The Effect of Hotel Brand Experience on Brand Trust, Brand Attachment and Brand Commitment

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to investigate the effect of experience in hotel on brand trust, brand attachment and brand commitment. It aims to contribute hotel brand marketing from analyzing and showing how brand experience factors affect brand equity factors. The findings and implications can be summarized as follows: the factor Sense Experience, Feel Experience, Act Experience and Think Experience of Brand Experience caused the positive impact on brand trust and brand attachment. Second, brand trust has a significant impact on brand attachment. Third, brand trust and brand attachment both caused a positive impact on brand commitment. Thus, the hotel managers need to establish a ongoing brand experiential marketing strategy which can improve brand commitment of hotel and ways to be recognized as motivational factors for offered services and products which customer can perceive and experience.