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Don't Try to Ride the Wave of 20th-Century Ministry Leaders, are you called to a place where Jesus' name is most often spouted as a curse word? Because in the 21st-century, the culture is shifting. The "easy places" are increasingly post-Christian-even pre-Christian. If you want to minister successfully right now, you must: - Learn the mind-shifts necessary to make disciples in the world as it exists today - Rethink outmoded ideas of funding, metrics, and team-building - Find out how to model a faith community that's relevant to the needs of the culture where God's called you to serve Refresh the way you think about starting, growing, and sustaining faith communities in the 21st century. Are you ready to ride the Next Wave?
Destination Marketing offers the reader an integrated and comprehensive overview of the key challenges and constraints facing destination marketing organisations (DMOs) and how destination marketing can be planned, implemented and evaluated to achieve successful destination competitiveness. This new second edition has been revised and updated to include: new slimline 15-chapter structure new chapters on Destination Competitiveness and Technology new and updated case studies throughout, including emerging markets new content on social media marketing in destination marketing organisations and sustainable destination marketing additional online resources for lecturers and students including PowerPoint slides, quizzes and discussion questions. It is written in an engaging style and applies theory to a range of tourism destinations at the consumer, business, national and international level by using topical examples.
Travellers are now spoilt by choice of available holiday destinations. In today's crowded tourism market place, destination competitiveness demands an effective marketing organisation. Two themes underpin Destination Marketing Organisations. The first is the challenges associated with promoting multi-attributed destinations in dynamic and heterogeneous markets, and the second is the divide between tourism 'practitioners' and academics. Written by a former 'practitioner', Destination Marketing Organisations bridges industry and theory by synthesising a wealth of academic literature of practical value to DMOs. Key learning outcomes are to enhance understanding of the fundamental issues relatin...
The tourism market is fiercely competitive. No other market place has as many brands competing for attention, and yet only a handful of countries account for 75% of the world’s visitor arrivals. The other 200 or so are left to fight for a share of the remaining 25%. Therefore, destination marketers at city, state and national levels have arguably, a far more challenging role than other services or consumer goods marketers. Destination Marketing: an integrated marketing communication approach focuses on the five core tenets of integrated marketing communications. These embody both the opportunities and challenges facing Destination Marketing Organisations (DMOs), and are: 1. Profitable cust...
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Natural disasters, wars and conflicts, epidemics, and other major crises can devastate a tourism service or destination. Though there is extensive literature and research on preparation and coping with tourism crises, there is a gap in information on how to best market and recover from the destruction of caused to tourism businesses and destinations. This book fills the gap by comprehensively examining how to rebuild the market for a tourism service or destination after a catastrophe. This important book presents leading experts from around the world providing useful instruction on effective ways to plan for future crisis response and strategies for recovering business. A crisis may arise fr...
The volume examines unconscious and conscious cognitions occurring before, during and following virtual and actual leisure-related planned and unplanned travel. It includes a global review of the literature on tourists' perceptions and assessments by Woodside and Metin.
This book examines and offers insights into original, transdisciplinary, conceptual, and methodological perspectives on gastronomic tourism experiences from both tourists and service providers’ perspectives. Gastronomic experiences for tourists can take many forms, including cooking classes, sustainable gastronomy, visiting farms, attending food festivals, and eating with locals in their home, among others. From an experiential marketing perspective, gastronomic tourist experiences provide an opportunity to further understand co-creation opportunities for chefs, destinations and other service providers. Service providers play a key role in packaging and promoting such experiences to differ...
2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. United Arab Emirates Energy Policy, Laws and Regulations Handbook Volume 2