Abstract:
This research aims (1) To explore the customers of Buriram united football club who interested in buying souvenir at shop in Buriram province. (2) To explore the behavior and the reason in buying souvenirs of Buriram United football club and (3) To study the customers attitude of purchasing decision and the decision to purchase the souvenirs of the Buriram united football club. Data are collected from 400 customers who buy Buriram united football clubs souvenirs by using the questionnaire. Moreover, the questionnaire for surveyed the customer of Buriram United Football Club to analyze the data.
The findings show that most respondents are female and they have income between 15,001-21,000 baht per month. They are 19-30 years old, graduate in Bachelor degree and they are government officers or state enterprise officers. Besides, their hometown are in Buriram province (66.00%) and most of them are interested in sport.
Furthermore, most respondents buy Buriram united football clubs souvenirs because it is their favorite club. The majority of respondents are not the tourists who travel in Buriram province and use to purchase Buriram united football clubs souvenir before. The most popular product for them is football shirts which have price ranging from 401-1000 baht for two pieces. However the majority of respondents will use these souvenirs to support the Buriram united football club.
Moreover, the respondents attitudes towards decision of buying the Buriram united football clubs souvenirs find that they have a great deal of attitude towards products, channel of distribution, Buriram united football club, service, price and promotion.
In addition the result of the data analysis in comparing decision of customers attitudes find that the customers who have different income, age, education level, career, background and interests in sport have different attitudes towards purchasing product of Buriram United Club at statistically significant in general. However, sex of customers and attitudes towards purchasing product of Buriram United Club are not different at statistically significant in general.
Furthermore, the result of comparing customers behavior and attitude towards purchasing decision find that most of customers who have different tourist behavior and different products purchasing, purchasing cost, purchasing capacity, and co-decision to purchase have different attitudes towards purchasing product of Buriram united club at .05 level of statistically significant. However, most customers who have different reasons to purchase, chance to make a purchase, and many product categories purchase are not different from the attitudes towards purchasing product of Buriram united club.
According to the results of this study, it can be used as a guideline for the souvenir tourism development for Buriram united clubs. The guideline suggests that the marketing strategies which are product, price, place, promotion and product quality have to improve for the effectiveness of souvenir tourism management in the future.