How Consumers Pick a Hotel - William Winston, Dennis J Cahill

How Consumers Pick a Hotel

Strategic Segmentation and Target Marketing
Buch | Softcover
174 Seiten
1997
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7890-0184-9 (ISBN)
59,80 inkl. MwSt
Venture through the pages of How Consumers Pick a Hotel to learn the steps of selecting a target and using consumer behavior applications to segment the market to reach your target. Much as a consumer goes through the process of selecting a satisfying hotel, you can choose to use the information provided to make your hospitality career relaxing and satisfying. When you finish this fantastic reading journey, you’ll be prepared to offer services that meet the public’s demands, and you’ll possess the prerequisite knowledge and skills for developing your own strategic approach to a target market. As the many methods of segmentation are discussed in detail, you will also learn effective strategies for communicating with multiple segments. Ideal as a supplementary text for marketing and hospitality marketing courses, How Consumers Pick a Hotel provides a concise overview of consumer behavior and intertwines marketing theory with sound ways in which to implement the theory. This will both orient you and give you a solid base for understanding the principles in question. You will quickly grasp the various methods of segmentation, and the book’s “real-life” segmentation schemes will teach you how to apply them in day-to-day business.As the many methods of segmentation are discussed in detail, you will learn effective strategies for communicating with multiple segments. In the end, you will have acquired the prerequisite knowledge and skills for developing your own strategic approach to a target market. How Consumers Pick a Hotel is suitable both as a reference guide for practicing marketing managers and hospitality professionals who specialize in marketing and as a companion text for graduates and undergraduates who need to know the ABCs of target marketing. You’ll turn to it again and again for guidance and practical, easy suggestions!

William Winston, Dennis J Cahill

Contents
Preface



Part I. Getting Ready
Chapter 1. “How Do You Pick a Hotel?”: A Brief Look at Consumer Behavior
Chapter 2. Strategic Planning and Implications
Part II: Segmentation Strategies
Chapter 3. Physical Attribute Segmentation
Chapter 4. Behavioral Attribute Segmentation
Chapter 5. Industrial Segmentation
Part III: Translating Segmentation in Marketing Strategy
Chapter 6. What Now?
Chapter 7. Perceptual Mapping
Chapter 8. Marketing Communications
Chapter 9. Finally: Which Segmentation Technique?
Appendix: Case Applications of Segmentation
Introduction to the Cases
Case 1: VALspeak and an Organization’s Culture
Case 2: Typing Focus Groups for Product/Service Design
Case 3: A Proprietary Segmentation Scheme
What Do the Cases Tell Us?
References
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 18.6.1997
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 249 g
Themenwelt Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Marketing / Vertrieb
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
Weitere Fachgebiete Handwerk
ISBN-10 0-7890-0184-5 / 0789001845
ISBN-13 978-0-7890-0184-9 / 9780789001849
Zustand Neuware
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