MARKETING IN TOURISM – DIRECT MARKETING AS MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

Nejra Hujić, Fatima Salihić

Secondary school for Catering and Tourism in Sarajevo, Dugi sokak 9, 71 000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, nejra.sljivo@suts-sa.edu.ba, fatima.salihic@suts-sa.edu.ba

REVIEW PAPER

ISSN 2637-2150
e-ISSN 2637-2614
UDC 338.486.4:339.138
DOI: 10.7251/STED2002089H

Paper received: 03.05.2020.
Paper accepted: 12.05.2020.
Published: 26.05.2020.
http://stedj-univerzitetpim.com

Corresponding Author:

Nejra Hujić, Secondary school for Catering and Tourism in Sarajevo, Dugi sokak 9, 71 000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, nejra.sljivo@suts-sa.edu.ba

ABSTRACT

Marketing in tourism is a systematic adjustment of tourism company policy and political policy at the local, regional, national and international levels in order to meet the needs of tourists and make a profit. The purpose of the paper is to explain how direct marketing, especially as part of a marketing mix, can help facilitate the exchange process in the international and domestic tourism markets. The aim of studying marketing in tourism is to make this concept available in this activity in theoretical, methodological and application terms. Marketing in the tourism industry is in a phase of maturity and is becoming sophisticated, which leads to the fact that the entire industry increasingly accepts the basic principles of marketing: The concept of marketing; Marketing orientation; Meeting the wishes and needs of consumers; Market segmentation; Value ; Product life cycle and Marketing mix (the principle on which the essence of the work is based). Direct marketing activities are based on databases and interactive communication media. Databases enable the selection of the target market (customer), which is acted upon by selecting the appropriate advertising/sales medium. The most famous media of direct marketing are certainly catalogs, direct mail and telephone (telemarketing), while in practice many others are used such as: television, radio, Internet, mobile phones, print, inserts.

Keywords: direct marketing, databased marketing, marketing mix, marketing segmentation.

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