Overview
- Provides a strategic perspective to the marketing of travel and tourism (e.g strategic alliances, breakdown of commercial borders, advances in new technologies etc.)
Thoroughly international throughout with numerous examples and illustrations
Examines specific issues that are influencing tourism marketing today, including coverage of human resources strategies, service quality and the internet
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Overview of International Tourism Marketing Principles
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Issues and Trends in Contemporary Tourism Marketing
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Strategic Marketing in the Tourism Sectors
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About this book
Tourism marketing has long been considered as a branch of traditional marketing. However, in recent years, tourism marketing has gone through fundamental changes: the pursuit of global strategies based on strategic alliances, the breakdown of commercial borders and advances in new technology have all facilitated the commercialisation of tourism products.
This book sets out to examine the changes shaping the international marketing of tourism and travel. The book begins in defining the role of international marketing in tourism and describes the strategic marketing process, from analysis and strategy formulation to implementation techniques. It provides the marketing theory for the rest of the text. Part two focuses on specific issues that are currently influencing tourism marketing. As such, it explains how technology is affecting the way tourism firms operate, the impact and influence of environmental awareness, human resource strategy and service quality on tourism marketing. Finally, it presents the strategic responses of each of the sub-sectors - hospitality, air transport, tour operation, travel agency and the tourism destination - to the pressures of the changing tourism industry.
The International Marketing of Travel and Tourism is aimed at final year undergraduate and postgraduate students of tourism providing a strategic approach to marketing within this growing sector.
This book sets out to examine the changes shaping the international marketing of tourism and travel. The book begins in defining the role of international marketing in tourism and describes the strategic marketing process, from analysis and strategy formulation to implementation techniques. It provides the marketing theory for the rest of the text. Part two focuses on specific issues that are currently influencing tourism marketing. As such, it explains how technology is affecting the way tourism firms operate, the impact and influence of environmental awareness, human resource strategy and service quality on tourism marketing. Finally, it presents the strategic responses of each of the sub-sectors - hospitality, air transport, tour operation, travel agency and the tourism destination - to the pressures of the changing tourism industry.
The International Marketing of Travel and Tourism is aimed at final year undergraduate and postgraduate students of tourism providing a strategic approach to marketing within this growing sector.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
FRANÇOIS VELLAS is Professor of International Tourism Economics a the University of Toulouse.
LIONEL BECHEREL is a management consultant specialising in tourism.
LIONEL BECHEREL is a management consultant specialising in tourism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The International Marketing of Travel and Tourism
Book Subtitle: A Strategic Approach
Editors: François Vellas, Lionel Bécherel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27486-4
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: François Vellas and Lionel Bécherel 1999
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 329
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Tourism Management