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SYLLABUS
SUBJECT: MARKETING OF TOURISM AND RECREATIONAL SERVICES
TEACHER: PAWEŁ ŁUKA, PHD
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Introduction: Marketing for Tourism and Recreational Services
Service Characteristics of Tourism and Recreation
The Role of Marketing in Strategic Planning
The Marketing Environment
Marketing Information Systems and Marketing Research
Consumer Markets and Consumer Buying Behavior
Organizational Buyer Behavior of Group Market
Market Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning
Designing and Managing Products
Internet Marketing
Pricing Products: Pricing Considerations, Approaches, and Strategy
Distribution Channels
Promoting Products: Communication and Promotion Policy and Advertising
Promoting Products: Public Relations and Sales Promotion
Professional Sales
Destination Marketing
ECTS: 5 CREDITS
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Students should be able to understand the relationships between the world’s tourism and
recreational products, define marketing and outline the steps in the marketing process, explain
the relationships between customer value and satisfaction, understand why the marketing
concept calls for a customer orientation, understand the concept of the lifetime value of a
customer and be able to relate it to customer loyalty and retention, describe a service culture,
explain marketing strategies, discuss the benefits of tourism, explain tourism strategies and
different options for creating and investing in tourism attractions, understand how to segment
and identify visitor segments, explain how central tourist agencies are organized.
GRADING POLICY
Active participation, assignments, presentations, group works, final test
TIMETABLE
Lectures and Classes: To be announced
TEXTBOOK AND REQUIRED MATERIALS
Kotler P., Bowen J. T., Makens J. C., (2010), Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, Pearson
Prentice Hall
Levens M., (2010), Marketing, Pearson Higher Education
PREREQUISITES:
Studies in Economics