Filda RAHMIATI, Norfaridatul Akmaliah OTHMAN, Mohammed Hariri BAKRI, Yunita ISMAIL, Grace AMIN /
Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business Vol 7 No 12 (2020) 959–968
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(2020b) as information available both offline and online have
met these tourists’ expectations and can make an impression
on tourists. Additionally, studies by Gallarza et al. (2013,
2017) and Latiff and Ng (2015) emphasized that ease and
accessibility are essential for satisfied and loyal tourists.
Based on indicators, the tourism service quality match for
foreign tourist were dominated by the personnel’s behavior
(such as approachable, friendly, and respectful), also the
transportation service quality. Thus, transportation service
quality should stand alone as a variable as recommended by
Rahmiati et al. (2020b).
Tourism product availability significantly influences
tourist satisfaction. Availability of tourism products is very
important in the tourism sector and it improves tourist
satisfaction toward Indonesian tourism, the varieties of
product availability, wide selection of tour agents and tourist
products, and wide variety of amenity services as indicators
explained in this research become factors of tourist
satisfaction. Tourism product availability significantly
influence toward tourist loyalty for Indonesian tourism. It
has met their expectation and influenced tourists to return
to Indonesia in the future and recommend it to their friends
and family.
Also, foreign tourists satisfied with the availability
of tourism products in Indonesia will definitely return to
Indonesia in the future, will try more tourist products and
services, say positive things, and recommend Indonesia
to friends and family. This study strengthens the findings
from Zaenuri (2012) that the availability of tourism
products increases tourist interest and loyalty. Furthermore,
Aprilia and Pangestuti (2017) also mentioned that efforts in
enforcing quality standards for products or services are bound
to satisfy tourists. During data reduction, this variable only
needs to remove one indicator, therefore, this variable is quite
important to measure the foreign tourist perspective on the
availability of tourism products of Indonesia tourism.
Four out of the five direct effects of hypotheses (paths)
were found to be significant, with the exception being the
effect of tourism service quality on tourist loyalty with b and
p values of 0.052 and 0.453. The standardized direct effects
of tourism service quality had a positive influence on tourist
satisfaction (b = 0.415, p-value = 0.000) and tourism product
availability (b = 0.338, p-value = 0.000), respectively.
Therefore, hypotheses 1 and 2 were accepted. Furthermore,
the standardized direct effect of tourism product availability
had a positive influence on tourist loyalty (b = 0.232, p-value
= 0.000), therefore, hypotheses 4 was also accepted. The
standardized direct effect of tourist satisfaction was found
to exert a positive influence on tourist loyalty (b = 0.415,
p-value = 0.000), therefore, hypothesis 5 was accepted.
Hypothesis 6 is associated with service quality’s indirect
effect on tourist satisfaction and loyalty (b = 0.168, p-value
= 0.000). Meanwhile, hypothesis 7 is associated with the
indirect effect of product availability on tourist satisfaction
and loyalty, which showed a positive relationship (b =
0.137, p-value = 0.000). Therefore, hypothesis 6 and 7 were
supported.
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