Marketing in the Tourism Industry: The Promotion of Destination Regions, Volume 1

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Brian Goodall, Gregory John Ashworth
Routledge, Dec 5, 2012 - Business & Economics - 264 pages

This book examines how different sections of the tourism industry attempt to reach their markets. A wide range of distinctive forms of holiday are considered, and the influence their characteristics have on how they are marketed is discussed. But the approach is also comparative, and the relative success each area of the industry has in reaching its market is evaluated.

 

Contents

An Analytical Framework
1
2 Changing Patterns And Structure of European Tourism
18
3 The Development of Tourism in the Least Developed Countries
39
4 The Role of Travel Agent and Tour Operator
67
5 The Role of the Tourist Board
75
The Green Coast Road in the Northern Netherlands
89
The Limburg Experience
101
A Spanish Application
111
Theoretical and Empirical Aspects
133
10 Marketing the Historic City for Tourism
162
How to Effect a Rransition by Really Makinf an Effort
176
Le Mission Impossible?
187
13 Changing Tourism Requires a Different Management Approach
198
Marketing Considerations
213
Index
239
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