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Destination Marketing [1]

Paper Code: 
MTM 422
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
4.00
Objective: 

To give an insight into marketing of a destination

10.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

Tourism Attraction: Definition, Characteristics, typology, Criteria for tourist attractiveness, development and design of tourist attractions. Destination life cycle.

14.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Tourism Destination Planning, Environmental analysis, resource analysis, Regional Environmental analysis and scanning, marketing analysis, competitor analysis

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Regional Goal Formation: Strategy formation, product portfolio strategies. Tourism portfolio model, analysis of portfolio approaches. Market segmentation in the regional context- Bases, steps and categories, Target Marketing- targeting options, positioning strategies.

 

11.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Components of destination marketing mix. Product Strategy- Nature and Characteristics

Managing existing tourism products. New product development in Regional Tourism. Pricing Strategies- tourist perception of price.

 

13.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

The Tourism Distribution Strategy- Choice of distribution channel. Developing a destination promotional strategy. Evaluation and control of the promotional programme. Tourism organization- Role in destination development and promotion.

 

References: 
  • Marketing Tourism Destinations: Ernie Heath and Geoffrey wall, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Marketing for hospitality and tourism- Philip Kotler, Jon Bower.
  • Tourism Marketing: Lumsdon
  • Marketing for Tourism- J. Christopheo Holloway and Chris Robinson

 

 

Academic Year: 
2018-2019 [2]

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