Abstract:
Purpose. The purpose of this research was to study the factors affecting decision making on credit card usage with tourism business for Thai tourists in Bangkok Metropolis. Methods. The samples were 400 Thai tourists who were the credit cardholder more than 1 card and have experienced with credit card usage in tourism businesses including accommodation business, transport business and travel agency business. This research adopted questionnaires as a main method of data collection. The result of content validity test was 0.94 and content reliability test was 0.82. The statistical data analysis in this study used frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and multiple linear regression with the statistically significance at 0.01. Result. The findings showed that most of Thai tourists living in Bangkok make their payment for accommodation via online channel. Overall level of opinion towards 4 factors influencing on decision making is high. Those factors mainly consist of image and card issuer factor, type and characteristic of credit card factor, merchant tie-up promotion factor and card issuer initiated promotion factor. The 4 factors have extensively influenced on decision making of Thai tourists in Bangkok on credit card usage in tourism businesses (R2 = 0.404) with statistically significance at 0.01. Conclusion. Image and card issuer factor, type and characteristic of credit card factor, merchant tie-up promotion factor and card issuer initiated promotion factor have significantly influenced on decision making on credit card usage with tourism businesses for Thai tourists in Bangkok