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Segmentation: By definition
Segmentation by purpose Psychographic (cognitive-normative) Interactional
III. The Needs and Impacts of Different Types of Tourists IV. Types of Tourists and Economic Policy of Destinations
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I. Segmentation
* Segmentation: to classify customers into several groups or categories in terms of their common preferences and needs * Two main reasons for segmentation:
1. To rationalize marketing efforts of suppliers 2. To examine various economic limitations and contribution, thus formulate policy based on behavioral or psychological economics
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I. Segmentation by Purpose:
1. Segmentation by Purpose (cont.) Recreational or Leisure travels and VFR can be seen as final demand while business travel is mostly a derived demand or secondary demand.
Recreational Travelers are subject to personal economic constraints but Business Travelers are largely institutionalized and limited by corporate economics.
Leisure travel demand is more income and price elastic than business travelers.
Incentive travel is specific and both Business and Leisure Travels
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2. Psychographic Segmentation (cont.) * (a) Allocentric: highly venturesome; make own travel arrangements, visit remote and unfamiliar destinations, learn local culture, and rarely repeat visit to the same place.
(b) Mid-centric: liking to explore but with comfort; uses travel distributors, but make own package, travel reasonably far but to known destinations, balance novelty with home comforts.
(c) Psychocentric: disliking unfamiliarity and risks; use organized inclusive tours (package tours), travel often to familiar destinations culturally similar to home, board in mass accommodation or, often 7 repeat visit.
3. Interactional Segmentation: to segment tourists with respect to the effect on the tourism destination. (a) Explorer: small in numbers, virtually no consumption of tourism products, negligible economic impact (b) Elite: relatively small number, price-inelastic demand for very high quality products, may cause investment to follow into destinations.
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3. Interactional segmentation (contd.) (c) Hosted or second homers: constant travel demand, but boarded by hosts or in own accommodation, hence low consumption product, but cause increase in general local expenditure (d) Individual: numerous, wide ranging travel, demand maybe price-elastic, significant demand for domestic tourism products (e) Mass-or charter: very numerous, sectors of the travel industry wholly dependent on them, major impact and costs at destination, may cause significant investment in destination by generator owned business.
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III. The Needs and Impacts of Different Types of Tourists
Variations between types of tourists: 1. Length of stay: from a week to 30 days 2. Overall & seasonal demand stability:
(a) VFR and luxury recreational tourism is the least sensitive to demand variation (b) Leisure Travel is constrained by school vacations, work entitlements, climatic conditions (c) Business Travel is influenced by the long term stability of demand affected by economic cycle in Tourist Generating Regions.
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(b) Cruise passengers exhibit high repeat purchasing (because of strong brand loyalty)
(c) Repeat visiting decreases tourism marketing costs.
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TOURIST TYPES IV. The Type of Tourists and Economic Policy of Destinations
To maximize economic profits we need to: 1. to identify discrete tourist market segments 2. to assess the stability and demand patterns of each segment
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