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Concepts and types of marketing in the field of tourism. Technology for the implementation of the concept of marketing in a tourist enterprise. Key functions of marketing in tourism

Entry international tourism leading sectors of the world economy is accompanied by profound structural changes in the processes of production and distribution tourism services. We observe, on the one hand, the constant segmentation and diversification of supply and demand in the field of international tourist travel, on the other hand, the integration and globalization of the production and distribution of tourism products, a sharp increase in competition not only at the level of economic entities, but also between various tourist centers, regions and even countries.

Under these conditions, marketing has been actively used by numerous tourism enterprises: travel agencies, hotels, transport companies, catering companies, tour agencies, etc., for which the main thing in marketing policy is the struggle for survival, strengthening positions in the international tourism market.

There are several approaches to the definition of marketing, which depend on the role played by marketing in the enterprise. For example, marketing can be considered as one of the usual management functions along with production, financial and personnel.

According to another approach, marketing is defined as a more important management function than others. Another approach gives us the definition of marketing as the main function of management. There is an approach according to which the satisfaction of the needs and demands of the consumer comes first as the main control function of management, and marketing becomes equivalent to production, financial, personnel functions. The growth of competition makes it necessary to determine the satisfaction of the needs and demands of the consumer as the main control function, and consider marketing as the main integrating function.

In this way, marketing in international tourism can be defined as a set of measures to study the production and marketing activities of an enterprise aimed at maximizing the satisfaction of market demand for international tourist services based on an analysis of all factors, including the study of the needs and desires of potential international travelers, which affects the promotion of services and goods from the manufacturer of international tourist services to consumers and allowing to receive the maximum profit.

At the same time, marketing in international tourism can be considered as a system for managing trade and industrial business activities aimed at maximizing the satisfaction of market demand for tourism services based on studying the needs and desires of potential international travelers in order to maximize profits.

Marketing of international tourism has a number of significant features that distinguish it from the marketing of many goods and services. First of all, the tourism product itself as a set of services created in one country and sold in another has the following characteristic differences:

heterogeneity, i.e. lack of uniformity in the performance of the same services;

intangibility, i.e. the inability to evaluate any service until it is performed;

non-persistence, i.e. services cannot be stored as tangible goods in a warehouse. Any unused service cannot be restored;

inseparability, i.e. services are consumed only at the place of their production, they cannot be transferred to another place.

It should also be emphasized that quality is of particular importance in the marketing of international tourism. Tourists pay more and more attention to how they were met, how the staff treats them, etc.

Finally, it should be pointed out that in international tourism such marketing functions as production planning and development of a new tourist product, pricing, promotion and sale of services are distributed between two or more foreign firms that have established cooperation with each other.

These features leave a certain imprint on the concept of international tourism marketing. Its tasks include:

Recognizing and identifying the international tourism market and assessing the potential demand for international travel that the travel agency can offer to potential tourists;

Evidence of the need to develop and plan the provision of these services in volume, quality and prices corresponding to the identified demand for them;

Ensuring the promotion and sale of services produced in the international tourism market;

Obtaining maximum profit as a result of the implementation of these measures.

The listed tasks of marketing are the essence of his concept, which is based on the fact that the availability of accessible markets and consumer demand for international tourism is the starting point for the marketing activities of a travel agency. Developing a marketing program

a travel agency engaged in international tourism should have a clear idea of:

Where is the market (sales territory);

Who are potential tourists - target segments;

How many tourists - target segments;

What tourist product are potential tourists in demand;

When this demand manifests itself;

What prices will be acceptable for potential tourists.

In other words, marketing should help the tourism company to offer and sell its services in the place, in such quantity and quality, as well as at such time and at such prices that would best suit the selected group of international tourists.

With a positive assessment of these initial positions, the travel agency can plan and implement the entire range of marketing activities, namely, use such technological and management tools as the development of a new tourist product and planning its production, pricing, promotion, distribution and sale of the tourist product, allowing to achieve the main goal of marketing. Depending on market conditions, the set of these funds may vary. However, due to the modern complex and often unstable internal and external environment it is necessary to use the so-called integrated marketing (marketing mix), which provides for the mobilization of all internal and external resources and opportunities available to the travel agency.

In the following sections, all the main elements of integrated international tourism marketing, their content, significance and interaction will be considered in detail.

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Principles of marketing in tourism

The essence of marketing in tourism defines its key principles. Among them:

focus on economic results;
the complexity of the approach to achieve the intended goals;
accounting market conditions and requirements and at the same time targeted impact To the market;
all goals should be developed for the long term;
active, offensive and enterprising steps in the process of responding to external stimuli.

Being a specific economic phenomenon, tourism marketing should be used under a number of conditions:

saturation of the market with tourist services;
the presence of acute competition between travel companies for the client;
free market relations.

The first of these conditions determine the relevance of the marketing approach. The third condition is designed to ensure the effectiveness of the use of marketing in a particular enterprise. A travel company, as an economically independent entity, must apply a systematic approach to managing its marketing activities, since in the presence of fierce competition, the unsystematic management makes it a weak link in the market.

Key functions of marketing in tourism

It is customary to single out such key functions of marketing in tourism as:

establishing contact with the client in order to convince him that this service fully meets his needs and expectations;
development for the purpose of designing innovations to find new markets and distribution channels;
control, which involves the analysis of the results of marketing activities for their effectiveness.

Thus, with the help of marketing, it is possible not only to effectively meet market needs, but to increase the competitiveness of a tourism enterprise.

Remark 1

So, marketing ensures not only the effective satisfaction of market needs, but also the success of the enterprise in the competitive struggle.

Tourism is one of the leading and most dynamic industries in the global service sector. Due to its rapid growth, tourism has been recognized as an economic phenomenon of the 20th century. The Russian tourism market is also developing.

The volume of the Russian tourism market has been progressively increasing throughout the last decade. In 2012, its volume (compared to 2011) increased by 14% (or by 149 billion rubles), exceeding 1 trillion rubles (about 1.7% of Russia's GDP). If the current growth rate is maintained, in 2013 the tourist services market will reach 1.35 trillion rubles.

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The prerequisites for the positive dynamics of the tourism market in the Russian Federation are the growth of the solvency of the population and the consistent development of tourism infrastructure, the growth in the level of penetration of remote banking services, the Internet and Internet services in our country.

The tourism industry is one of the brightest examples of the introduction, development and active use of information and communication technologies in the world. Book tickets, choose and pay for a hotel room in any city around the world at any time, anywhere with the help of mobile device, using electronic ways payment is becoming commonplace for tourists of all ages with a wide range of income levels.

The tourism services market is moving towards greater transparency and accessibility for the end consumer. According to Aviation EXplorer 1, the growth in the share of travel services processed on the Internet was recognized as the most noticeable trend in Russian market in 2012. The structure of demand is changing, shifting towards self-registration of tourist services on the Internet by the population.

The development of the tourism market in the Russian Federation will inevitably lead to an increase in the level of competition in this sector of the economy, which, in turn, will require companies operating in the tourism industry to reconsider their attitude to the role of marketing in the company. In order to remain competitive in the new environment, travel industry companies need to move from a consumer-oriented culture to a market-oriented one.

At present, a unified approach to the definition of marketing in tourism has not yet been developed. Therefore, we will consider different views on the problem.

? formation of contacts with consumers of tourist services;
? development of contacts through innovation;
? control over the results of the service.

Establishing contacts with clients aims to convince them that the proposed holiday destination and the services, attractions and expected benefits that exist there are fully consistent with what the clients themselves want to receive.

The development of contacts involves the design of innovations that can provide new sales opportunities. Such innovations should meet the needs and preferences of potential customers.

1 http://www.aex.ru
2 Adopted at the international WTO conference in Budapest in February 1993.

Control involves the analysis of the results of activities to promote goods and services to the market and check whether the results reflect the full and successful use of the opportunities available in the tourism sector, comparative analysis advertising expenses marketing events and income received.

French scientists R. Lankar and R. Ollier give the following definition of tourism marketing: “Tourist marketing is a series of basic methods and techniques developed for research, analysis and solving the tasks. The main thing that these methods and techniques should be aimed at is identifying the possibilities for the most complete satisfaction of people's needs in terms of psychological and social factors, as well as determining the ways of the most rational business management from a financial point of view by tourism organizations (enterprises, bureaus or associations), allowing to take into account the identified or hidden needs for tourism services. These kinds of needs can be determined either by recreational motives (entertainment, vacation, health, education, religion and sports) or by other motives that are often found in business groups, families, various missions and unions.

The Swiss specialist E. Kriiendorf puts a more complete content into the concept of tourism marketing: “Tourist marketing is a systematic change and coordination of the activities of tourism enterprises, as well as private and public policies in the field of tourism, carried out according to regional, national or international plans. The purpose of such changes is to best meet the needs of certain consumer groups, while taking into account the possibility of obtaining appropriate profits.

The concept of marketing in the field of tourism is developing in accordance with current trends development of marketing theory and service marketing theory.

The tourism product has distinctive characteristics inherent in the service described in the previous paragraph, namely, intangibility, inseparability from the source, perishability and variability of quality (4 "NOTs"), the four "NOTs" of tourism services as a product seriously affect the specifics of activities in the field of tourism.

To the traditional elements of the marketing mix: product - price - place - promotion, used in traditional marketing as a set of company-controlled strategies for influencing the consumer, in tourism it is recommended to use additional strategies for the marketing mix of services. These include:

? material environment ( physical evidence),
? maintenance process ( process) and staff (People).

Material environment ( physical evidence)(the atmosphere of a hotel, restaurant, office of a travel agency) involves working on the impact on the sensory channels of perception of customers: visual (organization of space, lighting, color), auditory (loudness and tempo of music accompaniment), olfactory (ventilation of the room), tactile (room temperature) one .

Maintenance Process (Process) guests, customers can be developed using diagrammatic design methods, common ground, customer scenario and reengineering 2 .

Staff (People) contact staff is the staff of the company, which simultaneously produces and sells a tourist service. Therefore, contact personnel in service marketing are sometimes called "part-time marketers" (part time marketers) 3 .

Together with the rest of the marketing mix strategies (product, price, distribution channels, promotion), these additional three elements form the tourism marketing mix.

The result of activities in tourism is a tourist product that has its own distinctive features:

? the demand for tourism services is elastic in relation to the level of income of the consumer and prices, subject to seasonal fluctuations;
? addiction tourism product from such variables as space and time;
? the offered tourist services are divided geographically: booking a tour in a travel agency, booking a hotel or air tickets via the Internet, tourists receive in the place of their permanent residence, transport services can be obtained during a tourist trip, hotel accommodation, participation in festivals, excursion services, meals - at the place of temporary stay;
? tourism product offering is characterized by inflexible production. Hotels, airports, museums, theme parks cannot be moved at the end of the tourist season to another region to accommodate changing demand and seasonality;
? assessment of the quality of the tourist product is highly subjective. Local residents, members of the tourist group can influence the perception of the quality of tourist service;
1 Innovators E. Features of behavior of consumers of services. Zh-l "Sales Management", 2003.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
? the assessment of the quality of a tourist product can be influenced by such factors as weather and natural conditions, political events.

The problem of defining a tourist product remains debatable. Consider the most common definitions of a tourist product presented in Table 1.

Tourism product definitions

Table 1

	Tourism product definition
	The policy of a tourist product can be considered and conducted from two positions: a certain territory and a certain enterprise.
Medlik S „ 1995	Tourist product in the narrow sense ( sensustricto) and in a broad sense ( sensulargo). Tourist product in the narrow sense - everything that tourists buy separately (for example, transport service, hotel reservation) or in the form of a service package. The tourism product in a broad sense covers the totality of the impressions received from the moment of departure from home until the moment of return.
Middleton V.T.C., 1996	A tourism product is a combination of three main components: attractiveness, tourism infrastructure, and their accessibility.
Middleton V.T.C., 1996	From the perspective of a potential customer considering any form of travel, a product can be defined as a package of tangible and intangible
Holloway J. Ch., Robinson Ch., 1997	A tourism product is a complex product that encompasses a place, services, and some tangible products.
Golembski G., 1998	A tourism product combines all goods and services created and acquired in connection with leaving one's place of permanent residence and before the start of the trip, and during the trip, and while staying outside one's home area.
Mazurkiewicz L., 2002	Tourism product - an arbitrary combination of place services and tourism services
Nowakowska A., 2002	A tourist product can be called a package of tangible and intangible components available on the market that allows realizing the purpose of a tourist trip.

As can be seen from Table 1, most often in approaches to the definition of a tourist product, a structural or component approach can be traced, where, along with material objects, various services, images, places, ideas, ideas are considered.

Less common are definitions of a tourism product that focus on meeting the needs and expectations of tourists (Middleton V.T.C.).

S. Medlik for the first time made an attempt to combine two points of view on the tourism product, considering it in a narrow and broad sense.

Thus, the tourism product can be considered from three positions:

1) from the position of a tour operator company (intermediation area);
2) from the position of territorial authorities (the scope of supply);
3) from the position of the client (the sphere of demand).

According to federal law No. 132-FZ "On the basics of tourism activities in Russian Federation"tourist product - a set of transportation and accommodation services provided for a total price (regardless of the inclusion in the total price of the cost of excursion services and (or) other services) under an agreement on the sale of a tourist product."

According to this definition tourist product is identified with the concept of tour. They should be distinguished. Tour performs integral part tourism product. It is a set of primary services that a tour operator provides on a specific route and in a specific period of time. As a rule, the tour includes transportation, accommodation and meals according to the type chosen by the tourist. Tourist product is a much broader definition.

Let's consider a simplified classification of tourist products according to the characteristic elements that determine the essence of the tourist product (Table 2).

As you can see, the tourism product is diverse and is created by the efforts of many enterprises and organizations, and each of them has its own methods of work, technologies, specific goals and objectives but the creation, promotion and implementation of a tourism product using various tools. marketing policy. This objectively creates great organizational difficulties in coordinating actions in the production, supply and sale of a tourist product and ensuring a high level of tourist service. At the same time, it should also be taken into account that the ultimate goals and content of the marketing process for enterprises involved in the creation, promotion and sale of a tourist product are also different. There are several levels of marketing organization in tourism:

? marketing at the level of tour operators and travel agents;
? marketing at the level of territories and regions - tourist destinations.

Classification of tourism products

table 2

tourist product		An example of a tourism product
Tourist	Material object - a guidebook, a tourist map, tourist equipment, souvenirs, multimedia products: multimedia city plans, guides to museums and historical sites, presentations of regions on websites on the Internet, mobile applications	Virtual travels of the Kizhi Museum Reserve (http://kizhi.karelia.ru/); Virtual walks around the Russian Museum (http://www:virtualrm.spb.ru/) Virtual tours through the streets of London (http://virtualizacija.ru/)
Tourist product - service	Single service - hotel, gastronomic, transport, excursion, etc.	Booking a hotel room, lunch in a restaurant, air ticket, etc.
Tourist product - event	Thematic focus of the event, specific localization in time and space	Tourist exhibitions - WorldTravelMarket (London), ITB (Berlin), MITT (Moscow), INTURMARKET (Moscow); Oktoberfest (Wiesn, Munich); Olympic Games Sochi 2014; Cartoon Festival (http://www.multfest.ru/); music festival "White Nights" in St. Petersburg and etc.
Tourist	A tour that includes a certain set of services (transportation, accommodation, meals, excursions	"All Spain" (http://www.natalie-tours.ru/); Music Festival

The ending

tourist product	Characteristics of the tourism product	An example of a tourism product
	etc.), the total sale value of which is equal to the value of its elements	in Sanremo (http://www.tez-tour.com); "Petersburg every day", etc.
Tourist product - display object	The presence of one main attraction (service) and several additional services located in one place - a museum, a historical monument, a natural monument, etc.	St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, the Kremlin in Moscow, Madame Tussauds in London
Tourist product - route	Several places or objects united by a certain idea and interconnected by a specially marked route (pedestrian, water, automobile), with a developed infrastructure, the elements of which are located along the route	"Golden Ring" (Russia), Wine and gastronomic tour (Nice - Avignon - Marseille), Die Goldene Strasse (Nuremberg - Pilsen - Prague)
Tourist product - place	Region, locality, national park, etc., identified on the basis of a specific spatial localization and having the character of a tourist attraction	Paris, Disneyland, Carinthia - the land of lakes

At the same time, marketing at the level of tour operators and travel agents and marketing at the level of tourism service providers belong to the field of commercial marketing, and marketing at the level of the national tourism administration and marketing at the level of territories belong to the field of non-commercial marketing.

The comprehensive nature of the concept of marketing in tourism involves consideration of the marketing process at various levels of management of the creation, formation, promotion and implementation of a tourist product. The subjects of the marketing process are not only commercial enterprises, but also public authorities in the field of tourism, as well as the territory.

On fig. Figure 9 presents an approach to the concept of marketing in tourism as a system based on a three-dimensional coordinate system.

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On a functional basis at all levels of formation of a tourist product, it is necessary to use the tools of strategic and tactical (operational) marketing.

Strategic and operational marketing complement each other and find their concrete expression within the marketing policy.

Operational marketing focuses on such variables as price, distribution system, sales, advertising and promotion of goods, strategic marketing focuses on selection commodity markets where the company has a competitive advantage and the forecast of total demand in each of the target markets. Based on this forecast, operational marketing sets goals for the development of market share, as well as the marketing budget necessary for this.

No matter how powerful an operational marketing plan is, it cannot create demand where there is no need and cannot sustain a line of business that is doomed to disappear. Therefore, to be profitable, operational marketing must be based on strategic marketing, which, in turn, is based on the needs of the market and its expected evolution.

Market orientation is the main condition that determines the sustainable economic growth of a company operating in the tourism industry.

On a structural basis in the field of tourism, marketing of goods and marketing of services can be distinguished. The combination of trade in services and trade in goods in tourism, according to experts, is 75% and 25%, respectively.

When developing marketing strategies for companies operating in the field of tourism - travel agencies, hotels, catering establishments, tourist display facilities, it is necessary to take into account the specifics of the "intangible" product. The development of a marketing program should not only build on the traditional elements of the marketing mix, but also need to involve additional elements - the service delivery process, contact personnel (personnel working in direct contact with guests and customers) and the physical environment.

Experience of international hotel chains such as Hyatt, FourSeasons, Marriott, Intercontinental and others, large tour operators - TUI, Carlson tourism indicates that the key competence in the field of tourism is the strategy of "precautionary and perfect service".

Creating a system of perfect service that meets the values of the clients of tourism enterprises is a long-term competitive advantage that cannot be copied.

In this regard, the main task is to establish a connection between the needs and expectations of customers and the internal processes of creating a value model for customers in the tourism industry, aimed at meeting these needs.

The customer value model includes five main elements that determine the customer's perception of value and level of satisfaction. These are the quality of the product itself, the quality of service through the technology of its provision, the image of the enterprise, the price and the relationship between the service provider, the client and the contact staff of the tourism company.

The implementation of the customer value model is facilitated by the internal marketing assets of the tourism company, which include:

? image of a tourism enterprise, its level corporate culture;
? technology for organizing the process of quality customer service, a system of service quality indicators;
? client base tourism companies and Information system data about the opinions and preferences of customers;
? a system of service quality indicators, a system for tracking customer complaints;
? control system by human resourses, including the principles of training the personnel of a tourism company, empowering personnel, studying the degree of satisfaction of personnel with their work, i.e. Availability of qualified and motivated staff.

Each of these elements is a direct result of the work of various processes within a tourism company.

Providing quality customer service will:

? stand out from competitors;
? enhance the attractiveness of your image in the eyes of customers;
? minimize sensitivity to price changes;
? increase the profitability of the work;
? improve customer satisfaction and retention;
? to gain the maximum number of supporters of the tourism company who promote its services;
? raise your reputation;
? increase the degree of staff loyalty.

Achieving sustainable competitive advantage by a tourism company is possible on the basis of the introduction of the concept of internal marketing.

The concept of internal marketing is to combine the motivation of employees and the formation of their professional knowledge for the identity of the brand of the tourism company. The motivation and high level of knowledge of employees is the source of high quality services.

The implementation of the concept of internal marketing will allow building the relationship "loyal staff - loyal customer - company profitability". The output of this process will be the developed technology of quality customer service and its control, a system of performance evaluation of personnel depending on customer satisfaction, a marketing information system of a tourism company that gives staff the opportunity to provide quality customer service, as well as the education of loyal employees who provide excellent service.

This approach differs from the traditional promotion of a product in the field of tourism, since it is aimed not at solving current issues of attracting and retaining customers, but at building a system of relationships with customers on a long-term basis.

The implementation of external marketing strategies implies organizational changes within the tourism company, primarily related to the distribution of resources, organizational structure and building relationships with clients. Thus, the most careful attention should be paid to working on the organizational environment through internal marketing in order to achieve the goals of the company as a whole.

In the service marketing models discussed in Section 1.2, Western marketers recognize the need to use internal marketing as an additional strategy. A characteristic feature of these models is the attitude to the personnel of the service sector enterprise as to an internal client. Motivation of personnel, satisfaction of their needs contribute to the growth of the quality of customer service of the company.

Internal marketing has the same theoretical base as traditional marketing. A feature is the object and subject of study of the concept of internal marketing.

The object of internal marketing are employees of a tourism company and its internal environment considered in terms of customer expectations and perceptions.

The task of internal marketing is to create an environment within the company that is as customer-oriented as possible.

By subjective can be distinguished:

? marketing at the level of public tourism organizations - national tourism administrations (NTAs); tourist information centers, public associations in the field of tourism;
? marketing at the level of territories and regions - tourist destinations;
? marketing at the level of producers of tourist services - accommodation facilities, catering enterprises, transport enterprises, excursion service enterprises, etc.;
? marketing of tour operators and travel agents.

The presence of a marketing strategy is a necessary element not only in the activities of individual companies in the tourism industry, but also in coordinating and regulatory bodies and organizations in this area.

The tourism marketing strategy within the state is to implement its tourism policy. Tourism policy of the state - set government measures and measures that determine the conditions for the development of the tourism industry, the rational use of tourism resources, increasing the contribution of the tourism industry to the country's GDP.

The tourism marketing strategy at the state level is reflected in the adoption of relevant legislation, state long-term programs and plans. The state, entering the international tourism market, enters into a system of competitive relations with other states and regions of the world. The role and place of the state in the global tourism market depends on how correctly and effectively the strategy of tourism marketing is built and implemented. The state tourism marketing strategy is aimed at creating, promoting and selling a national tourism product in the global tourism market and within the country, i.e. is aimed at the development of international and domestic tourism. A state entering the international tourism market enters into a system of competitive relations with other states, entire world regions. The tourism marketing strategy is reflected in the adoption of relevant legislation, state long-term programs and plans. The role and place of a particular state in the global tourism market depends on how correctly and effectively the tourism marketing strategy is built and implemented.

1 Karpova G.BUT.,Khoreva L.V. Economics and management of tourism activities: a textbook in 2 parts. Part 1. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of St. Petersburg State University of Economics, 2011.

The national tourism product is a set of available natural, climatic, natural, historical, architectural and cultural resources attracted and used in tourism activities, tourism and related infrastructure, as well as the activities of tourism companies, expressed in the creation, promotion and implementation of specific tourism products aimed at to attract tourists from other states and regions of the world.

In the activities of the state, the concept of marketing in tourism is based on the analysis of market opportunities, the choice of target markets, and the development of a marketing mix. The implementation of these components allows you to correctly develop the tourism policy of the state, i.e. state tourism marketing strategy. The main link in the implementation of state tourism marketing is government agency responsible for the state and development of tourism in general - the national tourism administration (NTA). In the Russian Federation, this role is played by the Federal Tourism Agency of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

The tourist policy of the state is based on strategy and tactics.

Tourism strategy - the development of a general concept for the development of tourism at the international and domestic markets, targeted programs, the implementation of which requires time and large financial resources. For example, at a meeting of the Presidium of the Government of the Russian Federation on July 28, 2011, the Federal Target Program "Development of domestic and inbound tourism in the Russian Federation (2011-2018)" was adopted. The implementation of the Program will increase the competitiveness of the domestic tourism market, create conditions for the development of tourism infrastructure, and attract investment in the industry. The activities of the Program are also aimed at increasing the efficiency of promoting the national tourism product in the domestic and international markets. This program is an example of Russia's strategy in the field of tourism.

To implement this strategy, a number of measures (tourist tactics) are proposed, including:

? zoning of the territory of tourism in the state;
? creation regulatory framework development of tourism, corresponding to international practice;
? formation economic mechanisms stimulating the development of foreign and domestic tourism;
? attracting investments in this area, etc.

The main objective of the concept of tourism marketing of the state is the creation of a national tourism product and its promotion in the global and domestic tourist markets. The implementation of the tourism marketing concept begins with an analysis of market opportunities, where we understand the state as a producer, a national tourist product as a product, other states or world regions as competitors, and tourists from other countries as consumers.

At the territorial level, there is a refinement of the national strategy for promoting the tourist product, the specification of projects, territories and tourist destinations is determined. The main attention is paid to the development of a general policy and strategy for development programs, marketing, for example:

? the creation of large transport systems for the transport of tourists to and from the country, as well as through its territory;
? protection of attractions, such as state reserves and national parks;
? creation of an information and advertising system dedicated to the promotion of destinations and countries as tourist centers.

The tourist essence of each region can be revealed more deeply and its tourist product is promoted more effectively when allocated within the region. various kinds tourism products by destination.

World tourism organization(UNWTO, UNWTO) singles out tourist destinations as the main elements in the tourism system, which attracts a tourist to make a trip and where he spends some time 1 . Tourist destination includes tourist attractions, tourist infrastructure, related services.

In the context of global competition, when tourist destinations become products - substitutes, destination management bodies are included in the competition for the attention of tourists and investment resources for the development of the destination.

Destination marketing can be defined as management process, within which the destination management authorities and business determine the target groups of tourists, establish communications with them in order to find out the preferences of tourists, their expectations, the motivation for choosing a travel destination in order to adapt the tourist product in accordance with the expectations of tourists to achieve their maximum satisfaction.

UNWTO data show that in order to additionally attract one foreign tourist, providing an average of 1,000 euros to the country's economy, the state spends from 3 to 10 euros on non-commercial advertising of a tourist product. Accordingly, the average volume budget funds, allocated in European countries for the promotion of the tourism product, is 31.7 million euros 2 .

1 Pike S. Destination branding. An integrated marketing communication approach. - Oxford: Elsevier, 2008.
2 Page S.J., Connell J. Tourism: a Modern Synthesis. - London: Cengage Learning EMEL, 2009.

Tourism destination marketing is part of a broader concept of territory management - territorial marketing. Territorial marketing is marketing in the interests of the territory, its internal subjects, as well as external subjects, in whose attention and actions the territory is interested. Territorial marketing is carried out with the aim of creating, maintaining or changing the opinions, intentions and behavior of residents and non-residents in the person of individuals and companies regarding a given territory. The founder of the concept of territorial marketing is Philip Kotler. In his work Marketingplaces, he notes that location marketing is successful when the main target audiences- residents and businesses are satisfied with their region, and when the region meets the expectations and needs of visitors and investors. This is a philosophy of territory management that contributes to its socio-economic development by meeting the needs of individuals and economic entities in resources for the purpose of living and (or) doing business in the territory, regardless of the specific level of territorial formation - region, country, city.

Before the emergence of the concept of territory marketing and destination marketing as its integral part, "selling territories" was the dominant form of promotion of regions. However, destination marketing is part of the general concept of the development of the territory and works for an integrated sustainable socio-economic development.

The basis of the marketing approach to destination management is the consideration of a tourist destination as a complex tourist product, consisting of:

? destination attractions - what directly attracts tourists (natural, cultural, historical attractions);
? tourist infrastructure (accommodation facilities, catering establishments, tour agencies, museums, souvenir shops, etc.);
? accessibility (transport, visa, etc.);
? event calendar;
? support services (banks, telecommunications, security system, healthcare system);
? the presence of marketing intermediaries - tour operators, travel agents, etc.

Destination marketing approach involves the development of a complex destination product. And here it is important to understand that a tourist is not going to visit a hotel, a beach, a restaurant. He travels to get new sensations, the opportunity for intercultural enrichment, for the sake of improving health, etc. Tourists are attracted not by the characteristics of the destination, but by their functional ability to satisfy certain needs.

The destination marketing strategy should determine what tourism resources the destination has, what tourism product can be developed based on them, who this tourism product is aimed at, how it will be promoted and what resources are needed for this.

The destination marketing strategy is an integral part of the region's marketing strategy for the development of tourism, which includes the development of infrastructure, the optimization of local legislation in relation to the tourism sector in the region, the distribution financial flows, attraction of investments, development of public-private partnership in the field of tourism.

Tourism enterprises producing various services - hotel business, catering, excursion activities - are an integral part of the complex tourist product of the destination, as well as a sphere of joint interests of business and local authorities on the implementation of projects on the construction of hotels, theme parks, the development of a food system, etc. on the terms of public-private partnership.

test questions

1. Give the characteristic of the market of tourist services.
2. Describe the concept of "tourist product".
3. Types of tourism products.
4. What are the features of the formation of the concept of marketing in tourism?
5. Describe the levels of formation of the tourist product.
6. Why is the tourist destination the basis of the tourism system?

http://www.gks.ru Kiryanova L.G. Destination marketing as a modern approach to tourism region management. - Bulletin of the Tomsk Polytechnic University, 2010.

Business is aimed at making a profit. Ways to make a profit are very diverse - for example, optimizing the tax base, reducing costs, playing on the stock exchange, etc. Marketing, on the other hand, is designed to increase profits from the sale of goods by meeting the needs of buyers more effectively than competitors do.

The term "marketing" appeared in the economic literature at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. At its core English word market(market). The term derived from it marketing» (marketing) literally means market activity, work in the market.

The emergence of marketing as an independent field of activity and as a science was due to the development of market relations, market saturation and increased competition for consumer preferences. Serious problems in the marketing of manufactured goods have necessitated the search for and use of special techniques and tools that allow the company to successfully operate in the market, increase sales and make a profit.

Marketing as economic category has a very capacious content, which leads to a wide variety of its definitions. The most famous of them belongs to the American specialist F. Kotler: "marketing is a type of human activity aimed at meeting needs and requirements through exchange". It reflects the complexity of the concept of "marketing", the applicability of its tools in various areas of human activity, but due to the high level of generalization, it does not clearly identify the specific essential characteristics of marketing. This can be achieved by considering marketing as:

economic process;
economic function of the enterprise;
management concept.

Marketing as an economic process is an activity aimed at promoting goods from the one who produces them (producer) to the one who needs them (consumer). From this point of view, marketing provides contact between the producer and the consumer, improves the efficiency of their exchanges. As a consequence, it is a means of minimizing the mismatch between supply and demand. In this capacity, marketing establishes and constantly maintains not only commodity, but also information exchange between potential market participants. The need for it is the higher, the more producers on the market supply homogeneous goods to consumers who need them. It is the developed market environment (the buyer's market) that is a necessary prerequisite for the effective functioning of marketing, which provides the conditions under which the potential contact between the producer and the consumer becomes a real act of sale.

Marketing as an economic function, together with such areas of activity as production, finance, personnel, is carried out by all enterprises - regardless of size, form of ownership and the scope of capital investment.

Initially, marketing was considered as one of the numerous and equal functions of the enterprise, then as an economic function prevailing over others, and, finally, as an integrating economic function. At the same time, we are not talking about dividing economic functions into main and secondary ones, but about subordinating them to the general idea of identifying, anticipating and satisfying the needs emerging in the market.

Definitely and unambiguously list all types of work that includes marketing as an economic function of the enterprise, it is quite difficult. Meanwhile, there is no doubt about its role in market research, the formation of an optimal product offer, the organization of promotion of goods, ensuring feedback with consumers.

Marketing as a management concept or business philosophy suggests that all activities of an enterprise should be carried out with constant consideration of the state of the market and be based on accurate knowledge of the needs and requirements of potential buyers, their assessment and consideration of possible changes in the future. To produce not only those quantities that can be produced, but to produce only what the buyer needs - this is the credo of the enterprise that implements the concept of marketing.

Marketing as a management concept involves, on the one hand, a thorough, comprehensive and systematic study of the needs, tastes and preferences of consumers, orientation of production to them, ensuring targeting of goods offered to the market. On the other hand, it provides for a purposeful and active influence on the market, on the formation of needs and consumer preferences. Specifying these provisions in relation to the enterprise, which is the main link entrepreneurial activity, we can say that marketing includes:

identification of customer needs;
developing and offering to the market goods that are necessary for buyers and are able to satisfy their needs;
setting prices that are acceptable to buyers and provide sufficient profit to the seller;
choosing the most profitable and convenient ways to bring goods to consumers;
substantiation and use of methods and means of active influence on the market in order to form demand and stimulate sales.

Each of these areas is important in itself. However, there is no doubt that the value and significance of each of them is of greatest importance when they are considered and implemented in unity and integrity. In this case, we are talking about using the concept of marketing, when the profit of an enterprise is ensured not by imposing manufactured goods on customers, but by satisfying their needs more efficiently than competitors do. Thus, a balance is achieved between the interests of producers and consumers.

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