The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Organizational Buying Behaviour: MICE in Three-Star Hotel from Indonesia
- DOI
- 10.2991/978-94-6463-216-3_7How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- COVID-19. MICE; hotel; organizational buying behavior
- Abstract
During pandemic, hotel is suffering from low occupancy rates that hotel cannot solely rely on the room sales. MICE as another product of hotel is identified as alternative revenue stream that can be focused on for hotel to survive. This study aims to analyze the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on organizational buying behavior of B2B segment for MICE in a hotel. In-depth interview as one of the methods of qualitative research was conducted for this research to five different B2B segments (Government, Logistic and Construction Company, Wedding Organizer, Event Organizer and Travel Agent). The result shows that Government is having hard time for MICE event due the strict regulation and the cut off in budgeting, Logistic and Construction also avoid MICE event due the budget efficiency, Travel Agent is less focused on MICE as the demand from client decreased. However, Wedding Organizer shift into intimate wedding event and how Event Organizer is helped by the emergence of virtual and hybrid event that’s marked as new era of MICE event during pandemic. The customer during pandemic is focusing more onto the health certification and protocol, internet and budget, customer prefer hotel who can show the credibility in applying health protocol, ability to provide adequate internet bandwidth and offer affordable price.
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TY - CONF AU - Suci Pebrianti Putri AU - Atik Aprianingsih PY - 2023 DA - 2023/07/31 TI - The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Organizational Buying Behaviour: MICE in Three-Star Hotel from Indonesia BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Business and Engineering Management (ICONBEM 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 78 EP - 88 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-216-3_7 DO - 10.2991/978-94-6463-216-3_7 ID - Putri2023 ER -