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Market segmentation by consumer lifestyle in a wine tourism setting

conference contribution
posted on 2017-12-06, 00:00 authored by K Simpson, Philip Bretherton
The generic marketing literature contains a significant volume of reported research into the study of consumer lifestyles as a potentially valuable market segmentation technique. However, despite frequent application by the market research community, lifestyle based segmentation has been criticized for its use of lengthy questionnaires that may pose threats to research effectiveness through respondent fatigue. One alternative to the standard 'values, attitudes and lifestyle' type of survey approach is offered by the List of Values (LO V) instrument. LOV asks respondents to indicate the level of importance they attach to just nine lifestyle-based concepts, and uses these importance ratings to generate a respondent lifestyle profile. The research described in this paper uses a LOV methodology to review lifestyle characteristics of 243 visitors to a well-known wine tourism region in the North Island of New Zealand. The single largest cluster of respondents demonstrated an affinity for a 'player' lifestyle profile, attaching considerable importance to the hedonistic pursuit of pleasure while well on the way to achieving the life targets they had set for themselves; while a sizeable secondary cluster displayed a 'belonger' type of profile based on an underlying desire for conventionality and conformity. These results are compared with those obtained from previously reported LOV testing in alternative settings, and implicationsfor wine tourism marketers are explored.

Funding

Category 1 - Australian Competitive Grants (this includes ARC, NHMRC)

History

Start Page

377

End Page

385

Number of Pages

9

Start Date

2004-01-01

ISBN-10

0475122208

Location

Wellington, N.Z.

Publisher

Tourism Management Group, Victoria Management School, Victoria University of Wellington

Place of Publication

Wellington, N.Z.

Peer Reviewed

  • Yes

Open Access

  • No

External Author Affiliations

Faculty of Business and Law; TBA Research Institute;

Era Eligible

  • Yes

Name of Conference

New Zealand Tourism and Hospitality Research Conference

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