Abstract
Currently, accommodation businesses apply various strategies within the scope of marketing in order to both reach their customers and generate a sense of loyalty in their customers. One of the most important of these strategies is to be able to appeal to the sensory organs of customers in order to keep their businesses memorable in the minds of customers. In line with this scope, current accommodation businesses endeavor to use sensory marketing strategies effectively. Therefore, sensory marketing has become one of the effective marketing strategies today by appealing to the sight, smell, hearing, feeling and taste organs of customers. Accommodation businesses also try to be superior to other businesses and differ from other businesses by using their own methods that will appeal to these five senses of customers. The main purpose of this was to investigate the effect of sensory marketing practices on customer loyalty on tourists coming to Salda Lake located in Yeşilova district of Burdur province. In line with this scope, 258 local tourists coming to Salda Lake were interviewed face to face and data were collected by the convenience sampling method using the survey method used in quantitative research. The collected data were transferred to the SPSS 22.0 program and after the exploratory factor analysis was performed to form the dimensions of the scale, simple, multiple regression, correlation, independent sample T-test and one-way ANOVA analyzes were also carried out. The main result of the study is that there is a positive and significant relationship between the sub-dimensions of sensory marketing applications, which are the tactile, visual, auditory, gustatory and olfactory dimensions, and customer loyalty suggestions, and between customer loyalty and sensory marketing practices. Within the scope of these results, if today's accommodation businesses effectively implement sensory marketing strategies that will appeal to the five senses of customers such as smell, taste and design, they will both gain superiority over their competitors as well as gain the loyalty of their customers who prefer their businesses. Other researchers who want to work on this subject will be able to reach more general results by extending the sample number and application area and make more inclusive recommendations to accommodation businesses.