Innovation in destination marketing

Baltic Journal of Management - Tập 6 Số 3 - Trang 378-399 - 2011
AndresKuusik1, MargusTiru2, ReinAhas3, UrmasVarblane1
1Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
2Positium LBS, Tartu, Estonia
3Department of Geography, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how technological innovation serves as an enabling factor to innovation in tourism management. The motivation of this paper is related to the question of how to innovate destination marketing as a tool to manage long‐term customer relationships.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use mobile positioning‐based research methods to measure visitors' behaviour. This provides new data for the detection and measurement of destination loyalty that could be used as valuable input to improve destination marketing strategy and develop new services.FindingsThe use of mobile positioning helps to improve the quality of data about tourism flows in Estonia. The authors were able to observe and measure the duration, timing, density, seasonality and dynamics of visitations. Further, it allowed also to distinguish repeat visitors. The rich dataset provided by passive mobile positioning (PMP) allowed the implementation of the proposed, more detailed, classification of segments of repeat visitors and the identification of not loyal, somewhat loyal, loyal, very loyal, functionally loyal and forced to be loyal visitors. This analysis made it possible to reveal transit, long‐term, one‐day and other specific visitors among repeat visitors.Originality/valueThe theoretical novelty of the paper consists in the creation of the innovation model of the destination marketing of the country and providing the new approach of segmentation of repeat visitors. Empirical novelty is the use of PMP in studying repeat visitations for destination marketing. The paper offers new ways for governments to shape service policies and allows tourism industry firms to offer new services.

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Baltic Journal of Management

Tập 6 Số 3

378-399

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