Marketing Your City, U.S.A.: A Guide to Developing a Strategic Tourism Marketing Plan / Edition 1

Marketing Your City, U.S.A.: A Guide to Developing a Strategic Tourism Marketing Plan / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0789005913
ISBN-13:
9780789005915
Pub. Date:
08/06/1998
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
0789005913
ISBN-13:
9780789005915
Pub. Date:
08/06/1998
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Marketing Your City, U.S.A.: A Guide to Developing a Strategic Tourism Marketing Plan / Edition 1

Marketing Your City, U.S.A.: A Guide to Developing a Strategic Tourism Marketing Plan / Edition 1

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Overview

With Marketing Your City, U.S.A.: A Guide to Developing a Strategic Marketing Plan, you’ll discover how easy it is to market your hometown to potential tourists. You’ll find a simple, sure-fire strategy proven to bring out the charm and beauty of any town, anywhere. You’ll learn ways to improve the ”packaging” of your community, while at the same time improving its visible appeal to tourists. Marketing Your City, U.S.A. gives you the guidelines for developing and selecting objectives, key strategies, and tactics that will help you produce or increase revenue through increased tourism.

In Marketing Your City, U.S.A., you’ll find the marketing process broken down into easy steps that are outlined and completely explained for a theoretical destination: “Your City, U.S.A.” You will learn how to arrange a sample “calendar of events,” how to effectively plan a yearly series of promotions, and how to formulate a proposed budget for advertising, promotions, and public relations. Marketing Your City, U.S.A. is written in such a way that you can either implement all the strategic marketing steps or just the ones that particularly pertain to your hometown. The five easily applied marketing objectives you’ll find outlined in the book include:
  • how to enhance your city’s overall environment
  • how to broaden your city’s economic base while providing for new revenues
  • how to develop your city’s infrastructure to be visitor-friendly and to increase the length of visitors’stays
  • how to effectively market your city’s resources for tourism
  • how to communicate with both audiences—the public and local residents After reading Marketing Your City, U.S.A., you’ll find tourism a win-win situation: the more you attract tourists the more outside revenue you’ll gain. You’ll approach tourism with a confident strategy that guarantees your hometown’s success. Tourism can be difficult and overwhelming, so let Marketing Your City, U.S.A. guide you every step of the way.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780789005915
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 08/06/1998
Pages: 120
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kaye Sung Chon, Ronald A Nykiel, Elizabeth Jascolt

Table of Contents

Contents Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part One: The Strategic Tourism Marketing Plan
  • The Preface
  • Executive Summary
  • Competitive and Environmental Assessment
  • The Mission Statement
  • Goals and Objectives
  • Strategies and Tactics
  • A. Promotions
  • B. Advertising
  • C. Co-Ops
  • D. Sales
  • E. Events
  • F. Public Relations
  • Recommendations
  • The Vision
  • Slogans
  • Issues
  • Measurements and Results
  • Budgets
  • The Appendix
  • Conclusion
  • Part Two: Work Forms
  • Form A: Target Markets
  • Form B: Visual Perceptions
  • Form C: Competitive Assessment
  • Form D: Opportunities
  • Form E: Mission
  • Form F: Objectives
  • Form G: Promotions Plan
  • Form H: Events Calendar
  • Form I: Prioritization
  • Form J: Revenue and Reallocation
  • Form K: Marketing Budget
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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