Abstract:
This research has the objective to study service marketing mix factor and external organizational factor that affect the satisfaction in duty free service at Lamchabang Port, Chonburi to find a way to plan, improve, adjust, and develop the duty free service at Lamchabang Port, Chonburi. This is a qualitative research using in-depth interview from 4 departments and 18 people; 4 government officials, 2 import-export entrepreneurs, 10 import-export representatives, and 2 BOI employees. This study finds that duty free area at Lamchabang Port, Chonburi should pay attention to 7 service marketing mix factor, namely, product, price, place, promotion, personnel, process, and physical characteristic. This is because they affect the satisfaction of service at duty free area at Lamchabang Port, Chonburi. That makes entrepreneurs satisfied and come to use the duty free service more and more. Furthermore, this study also reveals that external factor is important and affects the usage of duty free area at Lamchabang Port, Chonburi. All 4 external organizational factors which are (1) economics, (2) politics, (3) social, and (4) technology, especially economics are highly important when compared to other external organizational factors. Therefore, the company should find a way to plan, adjust, improve, and develop the duty free service at Lamchabang Port, Chonburi for the better to cope with other uncontrollable external organizational factors.