A Preliminary Research on Willingness to Pay Pet
Lovers on Services in Animal Health Center
Mokhamad Syaefudin Andrianto
1
, Hardiana Widyastuti
1
, Farida Ratna Dewi
1
,
Nisa Zahra
1
, Nesti Handayani
1
syaefudin1@apps.ipb.ac.id, hardiana.widyastuti@apps.ipb.ac.id, farida@apps.ipb.ac.id,
nisazahra@apps.ipb.ac.id, nesti@apps.ipb.ac.id
1
Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Management, IPB University,
Bogor, Indonesia 16680
Abstract. Pet lovers in big cities have been growing and tend to increase demand
of services in animal health center. Currently, There are no pay services in Depok
animal health center. However, due to over increase on demand and limited
budget to improve services, local government encourage manager to asses
potentially charge. So, This research aims as a preliminary research to assess
willingness pet lovers to pay services on Depok animal health center. The primary
data gathered by survey from 24 pet lovers who came to Depok animal health
center between October- November 2019. Secondary data for benchmarking were
obtained from the internet and brochures. The result showed for demographic
respondent aspect dominated by women (96%) as housewife (63%), with average
allocated budget for pets was 670.000 IDR/month. Respondents came to Depok
animal health center was on average 6 times annually with pets were dominated
by cats (96%). The average willingness to pay service was 25 583 IDR/service.
The charge is relative affordable based on other ones as benchmark
Keywords : Pets budget, Pets clinic, Service charge
1. Introduction
The number of Indonesian pet lovers has been growing along with middle
class growth especially in big cities. Entrepreneurs and veterinarians collaborate
to take this opportunity and set up business related to animal care such as feed
shops, pet clinics and animal health centers. For veterinarians, charge service is
uncomfortable topic to discuss [1]. However, cost and revenue should be
calculate to run business.
Although visit to veterinarian is considered expensive, majority pet lovers
want to invest in their pets’ health for example to medical checkup or vaccinated
[2]. There are some reasons why people love and want to invest in pets such as
for hobbies, reducing loneliness on elderly people [3,4] some times considered
ICoSMI 2020, September 14-16, Indonesia
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DOI 10.4108/eai.14-9-2020.2304435