Abstract:
The purpose of this research studies as follow; (I) to study the factors that affecting to the decision making process of Thai tourists for purchasing travel package to South Korea and (2) to analyze how to develop the service marketing mix (7Ps: product, price, place, promotion, people, process, physical evidence) in tourist business. The researcher used questionnaires which were the research tool for collecting the data. The sample size in the research comprised of 400 respondents who are Thai people. The researcher used convenience sampling method, and analyzed the data by descriptive statistic, frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, Anova, and Pearsons Correlation Coefficient.
The results were as follow; (I) most of the respondents were female, 20-30 years old, company employees, earned less than 15,000 baht per month, bachelor degree (2) most significance of the service marketing mix is people (service personnel) (3) most significance of the travelling factors is geography of South Korea
The hypothesis test were as follow; (1) for demographic profile factors, the education level of tourists was effected to the purchasing decision making process (2) every factor of service marketing mix (7Ps: product, price, place, promotion, people, process, physical evidence) was correlated to the purchasing decision making process (3) for travelling factors, geography, climate, exchange rate, culture and history, top tourist destinations, and tourist public relation was correlated to purchasing decision making process.
Keywords: Decision Making Process, Travel Package, South Korea.