Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.20867/thm.13.3.3
Prerequisites to the success of hotel products
Vlado Galicic
; Faculty of tourism and hospitality management, University of Rijeka, Opatija, Croatia
Slobodan Ivanovic
; Faculty of tourism and hospitality management, University of Rijeka, Opatija, Croatia
Abstract
Actual basic characteristics of tourist movements of globalization, standardization, market segmentation and computerization, impose to the responsible managers the need of defining that kind of hotel product which would be so attractive with its content to find that part of the consumers which will finally
consume that product. This fact goes in favor to the fact that for the entire hotel offer is important the element of exploration of tourist market and defining the segment of tourist demand which has to draw attention, wake up the interest, provoke the desire and initiate on the action with its attractiveness. The hotel product, as the first element of marketing mix, is made of material and unmaterial services which are offered to the hotel guests, and same thing is with hotel service that is in fact a group of many services with which we fulfill the guest’s needs of accommodation, food and drink, and other services that are paid in the usual way in hotelery. When it is mentioned usual and specific hotelery way that means the way on which the guest will satisfy his own needs and motives of traveling. Working we explore the necessary assumptions which have to be fullfiled for better placing of hotel product on the more squemish and demanding tourist market.
Keywords
hotel industry; management; hotel product
Hrčak ID:
181073
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2007.
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