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1. LUX Travel Marketing for Emerging Markets. Prof. Dr. ige Pirnar YasaR University ige.pirnar@yasar.edu.tr. LUX TRAVEL CLOUD????.
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1 LUX TravelMarketing forEmergingMarkets Prof. Dr. igePirnar YasaRUniversity ige.pirnar@yasar.edu.tr
LUX TRAVEL CLOUD???? Experience *ElegantSimplicity* Creativity * Discovery * Exploration * Search for the Authentic * Local Food & Drink& Lifestyle* Local Culture * Customised Special UniquePackages*ContiniousSpecilizedConcierge Services * Active Tourists * Experimentation & Participation as a Guest* NicheProductsforLifestyle * Keywords: Localty, Health, Ecology, Looking Good, Adventure, Quality, Stories * Value & Affordable Luxury *Mobile & Digital Marketing * Open to New Ideas * Art * Architecture * Design*Unusual & Chic
LUX TRAVEL MARKetDeMAND profile • Have interest in discovering newhotels, new travelsites &newdestinations. • More privacy / less ostentation: a quieter, more discreet style of luxury • Have environmental, sustainable& cultural awareness. • A growing interest in off-the-beaten-track destinations • Emotionally linked to the local values, hotel / destinationexperiences & stories • Independent travellerprefferingspecilizedhobbypackages, wanttolivethelocalexperience & be a part of it / learn it • Have growing anxiety about health & safety • Generating demand for better quality, more value for money &lookingforgreater flexibility • More stressed out - looking for relief & convenience. • More technology friendly, often using internet for booking & purchasing tourism products
Suggestions • Offer personalized experiential luxury to build loyalty (accounts for 55% of total luxury) • Plan once-in-a-lifetime experiences for guests; important for emerging markets • Offer the exclusive experiences that money alone can’t buy to keep lux travel segment interested. • Continually look for new ways to personally delight each client. • Offer opportunities to guets to participate in the activities of local cultures.
Suggestions • Applyinnovative managerial strategies for differential advantage • Optimize internetand social media • Discovery of more local tastes, different cultural sites,heritage & monuments are discovered yearly more luxury travellers • Apply creative tourism / creative - activeculturetourism: travel programs withagri-tourism production, cooking local food, carpet-weaving classes, painting on ceramics or volunteer archeology travel
Suggestions • Application of co-marketing orpartnership marketing forsynergy • Appealingto different affluentsegments (niche groups, responsibletravelers, green travelers etc.) • Having relatedstories • Tailor made luxury travel industry products / services for not-optimized demographics (like children / women) • Applying psychology in order to interpret the varying personality traits of the lux travel market segments
Suggestions • Appling “advanced analytics” • Integrating mobile usage (convergence of location-based & social-aware) • Following up the technological enhancements • Optimize internet and social media • Offersustainable products & services • Serving totally new tourism products & / or new services: lookforinnovativeproducts
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Lux Travel Marketing Cloud???? *UniqueExperience *EmphasizeElegantSimplicity* Specilize in Creative / innovativeTourism* ApplyCo-marketing & Partnership Marketing*Offer Active culturaltourism* OfferProductsforNiche travel – Hobby Travel *OfferAuthenticity*Focus on Marketing Local Food & Drink & Lifestyle*SellLocal Culture *OfferCustomised Special UniquePackages*OfferTailoredMade High QualityProductsFor Special Groups (interested in ex. GastronomyTourism, Wine Tourism, Dark Tourism, Archaeological Tours, Bird Watching Tours, Festival Tourism, Special Events Tours, HealthTourism, Adventure tourism) *Value & PriceRatio*Optimize Mobile & Digital Marketing *Be Open to New ideas *EmphasizeSustainability, Stories, Unusual & Chic Design * *Personalization & Tour Design Tailoring
A SuccessfulInnovativeAffluent Travel Destination: Seferihisar / Cittaslow
Theme is Based on: • Slow City • Organic Food, Local Food, Slow Food • Sustainable Tourism • Sustainable Destination
SuitableMix of 8 P’s: Advertisement, Product, Pricing Logo, image, PartnershipAccordingly
“The industry needs hybrid thinkers and hybrid solutions.. But this industry is NOT sufficiently innovative and creative to deliver.” Claus SendlingerCEO, Design Hotels, 2011