Segmenting fitness centre clients

Abstract

This study segments the clients of fitness centres in the Portuguese island of Madeira based on cluster analysis. A questionnaire with 121 observations is used to examine the motivation profiles. The findings reveal that there are three segments in the data: the first is denominated as the ‘happy consumer’ segment. The second segment consists of the ‘unhappy consumers’ and the third are composed of the unmarried, unattached consumers. The managerial implications of the results are derived.