E-Journal of Tourism Vol.9. No.1. (2022): 1-7 http://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/eot 1 e-ISSN 2407-392X. p-ISSN 2541-0857 The Analysis of Determinant Factors of Customer Preferences on Café as a Culinary Tourism Destination in Malang Nonny Aji Sunaryo*, Mazarina Devi, Laili Hidayati, Zorayda Nabila Denata, Firlia Wahyu Puspitasari Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia *Corresponding Author: nonny.sunaryo.ft@um.ac.id DOI: https://doi.org/10.24922/eot.v9i1.84037 Article Info Submitted: December 2nd 2021 Accepted: March 1st 2022 Published: March 31th 2022 Abstract Malang City continues to be optimistic about being one of the cities that makes culinary tourism one of the mainstay trademarks. In culinary tour- ism, cafes are one of the destinations that tourists usually go to. Currently, the presence of cafes in Malang is growing very rapidly. This study aims to analyze the determinant factors that influence customer preference in choosing a café as a culinary tourism destination, especially in Malang. This research method is quantitative research, in which the survey was conducted through the distribution of questionnaires. The sample of this research was 120 respondents who were selected purposively. The col- lected data were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) tech- niques. Based on EFA, and it was found that 5 factors determinant (Mar- keting mix, Psychology, Personal, Attraction Social and Cultural, Person- ality) of customer preferences on café as a culinary tourism destination in Malang. The statictical results indicated that the factor determinants of customer preferences are related to the selection of cafes as a culinary tourism destination in Malang. The results of this study can be used by tourism stakeholders in Malang City to understand customer preference so that they can develop cafes as destinations of culinary tourism. Keywords: determinant factor; customer preferences; café; culinary tourism. INTRODUCTION Background Tourism is one of the priority sectors of national development in Indonesia, this is because tourism is considered a leading sector that can move other sectors. The food and beverage service provider busi- ness is one of the sectors affected by tour- ism. Food and beverages for tourists was basic demand and expenditure (Wijayanti et al., 2021). According to (Abdillah and Wira Diana, 2018) the development of food and beverages bussines in tourism destina- tion has been predicted to be continued, be- cause people nowadays consider that eating and drinking not just basicly needs for them but also became a recreational event that bring happines to them or even can a bring a pride. Enjoying food and drinks becomes a motivation for several tourists, further- more, that kind of activity is known as cul- inary tourism (Soeroso and Turgarini, 2020). http://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/eot E-Journal of Tourism Vol.9. No.1. (2022): 1-7 http://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/eot 2 e-ISSN 2407-392X. p-ISSN 2541-0857 Culinary tourism currently become a strong attraction for some tourist. One of the cities that is never deserted from tour- ists is Malang City, this is because its geo- graphical location in the highlands makes Malang City. In the city of Malang, there are many choices of tourist destinations that are available and offered, one of which is culinary tourism (Setioko, 2019). Along with the rise of the global phenom- enon of culinary tourism and considering its potential, Malang City continues to be optimistic about being one of the cities that makes culinary tourism a reliable trade- mark (Prayogo and Suryawan, 2018). Based on Malang City BPS data, the num- ber of restaurants was recorded at 1,444 (BPS Malang Kota, 2018). The restaurant is located in 5 sub-districts (Kedung Kan- dang, Breadfruit, Klojen, Blimbing, Lowokwaru) in Malang City. Based on BPS data, the location of most restaurants is in Klojen District, which is a total of 686 places (BPS Malang Kota, 2019). Café is a form of a restaurant that can be a destination for culinary tourism connoisseurs. According (Rahmawati et al., 2020) cafe operation, affects the econ- omy of the providers. The continuous and increasing demand from tourists allows for improvement and improvement of the pro- vider's economic conditions. Furthermore, providers capture this opportunity, they believe cafe businesses have a big oppor- tunity to generate profits. That could be also one of the reasons rapid growth of cafes presence in Malang City. Contrary, The significant increase in the number of cafes makes the owners obliged to think of strategies so that their business can live and not die due to competition (Tugu, 2019), to make this happen, business own- ers should know and understand consumer desires and provide products that consum- ers are interested in. After understanding consumer de- sires, the owner can design and implement strategies that can increase consumer interest and choose the cafe (Qistiya, Tur- garini and Sudono, 2017). In order to un- derstand consumer wants and solve the gaps, this study was conducted to produce data about the determinants factor of tourist or customer preferences for cafes as culi- nary tourism destinations. According to (M.Anang Firmansyah, 2019) to find out which products consumers are interested in for the goods or services they consume are to conduct customer research using survey methods. The other reason to conduct this study is that based on a desk study, not many studies have examined café as a culi- nary tourist attraction. The results of this study can be used by relevant stakeholders as reference material to conduct further re- search about building, promoting, and pre- serving culinary tourism, especially in Ma- lang. RESEARCH METHODS This research is quantitative re- search, the data collection tool used is a Likert scale of 1-4, which is a score of 4 in- dicating strong agreement with the state- ment. Each statement on the questionnaire represents variables. There are 24 variables in this study. The data obtained, then tabu- lated and then tested using exploratory factor analysis (EFA), to find factors that can ex- plain the correlation between the independ- ent variables studied. A collection of corre- lated variables is referred to as a factor, then new hypotheses can be generated from the formed factors (Shrestha, 2021b). In order to conducted factor analysis, a ratio of sam- ple (respondent) versus measured variables is 5:1, furthermore the total of sample size cannot be less than 100 (Fabrigar and Wegener, 2012). Therefore the number of respondents in this study as many as 120 re- spondents, the sampling technique was pur- posive, the respondents in this study were the customers of cafés in Malang city. This research location is in Café around Malang City. Data collection is carried out from http://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/eot E-Journal of Tourism Vol.9. No.1. (2022): 1-7 http://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/eot 3 e-ISSN 2407-392X. p-ISSN 2541-0857 June to November 2021. The object of this study is what is determinant factors of cus- tomer preferences on café as a culinary tourism destination. RESULT AND DISCUSSION Instrument Validity and Reliability This study uses a questionnaire as a primary data collection tool, before being distributed validity and reliability testing is carried out through a pilot study of 30 respondents, namely customer cafes in the city of Malang. Validity and reliability testing is important so that the primary data collected is valid so that it can answer research problems, in the context of quan- titative research, the right conclusion is al- ways based on the right quantitative re- search instrument (Budiastuti and Bandur, 2018). Based on validity test r-count of 24 variabel were higher than r-table (<0.361), than can be avowed that each item in this study questionnaire is valid. Futhermore, based on the results of reliability test cor- barch alpa value was 0.916 is higher than 0.70, it means that the instrument can pro- vide consistent score results on each meas- urement. Thus, the measurement tool (item/question items) still provides con- sistent measurement results at different times (Bolarinwa, 2015). The value of the reliability test was more than 0.90 which means that this questionnaire was excel- lent (Budiastuti and Bandur, 2018). Factor Analysis Based on the exploratory analysis factor technique, the first step is asses data suitability using KMO and Bartlett's Test. In Table 1, the results of the KMO test can be seen. Tabel 1. KMO and Bartlett's Test Results KMO and Bartlett's Test Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy. .861 Bartlett's Test of Sphericity Approx. Chi- Square 1387.167 df 276 Sig. .000 The value of KMO is 0.861, which means the sample size in this study is ade- quate because it is known that the KMO value is >0.50, it is considered feasible to be tested for factor analysis (Shrestha, 2021a). Further- more, the Bartletts test value is 0.000 <0.050, which means the variable and sample in this study can be tested using factor analysis. The value of MSA results Anti-Image Matrices on the factor analysis are as follows, tangible product (0.758), intangible product (0.833), price (0.827), facility (0.839), attractions (0.874), location (0.890), activity (0.879), culture (0.916), recommendation (0.886), so- cial class (0.874), age (0.826), profession (0.858), economic (0.842), lifestyle (0.838), self-concept (0.887), motivation (0.834), per- ception (0.858), learning (0.820), believe (0.838), promotion (0.904), image (0.888), environment (0.882), role (0.908), assurance (0.918). Based on the results of the MSA value for each variable is >0.50, then all the research variables can be analyzed further. The second step of factor analysis is factor extraction using principal components analysis (PCA). Based on the analysis the communalities and total variance explained value was obtained. The communalities ex- traction value as follows, tangible product (0.590), intangible product (0.690), price (0.528), facility (0.598), attractions (0.568), location (0.473), activity (0.574), culture (0.571), recommendation (0.698), social class (0.675), age (0.603), profession (0.683), eco- nomic (0.715), lifestyle (0.772), self-concept (0.733), motivation (0.646), perception (0.625), learning (0.673), believe (0.775), promotion (0.503), image (0.626), environ- ment (0.620), role (0.567), assurance (0.494). http://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/eot E-Journal of Tourism Vol.9. No.1. (2022): 1-7 http://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/eot 4 e-ISSN 2407-392X. p-ISSN 2541-0857 Tabel 2. Total Varience Explained The extraction value is represent- ing varians of the variable (Hogarty et al., 2005), as the example the communalities extraction value of tangible product is 0.590, that means 59.0% varians of varia- ble quantity tangible product can be ex- plained from the formed factors. This inter- pretation applies to all variables of this study, with a note that the greater the com- munality value of a variable, the closer it is to the formed factor. Total variance explained can be seen at Table 2, the value of eigenvalues represents each factor variance explained through that specific component which is linear. Prior to extraction, twenty-four lin- ear components within the data set are identified. Following extraction and rota- tion, the data set contains five distinct lin- ear components with eigenvalue >1, mean the five factors are extracted. As can be seen in Table 2, it can be seen the magnitude of the variance contri- bution given by each factor to all the origi- nal variables. Factor 1 contributes to the variance of 14.4% and is the largest vari- ance contribution that affects consumer preferences for cafes as culinary tourism destinations in Malang City, several other http://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/eot E-Journal of Tourism Vol.9. No.1. (2022): 1-7 http://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/eot 5 e-ISSN 2407-392X. p-ISSN 2541-0857 factors contribute to the variance, namely factor 2 of 14.2%, factor 3 of 12.9%, factor 4 of 12.5%, factor 5 of 8.3%. So that the total contribution of the variance of the five factors is 62.4%. It is recommended that these factors are maintained at least 50% of the total variance. The result indicates that five factors can account for 62.4% of the common variance shared by twenty-four variables. In addition to determining the num- ber of factors formed based on table 2, the eigenvalue can also be determined based on the scree test, the results can be seen in Figure 1. Figure 1. Scree Plot As can be seen at Figure 1 the y-axis, eigenvalues are plotted towards to the twenty-four component numbers in their order of extraction on the x-axis. The larg- est factors with the highest eigenvalues are extracted first, followed by smaller factors. The scree plot is used to calculate the num- ber of retained factors. The scree plot demonstrates that five factors have an ei- genvalue greater than one, accounting for the majority of the total variability in the data (Shrestha, 2021a). The remaining fac- tors contribute a negligible amount of var- iability and are therefore regarded as less significant. The final step to obtained factor construct is performing factor rota- tion, the summary of the factor analysis re- sults can be seen in Table 3. Based on the results of the rotation of factors as presented in table 3, five fac- tors were formed including factor 1 which was named the Marketing Mix factor, fac- tor 2 Psychology, factor 3 Personal, factor 4 Social and Cultural, and factor 5 Per- sonality. These five factors were determi- nants of customer preferences on cafe preferences as culinary tourism destina- tions in Malang City. Regarding the sta- tistical analysis results presented in table 3, it can be seen the first factor is known as the Marketing Mix. The X2 variable or intangible factor (0.807) has the highest weight on the first factor, meaning that the X2 variable has the greatest influence among other variables in the first factor. The second factor named Psychol- ogy, the X19 variable or Believe (0.806) has the highest weight on the second factor, meaning that the X19 variable has the greatest influence among other variables in the second factor. The third factor named Personal, the X13 variable or Economic (0.786) has the highest weight on the third factor, meaning that the X13 variable has the greatest influence among other varia- bles in the third factor. The fourth factor named Social and Cultural, the X9 variable or Recommendation (0.794) has the high- est weight on the fourth factor, meaning that the X13 variable has the greatest influ- ence among other variables in the fourth factor. The fifth factor named Personality is the X14 variable or Lifestyle (0.770) has the highest weight on the fifth factor, meaning that the X14 variable has the greatest influence among other variables in the fifth factor. http://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/eot E-Journal of Tourism Vol.9. No.1. (2022): 1-7 http://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/eot 6 e-ISSN 2407-392X. p-ISSN 2541-0857 Table 3. Summary of EFA Results CONCLUSION Based on the study results, it can be concluded five factors were extracted that influence customer preferences on café as a culinary tourism destination in Malang. The five dominant determinant factors of customer preferences were the Marketing Mix (14.4%), Psychological (14.2%), Per- sonal (12.9%), Cultural and Social (12.5%), and Personality (8.3%), in the to- tal amount of 62.4%, where the rest amount may be affected by other unidentified fac- tors. The results of this study hopefully can be a reference help stakeholders to make build a policy and make decisions. There are some suggestions for further research are to perform a more detailed analysis of the construct factor, and variables of the construct factor such as Intangible Product, Believe, Economic, Recommendation, Lifestyle of customer preferences on café as a culinary tourism destination, espe- cially in Malang. 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