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Factors Affecting Motivation and
Customer Experience of Medical
Tourism: Case Study of Plastic Surgeries
in South Korea.
Ivanova Maria
Higher Diploma in International Hotel and Tourism Management
HTMi Switzerland
Introduction
Lately, medical tourism became very popular among travellers and moreover,
they pursue the value of money and quality (Bristow et al. 2011). Plastic
surgeries are one of the reasons for medical tourism nowadays. Moreover, plastic
surgeries have increased its popularity recently (Park et al., 2009). South Korea
is now promoted as the best destination to travel for plastic surgeries (Tang,
undated). It is also stated that tourist choose South Korea because it’s cheap and
qualitative (Ibid). Therefore the author has chosen South Korea as a case study in
the research paper. In modern and dynamic tourism industry it is an essence to
evaluate the motivators of people travelling. According to Gnoth (1997), in
tourism management it is very important and useful to understand the
motivations of travellers to visit a certain country for particular reason.
Moreover, Swarbrooke and Horner (2007) add that numerous motivators always
affect the tourists. Additionally, various tourists travelling for the same reason
may have different motivators (Ibid). According to Rice (1997, p.117),
“Motivation is the mixture of wants, needs and drives within the individual
which seek gratification through the acquisition of some experience or object”.
Moreover there are different theories, which can be applied for the motivation
and customer experience. Oh and Pizam (2008) evaluated that the motivation of
tourists should be criticised by push and pull theory. Nonetheless, Gnoth (1997)
additionally suggest drive theory and expectancy theory as a motivation process.
Moreover he applies drive theory as an emotional motivation and expectancy
theory as cognitive. Therefore, there are various kinds of motivations, which can
be specifically explaining the reasons and behaviour of tourists.
When a traveller has decided on the destination and purpose of going the actual
consumer experience starts (Hanefors and Mossberg, 1998). Plastic surgeries are
very famous among all genders and generations nowadays. Nonetheless, not
much research has been done on motivation of consumers to travel to South
Korea for plastic surgeries’ services. Handley (2010) has researched on how
medical tourism makes South Korea sustainable country. In sciencedirect.com
researcher has found many papers about rural tourism in South Korea, but not
much about medical tourism. According to Yu and Ko (2012), there is a gap in
research on medical tourism in South Korea. Motivation and customer
experience was in a great study at all times. “…Many researchers seek a
continuum construct to explain tourist motivations”(Woodside and Martin, 2008,
p.21). In our modern 21st century it is needed to understand your customers’
motivation and to evaluate the post-purchase experience. According to Bansal
and Eiselt(2003), there is a great section of research where the motivation and
decision making is highly discussed. Nonetheless, there are not enough studies
about motivation for medical tourism, even though the concern about medical
tourism is growing rapidly in past few years (Yu and Ko, 2011). It is considered
that the more studies will be done on this topic the more tourists will receive
greater level satisfaction and future perception of the country, as the country will
know the wants and needs of tourists (Yu and Ko, 2011). Furthermore, Wongkit
and McKercher (2013) add that there is only a little research has been done
which goes in more details for medical tourism.
Motivation and Customer Experience – Definitions and Concepts
Tourist’s Motivation Process
Motivation is an influencing factor on the behaviour of the consumer (Prebensen
et al., 2012). Gnoth (1997) distinguish motive and motivation; referring to him,
motive is what induces person to commit an activity, whether motivation always
include the object of the activity. Moreover Solomon et al. (2006) evaluate
motivation as guidance of consumer. According to Yoon and Uysal (2005)
motivation is a response to wants and needs of the consumer. A lot of subjects
describe motivation from different angles. Parks and Guay (2009) consider
motivation in two ways: conscious and unconscious. Meanwhile, Gnoth (1997)
view motivation as cognitive or emotional process. Moreover, there is a process
of motivation suggested by Graham and Weiner (undated); Parks and Guay
(2009); Gnoth (1997). They divide the process of motivation into five elements:
choice of behaviour, latency of behaviour, intensity of behaviour, persistence of
behaviour and conscious or unconscious reactions. All these elements have a
great affection on the motivation of a person as it measures the purpose, the
effort given to achieve the goal, how well can he/she last to reach the desirable
outcome and the behaviour after the result is achieved (Ibid). However, Hoyer et
al. (2013) examine four factors influencing motivation: personal importance,
values, needs and goals of the consumer, risk of the activity and reasonable
incompatibility with the position of the consumer. Besides these two theories,
Schiffman and Kanuk (2010) appraise movement of the motivation process. They
assert that needs can be never appeased, novel needs appear when auld ones are
satisfied and achievement or setback will affect the set goals.
It is really important to understand the motivation of tourists and process of
their thinking to choose this particular destination and what affected their
decision (Prebensen et al., 2012).
Consumer Motivation Theories
There are different types of motivators which make tourist travel (Swarbrooke
and Horner, 2007). Various authors and researcher suggest several theories.
Moreover, particular type of tourism is approached by numerous theories of
tourist motivation. “Push and pull factors are central concepts in tourist
motivation literature” (Pesonen, 2011, p.71). Klenosky (2002) and Gnoth (1997)
claim that in every tourists’ decision making process there is a pull and push
factor. Moreover Murray (1938) cited Gnoth (1997) interprets these two factors
as “need” and “press”. Kim and Lee (2000) discovered that there is always a link
between push and pull factors. Push factors in tourism industry are inside factors
which are influencing traveller to proceed a holiday, whether pull factors are
outer-directed and make a traveller to choose a particular destination over some
other country (Gnoth, 1997; Klenosky, 2002; Yoon and Uysal, 2005). Moreover,
Pesonen (2011) considers pull factors in tourism as a magnetism of the
destination. To the author’s point of view push and pull theory is more applicable
to this case, as in medical tourism motivation there are external and internal
factors, which affects their decision.
Figure 1: Expectancy Theory (Vroom, 1964)
Another theory suggested by Vroom (1964) citied Lee (2007) is expectancy
theory. Weber (1997) evaluated expectation as one of the most influencing
motive to travel. Pizam and Milman (1993) explain expectancy theory as a
tourist’s perception about destination. Moreover, Schiffman and Kanuk (2010)
elaborate expectancy theory as a previous experience of a traveller in a past.
According to Shiffman and Kanuk (2010, p.181), “In a marketing context, people
tend to perceive products attributes to their own expectations”. Lee (2007)
stated that expectancy theory also appears to generate a positive result in a
tourist’s perception. Moreover Gnoth (1997) stated that expectancy theory is a
cognitive process as it includes thinking and rationale deliberation. Expectancy
theory consists of three main inseparable parts that will lead to motivation:
expectancy, instrumentality and valence (Shepperd and Taylor, 1999; Lambright,
2010). Instrumentality is one of the components of this theory (Vroom, 1964
citied Lee, 2007); it is a measure of chances that the outcome will be according to
the tourist’s perception. Valence belongs to values formatted by a tourist about
destination and how the goal of the consumer is achieved by this particular
destination (Ibid).
Expectancy theory is very important in tourism as it is also composing from the
opinions of other people travelling to the same destination, therefore the
expectations will increase and wants of the consumer will raise as well
(Schiffman and Kanuk, 2010); hence the destination have to satisfy these needs
and wants to gain trust from the customer.
Formation of customer experience and its affect on customer satisfaction
Satisfaction is very demanding and broad process (Bosque and Martin, 2008).
Experience of the tourist in particular destination plays a great role in forming
satisfaction (Meng et al., 2008). Satisfaction is a fulfilment of customer needs and
posterior assessment of the experience gained during stay in destination
(Sanchez et al., 2006). According to Devesa et al. (2010) satisfaction and
motivation are main measures in tourist’s behaviour. Moreover, Chi and Qu
(2008) regard gratification and consumer participation in the process of
travelling as inseparable elements. Consumer experience has a great influence on
the tourist’s satisfaction and creates a perception of the destination. Hoyer et al.
(2013) wrote that there could be satisfaction as well as dissatisfaction of the
destination. Consumers are pursuing of exclusive experience from their
travelling (Rageh et al., 2013). Martin-Ruiz et al. (2011) include service
experience, service value, quality, convenience and price as major components in
creation of customer experience. Experience in the same destination may vary
according to the type of tourist (Sheng and Chen, 2013; Chang and Horng, 2010).
Moreover consumer experience is very individual process (Ibid).
Moreover they say that expectations of the tourist are an essential part of the
whole experience. Scheng and Chen (2013) break down experience into two
parts: active and passive. According to them, active includes replenishment of
knowledge and development of intelligence, while passive is more about leisure.
Satisfaction appears during and after the experience. Tourist’s satisfaction
depends on the quality of service and provision of the goods (Kim, 2011).
Experience and satisfaction of the tourists is very important to the destination as
the perceptions are being created during these two processes and it has to take
into consideration all needs and wants of the traveller.
Review of existing empirical research in medical tourism
motivation
Segmentation by motivation in healthcare and spa tourism
According to Bieger and Laesser (2002), segmentation is very important in
tourism industry. Rid et al. (2013) explain that motivation is one of the factors to
be included in the segmentation process. Dubai Department of Tourism &
Commerce Marketing (2012) indicates spa tourism as part of medical tourism.
Erdeli (2011) divide travellers according to the various types of spas, therefore
they can achieve higher percentage of tourists basing on their motivation: spas
for debilitated care, for cardio care, for breathing issues, alimentary issues and
for nervous disorders. According to Mak et al. (2008), there are a huge variety of
motives, which are driving people to travel. First is recreation, therefore they
assume that the segment is business or employed people who are seeking for
escape and relaxation (Ibid).
Tawil (2011) states that the motivation of the luxurious people is better facilities
and quality service. Moreover, he adds that these people are usually less price
sensitive. Chen et al. (2013) made a research of what is the motivation of elder
travellers. He found out that the main motive of them is seeking of health
treatments. Another factor, which was taken into consideration, was the
provision of a warm atmosphere. Pesonen et al. (2011) have created different
clusters according to types of travellers. Outdoor travellers are seeking for joyful
and recreational spa experiences, whether vacationists are motivated by the idea
to get the services of sauna. Moreover, the main motive of heritage tourists is
hygiene of spa services (Ibid). Therefore, motivation is very important to study
to better segment country’s target and achieve higher levels of satisfaction (Beh
and Bruyere, 2007).
Motivation in medical tourism
As stated by Li et al. (2013), if the country or the companies are aware of the
motivation of the travellers or guests, they may better interpret their consumers’
behaviour. The learning process of the consumer is a key success to satisfy
his/her needs (Ibid). According to Chen et al. (2013) there are several motivators
of medical tourists; the main are: enjoyment, pleasure and practice of various
services. Another leading motivators suggested by Singh (2013) include: price of
medical services, confidentiality of treatments, and certification of specialists.
However, Laesser (2011) have mentioned that the main factor affecting the
motivation of medical tourists is to care or improve something in their
appearance. Another important motivation was to feel comfortable in the
medical destination environment (Ibid).
Two of the dominant factors in medical travellers’ motivation were prestige and
notoriety of the destination (Ye et al., 2011). Also they added that the personnel
play a great role in deciding whether to go or no. Four motivators were
presented by Jotikasthira (2010): to recover and heal the sickness, to receive the
services of plastic incision, to get therapeutic check up and to correct and
enhance the overall well-being. Musa et al. (2011) identified five main factors,
which analyse the motivation precisely: how good is the assistance, the cost,
spiritual aspect, cultural aspect and the additional services provide. The most
important factor influencing the motivation is the quality of service: the history
of the destination about medical tourism, accessibility, the variety of serviced
provided and the reputation of the destination (Ibid). There are plenty of
motivators, which are affecting traveller decision. Moreover, Farmaki (2012)
stated that the motivation is considered to internal as well as external; therefore
it is important to know how to affect the tourist motives for travelling.
Conclusion and Recommendations
To conclude everything from above, motivation drives people to act (Schiffman
and Kanuk, 2010). Motivation is the phenomena, which gives us an answer on
why people do something (Williams, 2002) and makes it clearer to recognize the
reasons behind (Kay, 2003). According to Williams (2002), products, in this case
services, have a special value to the consumer, therefore it will create an
experience afterwards. Besides, destination perception plays a great role in
consumers’ motivation (Nicoletta and Servidio, 2012). The author has
researched on the motivation, customer experience and satisfaction as well as
two theories on the motivation in this paper.
Expectancy theory and push and pull theory (Gnoth, 1997, Vroom, 1964 cited in
Lee, 2007) are the theories which are mostly applicable to examine motivation of
the tourists (Kay, 2003). Nonetheless, there can be still a gap in understanding
human’s motivation to travel (Ibid). It is important to understand motivation and
experience of the customer, so South Korea may increase the quality of the
services. The author recommends to broad this topic and does more research to
those who are interested in this study. There are several people who may benefit
from this study: national tourism board of South Korea, researchers on
motivation and people who are interested in consumer behaviour.
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