Browsing by Author "Nilushika, S.L."

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    Planning Eco-friendly Wedding Events (with special reference to event organizers in Colombo district)
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2018) Nilushika, S.L.; Damunupola, D.A.K.; Sutha, J.
    Wedding is a very important event in human life. However, weddings generate a considerable amount of waste to the environment. The remarkable increase of the event specific waste tracking and environmental impact have been discussed in detail in recent studies. Presently, the world trend is to celebrate the weddings in eco-friendly manner. But, the attention for planning eco-friendly weddings is less in published academic literature. Sri Lankan wedding industry showed a few evidences for eco-friendly weddings. Hence, the primary objective of the study is to identify the potential factors that induce the event organizers to practice ecofriendly weddings. The secondary objective is to identify the potential consequences and to identify the best practices of planning eco-friendly weddings in Sri Lanka. Qualitative method and thematic analysis was used to provide a general idea related to the objectives by categorizing the data into fourteen themes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted among the selected event organizers. The study suggests that the inducing factors such as government support and communication should be enhanced and the awareness and consideration should be improved lowering the environmental impact of events. However, it is important to note that in the commercial world, the best approach is to adopt the practices that provide benefits to the businesses, the consumer and the environment.
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    Planning Eco-Friendly Wedding Events in Sri Lanka (With Special Reference to Event Organizers in Colombo District)
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2017) Nilushika, S.L.
    With the growth of the tourism hotel industry is also growing and as the commercial hub in Sri Lanka, Colombo has most accommodation facilities. So to generate more income customer loyalty is very important and marketing practices are important for that. The study reports the effect of customer relationship marketing practices on customer loyalty in five star hotels in Colombo district. Some researchers' have Argive that customer relationship marketing practices have an influence on customer loyalty while some are not, which makes a gap between those arguments. Objectives of the study are, identify the customer relationship marketing practices and how those practices influence on customer loyalty. A questionnaire has been derived from the literature review and has completed those by 100 customers who got the service from those hotels. Descriptive statistics, correlation and regression analysis were used to analyze the data with the support of SPSS 21 version. Descriptive statistics has implied existing customer relationship marketing practices and customer loyalty. Correlation analysis has shown the strong positive relationship between the independent and dependent variables. In addition multiple linear regression analysis has confirmed that, all the customer relationship marketing practices which are trust, commitment, social bonding, communication and empathy are highly significant for the model. Out of all five independent variables social bonding can be identify the most influencing factor to the customer loyalty. Apart from extending knowledge on relationship marketing practices into a domain without having much empirical work, the study also provides hotel managers with practical ways of implementing customer relationship marketing practices when achieving customer loyalty. The findings also suggest that hotels can create loyal customers by exhibiting trustworthy behaviors, communicating information to customers efficiently and accurately, delivering a quality services and improving overall customer relationship quality.