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The local professional health clubs are getting prosperous. How do the health club managers keep good relations with their customers? It’s worthy of examining it. The past research works have conducted with different aspects except the store image issue. Due to the health club chains in metropolitan area are increasing and yielding a lot of members than before, managers should be exigent to strengthen the store image. The main purposes in this research are to study the health club chain store image, the member loyalty, and the relation between those above. The research collected 477 effective questionnaires from examinees, who are members of Alexander Health Club, California Fitness Center, Super-shape Health Club, Youth-camp Health Club and Play-up Health Club. The statistical results were found as follows: 1.The health club chain members all emphasize on the attributes of servants’ attitude and profession. Most of them were satisfied with the factors of mass transportation and services. 2.The store image and member loyalty were positively correlated. 3.The members’ life styles are divided into five categories:fashion lover, rational person, convenience seeker, informed shopper and conservative. 4.Different health club chain members’ demographic and life style variables have an impact on the store image judgment. 5.Different health club chain members’ demographic and life style variables have an impact on the member loyalty. The study suggest the four recommendations for the health club chain stores reference: 1.Make the price more reasonable and the quality excellent with less money. 2.Set up and promote the free service line to hear the complaints of members; then the health clubs can improve the service systems. 3.Solve the problem of few parking spaces nearby to enhance the usage of the health clubs. 4.Strengthen the customized service to effect the customer relationship management. Finally, the study found an interesting result that there is a significant relevance between the store image and the member loyalty.
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