The Role of Customer Relationship Management in the Customer's Loyalty to the Recreational Sports Centers

Customer relationship management is called to all preliminaries with the aim of attraction, keeping touch, optimizing of long term and invaluable relationship between the organization and the customer. To achieve this, all the recreational sports complexes could improve their condition in the competing market, utilizing the advantages of customer loyalty. The present study aims at examining the role of customer relationship management (CRM) in the customer's loyalty to the recreational sports centers in Mashhad. This study uses a descriptive-correlative method which was conducted in the field. The population included all customers of recreational sports centers (swimming pools, bodybuilding and aerobics clubs) in Mashhad who had at least 6 months of membership. Using cluster sampling, 4 regions out of total 13 regions in Mashhad were randomly selected. The sample size was determined 384 people and after discarding the corrupt questionnaires, the statistical analysis was done on 356 questionnaires. In order to gather data on CMR, a researcher-made questionnaire was used whose validity was (α=0.88) and for loyalty, Liu's questionnaire (2008) was applied which was estimated as (α=0.85). To analyze the demographic characteristics, we used descriptive statistics and at the inferential statistics level we simultaneously utilized the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Pearson's correlation and multivariate regression. The study results showed that there is a positive significant relationship between CRM and the customer's loyalty (P