer Markets and Consumer Buying
Behavior
Outline
A model of consumer behavior
Personal characteristics affecting consumer
behavior
Consumer involvement in the buying decision
Purchasing decision process
Learning
Lifestyles
Membership groups
Motives and
motivation
Opinion leaders
Perception
Personality
Psychographics
Reference groups
Role
Self-concept
Social class
Chapter 4
Consumer Markets and Consumer Buying
Behavior
Personal Factors Affecting Consumer Behavior
Cultural
Social
Personal
Psychological
Chapter 4 Objectives
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Chapter 4
Consumer Markets and Consumer Buying
Behavior
Model of Consumer Behavior
Marketing stimuli (product, price, place,
promotion)
Other stimuli (economic, technological,
political, cultural)
Buyers black box (buyer characteristics and
buyer decision process)
Buyers responses (product choice, brand
choice, dealer choice, purchase timing,
purchase amount)
Chapter 4
Consumer Markets and Consumer Buying
Behavior
Cultural Factors
Culture is the most basic determinant of a
persons wants and behavior, comprising the
basic values, perceptions, wants, and
behaviors that a person learns continuously
in a society.
International cultures: the values, attitudes, and
behaviors can vary dramatically by country.
Social class: relatively permanent and ordered
divisions in a society whose members share similar
values, interests, and behaviors.
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Chapter 4
Consumer Markets and Consumer Buying
Behavior
Chapter 4
Consumer Markets and Consumer Buying
Behavior
Social Factors
Groups and reference groups: serve as a point
of reference in forming a persons attitudes
and behaviors.
Family: the most important consumer-buying
organization in American society.
Roles and status: activities that a person is
expected to perform according to the persons
around him or her, and the esteem (status)
given to the roles by society.
Personal Factors
Chapter 4
Consumer Markets and Consumer Buying
Behavior
Chapter 4
Consumer Markets and Consumer Buying
Behavior
Psychological Factors
Motivation
Perception
Learning
Beliefs and attitudes
WHO
WHERE
WHAT
WHY
WHEN
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2.
3.
4.
5.
Need recognition
Information search
Evaluation of alternatives
Purchase decision
Post-purchase behavior
FIVE Ws
WHO?
Who will be staying at the hotel?
How many guest or attendees?
What is their nature of their organization or group?
WHAT?
What would they like to do or see?
What is their budget?
WHEN?
When will they arrive?
How many days will they stay?
When will they depart?
WHERE?
Where in the hotel would they prefer to stay?
Which meeting or banquet rooms will they need?
What activities or tours they might desire?
WHY?
Why will the group be staying in the hotel?
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destination
Five stages
Selection
Consistent quality
experience
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TOURISM TYPOLOGIES
Five distinct types of people who experience travel in different ways
regardless of origin or destination
GALLUP ORGANISATION
Adventurers (44%(44%- 18
18--34 yrs)
Meet new people and experience different cultures
Worriers
Afraid to fly, less educated and affluent, travel domestically, female (half over
the age of 50)
Dreamers (women(women-50 +)
Oriented towards relaxation than adventure, modest income/education, rely
on maps and guidebooks
Economisers
Seek value in travel and do not pay extra for specialist amenities and
services/men with average income level and education
Indulgers
Willing to pay for additional comfort and service when they travel
Equally divided between men and women
Motivations to travel
Traveller typologies
ALLOCENTRICS
Explorer type of person who seeks underdeveloped and
unspoilt destinations
PSYCHOCENTRICS
Not at all adventuresome, seeking the familiar rather
than the unusual
MIDCENTRICS
Those who lie somewhere in the middle of the
spectrum
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4. Lifestyle
By profiling groups of people by the way they live, it is
possible to predict their travel motivations and
purchases
Fulfilled
Achievers
Strivers
Experiencers
Believers
Makers
Actualisers Strugglers
5. Life Cycle
Travel patterns and destinations vary as people move
their life cycle
6. Reference groups
Sharing values and expectations with others in a variety
of social groups
Awareness
Physical/physiological motives
Resting/relaxing/generally unwinding from stress of everyday life
Attitude development
Evaluation of alternatives
Purchase
Entertainment/amusement/pleasure/pastime motives
Visiting theme parks, watching sport, undertake leisure shopping
Religious motives
Participating in pilgrimages
Undertaking retreats for meditation and study
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1. Demographic/economic/social position
ROLE ADOPTION
1. Initiator: sees the need to satisfy a desire for travel
2. Influencer: expresses preferences in choice
location
3. Decider: financial control
4. Buyer: visits the travel agent and sorts details
PROJECT
PROJECT