Clarifications regarding medical tourism destinations marketing

The development of new types of tourism (stand-alone, connected or components), from marketing experience, implies a broad spectrum of challenges, which, placed in a planned background, has the purpose the creation and then, the development of tourism products that correspond, at least, to consumers’ expectations. In order to optimize the new type of tourism, it is necessary to be correlated with the relevant resources of the destination, which, harmonized, can lead to the elaboration of destination marketing strategies, in this situation being the medical tourism, component of health tourism

Assessment modalities of the Master Plan for the Romanian tourism development 2007-2026

The complexity of a tourism destination such as Romania constitutes a prerequisite for organizing the marketing activity at the macro and meso level, in the context of the tourism development planning process at national level. An important document for the Romanian tourism development is the Master Plan, developed for the period 2007-2026, whose periodic evaluation is required. For this purpose, a quantitative marketing research has been conducted, on a sample of 107 young people, with ongoing economic higher education studies, which aimed at the knowledge of the opinions on the Master Plan for the Romanian tourism development, elaborated for 2007-2026, using as evaluation criteria, the knowledge gained from the Masters program. Thus, the opinions on the way of its organization, as well as its managerial implications have been analyzed, and finally, solutions have been proposed in order to improve it. Also, for a more complex view, a qualitative marketing research has been conducted, on a panel of experts, representatives of the Ministry of Tourism, in order to capture, from an internal perspective as well, important aspects of the organization and coordination processes on which the Master Plan was fundamented

Young people’s considerations regarding the fidelity of tourism products consumption

In order to satisfy, maintain and fidelize the consumers, considering the multitude of users on the tourism market, it is necessary to implement a relational marketing paradigm, thus offering products that permanently meet the needs and dynamic wishes of tourists, and so, sustaining a certain chain of supply – delivery based on values, and respecting the interests and objectives of the partners. In order to identify the elements/components of the tourism products, towards who the respondents are faithful, and in order to learn the constant aspects in making the decisions of buying and consuming, a quantitative marketing research has been conducted on a sample of 165 people, aged between 18 and 24 years old

Integrated marketing communication in tourism – an analysis. Case study: Muntenia and Oltenia

The multitude of factors interfering in the process of image formation and the way in which they act in a unique combination, similar to a genetic code for a consumer, influences the image study of a tourism destination in the direction of becoming a complex process. In the marketing activity of each destination, the analysis of the importance of destination’s resources represents an essential step, however, as the multifaceted tourism product presents (in combination with, as well as through other policies – price, distribution etc.) a strong diversification, the distinction between the real, objective situation of the destination’s resources and the lack of their communication, on the one hand, and the distinction between the real situation and the way in which the resources are “presented” (in the direction of maximising or minimising them), on the other hand, can constitute a barrier in the path of formulating and/or fulfilling the marketing objectives and, respectively, the communication ones. In this context, in the authors’ opinion, in aid of a positioning strategy as accurate as possible – starting point in the integrated marketing communication strategy, a radiography of the tourism resources, their place and their reflection, in relation to those communicated through the different promotional instruments (examples, books, guides, online tourism agencies, social media etc.), is permanently imposed, all the more in the case of a macrodestination like Romania, and should be carefully monitorised