Handout 7 Flashcards
For tour operators, it means introducing the brand to reach more prospects, create more opportunities, and sell and generate more revenues.
Marketing
are places that attract visitors for a temporary stay. These range from continents, countries, states, and provinces down to cities, villages, and purposely built resort areas
Destinations
Once marketing promotes a destination (town, city, region, or country) to increase its number of visitors, it becomes one of the types of marketing
destination marketing
a business document outlining one’s marketing strategy and tactics
marketing plan
should answer the question, “What are you trying to achieve?”
Objective
should answer the question, “How are you going to achieve it/these?”
Strategy
should answer the question, “What are the things you need to do to achieve it/these?”
Tactic
guides travel agencies or tour operators to come up with the image that they would like to be remembered by their market.
Building an identity
conveys a travel agency or tour operator’s “distinct image” or something that sets them apart from the others. This is also where the company name, logo, colors/theme, and slogan are best illustrated.
corporate identity
entails what the tour operator or travel agency sells. This aims to establish an image and perception in the market place.
brand identity
aimsto connect the tour package to the clients or consumers.
Communicating the selling proposition
plays a predominant role in the totality of the marketing process.
Communication
necessary to convey measurements of the message’s quality, fidelity, and effectiveness back to the sender in order for it to make necessary adjustments if need be.
Feedback
the modern and easiest form of marketing.
Social media marketing
is done when people recommend or share stories about an experience theygot from a tour package.
Word of mouth
can be from online reviews and ratings that people have given on a particular tour package. This can either be done in the form of an online survey or an online rating directly on a company’s (travel agency or tour operator) website.
User-generated content
the power of recommendation from clients or consumers.
Advocacy
aims to get clients that fit the tour package of travel agencies or tour operators. It also cultivates loyalty and generates repeat bookings.
Relational marketing