Abstract:
The objectives of this research were to study 1. branding process for Bangsaen 42 Chonburi Marathon activities, 2. marketing communication perceptions and brand personality in Bangsaen 42 Chonburi Marathon activities and 3. the relationship between perception of marketing communication and brand personality of Bangsaen 42 Chonburi Marathon activities. This is a mixed method research which is qualitative research using in-depth interviews with 3 key informants and quantitative research using the survey method with questionnaires with confidence values of 0.94 and 0.96 from a sample group of 400 runners at the Bangsaen 42 Chonburi Marathon. The sample was chosen without probabilities using a specific sample. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson's correlation statistics. The significance level was set at 0.05.
The results were found as follows:
1. The Bangsaen 42 Chonburi Marathon event has a brand building process in 3 steps 1.1. strategic brand analysis, which is to analyze the needs of runners, analyze the marathon events in Thailand and analyze their own brand strengths, 1.2 creating a brand identity which is the only marathon running event in Thailand that has a world-class standard by placing the main idea as "The Passion of World-Class Marathon" and presenting the brand's value as You will run a full marathon with world-class standards and 1.3 bringing the brand identity implementation system to create a brand which is the World-Class Marathon by communicating through various media to see the management that good and is a world-class running event.
2. The sample group perceived marketing communication at a moderate level. And the brand personality perception of the Bangsaen 42 Chonburi Marathon event was in the personality of the most competence.
3. The relationship between the marketing communication of Bangsaen 42 Chonburi Marathon activities and the perception of the sincere personality dimension (Sincerity) was positively correlated. The correlation coefficient at the 0.46 level was statistically significant at 0.05.