Natural Park of Tangkuban Perahu Mountain is a tourists destination in the boundary city of Subang and West Bandung which has a very beautiful natural atmosphere. The Tourists mostly come from West Java, Jabodetabek, outside West Java even another country outside Indonesia. Therefore the authors do a pre-study on tourists revisit intention of Tangkuban Perahu which produce that tourists revisit intention is low. Implementing the customer experience be expected could be increase the revisit intention to Tangkuban Perahu. This type of research is descriptive and verification, the survey method used is the systematic random sampling technique, with a sample size of 100 respondents. Data analysis technique using the multiple regression techniques. These results shows there is a partial influence customer experience consisting of comfort, education, hedonic, novelty, safety and beauty to tourists revisit intention of Tangkuban Perahu. The beauty dimension of customer experience variable got the highest score and the intention to recommend in revisit intention got the highest score.
Hiking is one of sport tourism activities popular in Indonesia, especially in West Java Province. It’s not only favored by professionals but also amateurs who are eagerly to spend their leisure time outdoors. These participants do the activity based on various motivations and preferences. Activity preferences are activities chosen by sport tourism participants and can be used as a basis for conducting market segmentation. This study was aimed to investigate dominant factors of participants’ outdoor recreation motivation and its influence on outdoor activity preferences. Quantitative research was used in this study. Data was collected from 411 respondents who hiked Ciremai Mountain and Papandayan Mountain in West Java Province. Data was analysed using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Model (SEM). Results showed that achievement, learning and sociality, independent and personal development, and relaxation formed outdoor activity motivation. The most dominant factor was learning and sociality while the least dominant was relaxation. Motivation was also proven to have a significant influence on activity preference. Most of the hikers were willing to explore and learn new things when they hiked, which can be an opportunity for the management to socialize sustainable behaviour aspect around the area.
Bandung is one of the many destinations which could be categorised as urban tourism
Tourist’s needs of hotel are going higher contributes to the development of the hotel industry in Bandung. In 2013, the number of 5-star hotel has 9 hotels. Among the nine hotels is The Trans Luxury Hotel which opened in 2012 with a 6-star hotel concept. Despite its young age, The Trans Luxury has been able to attract people to stay so the occupancy rate has been able to achieve an average occupancy rate in the city of Bandung. In a period of 20 months, the number of guests who stayed at The Trans Luxury Hotel Bandung was dominated by individual guests, as many as 64%, while the number of business guests only reached 36%. Overall, the number of individual guests who stayed at The Trans Luxury Bandung during the period May 2012 to December 2013 was as much as 43.212 persons. The number of individual guests who stayed at The Trans Luxury Hotel Bandung is still dominated by first timer guests in the amount of 63.38%, so it can be identified that the guest’s intent to return still very low. As a new hotel, The Trans Luxury Hotel Bandung also has a goal to get the loyal customers. In the process of achieving customer loyalty, The Trans Luxury trying to focus on the characteristics of loyalty, one of them with efforts to increase guest’s intent in return to stay. In order to increase the guest’s intent in return to stay, The Trans Luxury Hotel Bandung implementing marketing strategies that focus on the individual guests, one of which is to implement customer experience. In this study, the independent variable (X) which is used is the customer experience includes the physical environment and social interaction. The dependent variable (Y) is revisit intention. This type of research is descriptive verification, and the method used was a survey with simple random sampling technique, and then obtained a total sample of 100 respondents. Techniques of data analysis and hypothesis testing used is a multiple linear regression analysis. The results showed that there is a strong relationship between customer experience with revisit intention which is equal to 0.658 and simultaneously the customer experience effect on revisit intention of 43.3%.
Saung Angklung Udjo is one of the tourist destinations in Bandung city, which has a complete cultural workshop contains performances, handicraft centers of bamboo and bamboo musical instrument workshop. Tourist of Saung Angklung Udjo comes from outside West Java even abroad. The researcher did a pre-research to Indonesian tourists on their behavioral intention at Saung Angklung Udjo. The result indicated that there was low intention to visit the destination. Saung Angklung Udjo provides a different experience to tourists, which implementing a customer experience strategy that consists of the physical environment and social interaction. The purpose of this study was to obtain findings on customer experience as the independent variable which consists of the physical environment and the social interaction. Moreover, the behavioral intention as a dependent variable which consists of repurchase intention, premium price and word of mouth were studied. The type of research was a descriptive and verification, using a questionnaire as the instrument that distributed to 100 respondents through systematic random sampling technique. The data were analysed using a multiple regression techniques. The results indicated that there was a partial and simultaneous influence of customer experience for the tourist behavioral intention. The physical environment resembled in the musical instrument was perceived as a high value by the respondents. The hospitality of the employee as the social interaction dimension has also perceived well by the respondents.
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