<p>An introduction to the key issues involved in developing and managing destinations, using case studies of Tibet, Hawaii, Wales and South Africa.</p>

Tourist Destination Management: Issues, Analysis, and Policies (Routledge Topics in Tourism)

Business & Money

Laws, Eric

Economics

Routledge

Examines the relationships between tour operators, retail travel agencies, charter airlines, tourist destination, hotels and attractions operators in terms of their relative channel power. The text discusses other forms of tourism from these perspectives including cruising holidays and timeshare. Throughout the book, the potential for improvements in the management of service quality is stressed and, by using a wide selection of case studies, readers are provided with insights into good practice in the industry. The text is designed as an overview for students wanting to understand the key issues in this area of tourism.

Managing Packaged Tourism (Topics in Tourism Ser.))

Thomson Learning

Hospitality, Tourism, and Lifestyle Concepts

Explore how lifestyle concepts are linked to marketing the hospitality and tourism industryHospitality, Tourism, and Lifestyle Concepts: Implications for Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction is a comprehensive benchmark review of how lifestyle concepts can be applied to the hospitality and tourism industry. Noted authorities present multifaceted viewpoints examining a range of topics, such as matching the lifestyles of tourism providers and guests, lifestyle segmentation studies, and methodological issues in lifestyle segmentation research. You’ll learn how the consideration of lifestyle concepts can improve the effectiveness of marketing in addition to providing quality management and improved customer satisfaction in the hospitality and tourism industry.This book provides an in-depth exploration of the implications of lifestyle concepts in the marketing of the hospitality and tourism industry. Each chapter of Hospitality, Tourism, and Lifestyle Concepts: Implications for Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction examines essential issues, including quality management and customer satisfaction, improving customer experience through host-guest lifestyle matching, ways to segment customers by lifestyle, and the benefits and burdens of the gay tourism market. The book confronts widely held beliefs about the industry, confirming or adjusting those views through solid data. Research is clearly presented, always with an eye toward strengthening this fragile industry.Hospitality, Tourism, and Lifestyle Concepts: Implications for Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction discusses: the potential use of lifestyle segmentation to achieve psychographic matching between hosts and guests the significance of the lifestyle concept for the management of service quality and customer satisfaction research into gay tourism marketing, with a discussion about recent evidence suggesting that the distinct purchasing patterns of gays are exaggerated lifestyle market segments and the relation to satisfaction with a nature-based tourism experience a lifestyle segmentation analysis of the backpacker market in Scotland three different approaches to lifestyle segmentation in improving the quality of tourism and leisure marketing decisions improved understanding of tourists’ needs through cross-classification Hospitality, Tourism, and Lifestyle Concepts: Implications for Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction is an essential review of the lifestyle marketing concept that will prove invaluable for hospitality and tourism professionals, instructors, and industry members.

Hospitality, Tourism, and Lifestyle Concepts: Implications for Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction

Thyne, Maree

<p>Distribution is regarded as one of the most critical managerial decisions, which can actually determine the competitiveness and profitability of organizations. As the first book to cover this key tourism subject, Tourism Distribution Channels brings together a range of contemporary case-study material, providing the underlying theory as well as practical aspects from a range of sectors and regions around the world. The material is considered from multiple theoretical perspectives, including: industry network theory, relationship marketing, industry structure, value chain approaches and systems theory.</p>

Tourism Distribution Channels: Practices, Issues and Transformations

Buhalis, Dimitrios

Travel

Cengage Learning Business Press

Tourism Distribution Channels

Cengage Learning EMEA

Consumer satisfaction is a key issue for all those involved in tourism and hospitality services. Through a multitude of case studies, this book explores the challenges of managing tourism and hospitality businesses in order to produce maximum customer satisfaction. It outlines the various frameworks available for the study of tourist satisfaction, before examining service delivery systems and definitions of quality. It then discusses the role that marketing can play in tourism and hospitality services, and the ways in which hospitality and tourism services can be improved. The book contains examples of customer dissatisfaction, and examples of organizations that have succeeded in providing profitable services with high levels of customer loyalty.

Improving Tourism and Hospitality Services

CABI

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