Online Reputation Management in Destination and Hospitality


Book Description

Online Reputation Management in Destination and Hospitality’s comprehensive collection of research decodifies the best practices existing in the market, developing innovative strategies for tourism, hospitality, and destination managers to tailor marketing communication strategies to attract attention and boost their reputation.




Online Reputation Management in Destination and Hospitality


Book Description

Online Reputation Management in Destination and Hospitality’s comprehensive collection of research decodifies the best practices existing in the market, developing innovative strategies for tourism, hospitality, and destination managers to tailor marketing communication strategies to attract attention and boost their reputation.




Optimizing Digital Solutions for Hyper-Personalization in Tourism and Hospitality


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As hyper-personalization has yet to be perfected, developing hyper-personalized strategies presents a critical challenge; due to this, optimizing hyper-personalization and designing new processes and business models takes center stage in tourism and hospitality to reach new levels of customer service and experience through the introduction and development of new solutions supported in the internet of things, software interfaces, artificial intelligence solutions, back-end and front-end management tools, and other emergent business intelligence strategies. Optimizing Digital Solutions for Hyper-Personalization in Tourism and Hospitality serves as an essential reference source that emphasizes the importance of hyper-personalization models, processes, strategies, and issues within tourism and hospitality fields with a particular focus on digital IT solutions. More than a simple starting point for a critical reflection on the state of the art of this sector, this book aims to contribute in an objective way to leveraging digital solutions to optimize the concept of hyper-personalization in the tourist experience. The content of this book covers research topics that include digital tourism and hospitality, consumer behavior, customer journey, and smart technologies and is ideal for professionals, executives, hotel managers, event coordinators, restaurateurs, travel agents, tour directors, policymakers, government officials, industry professionals, researchers, students, and academicians in the fields of tourism and hospitality management, marketing, and communications.




Tourism Destination Management


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This book collected studies focused on the management of tourist destinations. Destinations are complex and adaptive systems, where the different elements that make them up have to be oriented towards achieving a common objective that improves the competitiveness of the destination. Five main lines of research on tourist destinations can be established: 1) the management, planning, and marketing of destinations, with special attention to the tourism supply chain, communication, and integral management; 2) the sustainability of resources and capabilities; 3) the renewal of destinations in order to update their offer and main resources to maintain competitiveness; 4) online reputation and communication through social media in order to create and enhance a strong brand image and customer loyalty; and 5) the application of new technologies in order to develop smart destinations. The book is made up of five research studies that focus on analyzing the transition towards a more circular tourist activity in hotels, image as a competitive factor of destinations, the value of cultural creativity, the coherence of online reputation, and the relationship between hotel prices and online reputation in different tourist destinations.




Destination Brands


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This textbook shows how cities, regions and countries adopt branding strategies similar to those of leading household brand names in an effort to differentiate themselves and emotionally connect with potential tourists. It asks whether tourist destinations get the reputations they deserve and uses topical case studies to discuss brand concepts and challenges. It tackles how place perceptions are formed, how cities, regions and countries can enhance their reputations as creative, competitive destinations, and the link between competitive identity and strategic tourism policy making.




Place Branding


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The topic of place branding is moving from infancy to adolescence. Many cities, and nations have already established their place brand and this well documented new book brings the fundamentals of place branding together in an academic format but is at the same time useful for practice.




The Routledge Handbook of Destination Marketing


Book Description

This book examines key contemporary marketing concepts, issues and challenges that affect destinations within a multidisciplinary global perspective. Uniquely combining both the theoretical and practical approaches, this handbook discusses cutting edge marketing questions such as innovation in destinations, sustainability, social media, peer-to-peer applications and web 3.0. Drawing from the knowledge and expertise of 70 prominent scholars from over 20 countries around the world, The Routledge Handbook of Destination Marketing aims to create an international platform for balanced academic research with practical applications, in order to foster synergetic interaction between academia and industry. For these reasons, it will be a valuable resource for both researchers and practitioners in the field of destination marketing.




Tourism and Hospitality Marketing


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With over 70 global case studies and vignettes, this textbook covers all the key marketing principles applied to tourism and hospitality, showing how these concepts work in practice and demonstrating the diverse range of tourism and hospitality products on offer. Chapters are packed with pedagogical features that will help readers consolidate their learning, including: - Chapter objectives - Key terms - Discussion questions and exercises - Links to useful websites - Profiles of successful individuals and organizations Tourism and Hospitality Marketing is accompanied by a website that offers lecturers answers to the discussion questions and exercises in the book, case study questions, a test bank, PowerPoint slides and a list of additional teaching resources.




Reviewed!


Book Description

For hotels wanting to sell through online channels, user reviews have become incredibly influential. Every customer has an opinion and feels entitled to share it with the world. As a result, both on dedicated review sites such as TripAdvisor.com or built into property pages on Online Travel agency websites, what past customers are saying about you can make or break your business, making proactively managing your online reputation essential. However, responding to harsh and sometimes unwarranted criticism on a multitude of websites is often an uphill battle. With the process new to most hoteliers, many struggle to manage it effectively, or sometimes even know where to start, resulting in missed opportunities and a damaged online reputation. Thankfully help is at hand. Based on techniques learned working with both independent and chain hotels, Reviewed! The hoteliers' unofficial guide will assist you in defending, controlling and enhancing your property's online reputation. Using a highly practical approach, this guide provides precise, detailed, step-by-step solutions, tactics and suggestions to help you to: - Better understand the role and importance of user reviews in today's highly competitive online booking environment- Manage your hotel's pre-purchase image so you can more easily exceed guest expectations and drive better user reviews- Use proven strategies to respond to reviews, both positive and negative- Challenge and remove suspicious or unwarranted reviews- Appreciate how the main review channels work and how best to manage their idiosyncrasies and requirements - Assess which software tools to use to assist in online reputation management - Understand how you can drive additional favourable reviews to increase your rating scores and positioning- Use reviews as a free corporate intelligence tool to better understand your, and your competitors', relative strengths and weaknesses. [Source : 4e de couverture].




Handbook of Research on Social Media Applications for the Tourism and Hospitality Sector


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Tourists frequently rely on social networks to provide information about a product or destination as a decision support tool to make adequate decisions in the process of planning a trip. In this digital environment, tourists share their travel experiences, impressions, emotions, special moments, and opinions about an assortment of tourist services like hotels, restaurants, airlines, and car rental services, all of which contribute to the online reputation of a tourist destination. The Handbook of Research on Social Media Applications for the Tourism and Hospitality Sector is a fundamental reference source that provides vital theoretical frameworks and the latest innovative empirical research findings of online social media in the tourism industry. While highlighting topics such as e-business, mobile marketing, and smart tourism, this publication explores user-generated content and the methods of mobile strategies. This book is ideally designed for tour developers, travel agents, restaurateurs, hotel management, tour directors, entrepreneurs, social media analysts, managers, industry professionals, academicians, researchers, and students.