Luksusowe usługi kosmetyczne i medycyny estetycznej w opinii konsumentów
Luxurious Cosmetic and Aesthetic Medicine Services in Consumers’ Opinion

Summary/Abstract: Consumers’ behaviours in the market for luxurious services are determined by many factors. In their article, the authors undertook an attempt to interpret the notion of luxurious service and evaluation of the requirements posed to it. Moreover, they examined consumers’ behaviours in the market for luxurious cosmetic services. The surveys were carried out in the group of 162 inhabitants of Tricity. The respondents identified luxury with life comfort and with pleasure of consumption. More than 70% of the respondents ascertained presence of luxurious services in the market for services. Their basic features are high quality and price as well as accessibility for only the selected group. The luxurious cosmetic services’ attributes are guarantee of high quality and prestige. The main reasons for use of these services are desire to take care of one’s appearance and health as well as prestige. The most often chosen procedures were ones connected with removal of the symptoms of ageing, also considered as luxurious. The amounts, which the respondents assigned for procedures, were diversified and prices for the procedures in their opinion were too high. In the epoch of prevalence of the trends to take case of health and appearance, the market for cosmetic services has been witnessing an intense development, and offering new, more and more sophisticated and effective procedures, it has an opportunity to be coined as luxurious. The article is of the research nature

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