Authors: Theodossiou George, Thanou Eleni, Kallivokas Dimitrios
The present paper is the first of a series of research papers that aims to investigate the structure and quality of the "Greek touristic product" in the context of a global competitive industry, identifying strengths and weaknesses and proposing appropriate marketing responses. The paper focuses on Santorini island, 16th tourist destination in Europe, examining the degree of satisfaction of the island's visitors. The research is based on primary data, collected through a questionnaire addressed to departing tourists who had spent at least 5 days on the island and had stayed in a tourist accommodation unit. The sample was compiled with the multistage random sampling method. A number of hypotheses were tested in order to investigate differentiations in tourist satisfaction responses among country of origin, income, age, individual or agency travel and type of accommodation used. Our findings indicate an overall high level of satisfaction in most areas. The highest ratings were associated with private sector offerings (hotels, restaurants, friendliness/attitude of the local residents) against lower ratings received on public infrastructure items. Lastly, the responses were analyzed with the SPSS statistical package, using mainly the t-tests to discover statistically significant variations in the responses of different sub-groups of our sample. The main difference was found among those that stayed in hotel rooms vs. staying in rented rooms/ apartments, with the former belonging to higher income groups and expressing higher satisfaction both for their accommodation as with other aspects of the tourist product. The conclusion is that Santorini's tourist product is best suited to those with higher holiday budget, and marketing efforts as well as improvement of the tourist experience offering must continue to focus on this segment in order to maximize both tourist satisfaction and the sector's income.
Comments: 19 Pages. Published in The Hellenic Open Business Administration Journal; https://hobajournal.wordpress.com/
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