1st Edition

International Case Studies in Tourism Marketing

Edited By Gürhan Aktaş, Metin Kozak Copyright 2022
268 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This international case study book provides 27 expertly curated case studies on the topic of tourism marketing, each with detailed implementation instructions for the instructor in order to maximise student participation and learning. The dynamic characteristic of the industry under the influence of micro and macro environment factors requires future professionals to be equipped with... Read more

Case 1 - The Joy Labs: PANCOE as a New Instrument to Enhance Tourism Education

Alejandra Zuccoli, Hugues Seraphin and Maximiliano E. Korstanje

Case 2 - Marketing Wellness in Paradise: What’s Hard About That?

Su Gibson and Drew Martin

Case 3 - Mentor-Mentee Incentive Event Planning Case Study

Özen Kırant Yozcu and Maria D. Alvarez

Case 4 - Marketing your Destination from Thousand Miles Away: The Power of Social Media

Elaine Yulan Zhang and Carol Yi Cui

Case 5 - Using Online Reviews to Measure Customer Experience Assessment

Andrés Artal-Tur, Juan Pedro Mellinas and Noelia Sánchez-Casado

Case 6 - Analysing Information About Hotels on Online Review Sites Under Special Conditions

Juan Pedro Mellinas, Andrés Artal-Tur and Noelia Sánchez-Casado

Case 7 - Effective Airline Market Segmentation: The Case of Singapore Airlines Group

Evi Chatzopoulou, Ioulia Poulaki ve Andreas Papatheodorou

Case 8 - A Unique Trail: Is the Product Ready-Made?

Małgorzata Zdon-Korzeniowska and Monika Borowiec-Gabryś

Case 9 - Keeping Up With Image Marketing During a Pandemic

Monika Barnwal and Vijay Kumar

Case 10 - Communicating Healthy Forest Air as a Medicine

Maurizio Droli and Yasuo Ohe

Case 11 - Virtual and Augmented Reality in Tourism: Dare to Research?

Patricia Isabel Santateresa-Bernat

Case 12 - Convent Carmen: Rethinking the Boundaries Between Tourism and the City

Juan Sánchez-Villar, Enrique Bigné and Luisa Andreu

Case 13 - Hotels and Online Travel Agencies: A Partnership Made in Heaven?

Peter O’Connor

Case 14 - Tasting Wine or Exploring the Wine Mystique

Aise Kim

Case 15 - Designing Gastronomic Identity-Based Food Tours

Aise Kim

Case 16 - Global Hotel Revenue Management Challenges: A Nightmare for Revenue Managers

Tevfik Demirçiftci

Case 17 - A Yacht Charter Holiday

Serim Paker

Case 18 - Bombarding the Tourism Minister with Questions

Gürhan Aktaş and Rut Gomez Sobrino

Case 19 - Doomsday in Şirince

Gürhan Aktaş and Burçin Kırlar-Can

Case 20 - New Media Marketing Channels to Market Mengjinglai Scenic Area

Lanlan Huang

Case 21 - Tourist Guides Preparing the Tourists for Shopping in Guided Tours

Vedat Acar and Abdullah Tanrısevdi

Case 22 - Tango or Acrobatics: How to Capture Info Groups’ Memory

H. Kader Şanlıöz-Özgen

Case 23 - I Want a Brand New Car

H. Kader Şanlıöz-Özgen

Case 24 - Dinner on the Pier: A Reason to Return

H. Kader Şanlıöz-Özgen

Case 25 - Digital Communications in Tourism Marketing Strategies

Rut Gomez Sobrino

Case 26 - Marketing Mix Analysis for Dote Restaurants in Portugal

Vahid Ghasemi, Marcelo Oliveira and Salar Kuhzady

Case 27 - Who Really Makes the Holiday Decision: Is it the Buyer or the Seller?

Demet Ceylan and Erhan Bilgici

 

Biography

Gürhan Aktaş is Associate Professor at the Department of Tourism Management, Faculty of Business, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey. He holds a BA in Business Administration from Hacettepe University, Turkey, an MSc in Tourism Management from the University of Surrey, UK and a Ph.D. in Tourism Marketing from Bournemouth University, UK.  He delivers both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the fields of destination management, tourism geography and tourism marketing. He has authored academic publications on crisis management in tourist destinations, visitor attractions and events management.

Metin Kozak holds a Ph.D. in Tourism from Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has contributed a wide range of articles to top-tier journals and conference papers in more than 40 countries, and over 30 books released by international publishers. He has been involved in several national and international research projects, particularly with his partners based in Europe, Asia and the US. He received the EFQM Ph.D. Thesis Award and a number of conference paper awards. He acts as the co-editor of Anatolia and is a member of the editorial/review board for many international journals. His research interests entail marketing and consumer behaviour in an interdisciplinary context. He is currently affiliated with the Faculty of Communication at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.