Tourism Marketing provides a contemporary approach to formulating,implementing and monitoring marketing strategy for regional tourismmarketers and small businesses, the latter comprising over 90% ofthe 'tourism industry'. The principal aim of Tourism Marketing isto demonstrate how marketing principles apply in the tourismindustry in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific.
This text will provide students with a thorough understanding of:
- a conceptual framework for tourism and travel marketing
- the role and importance of destination marketingorganisations
- factors influencing tourism demand and supply
- characteristics of consumer-traveler behaviour
- services marketing in tourism
- the role of marketing research in management decisionmaking
- approaches to branding, positioning and segmentation
- the philosophy of integrated marketing communicationsperformance metrics