Uluslararası Global Turizm Araştırmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Gözdegül BAŞER

Konular:Otelcilik, Konaklama, Spor ve Turizm

Anahtar Kelimeler:Digital marketing,Trends,Challenges,Tourism

Özet: ABSTRACT The tourism industry has been facing a tremendous change in services due to the fast developing digital and smart applications in technology. Digital marketing has been changing many types of operations and influencing many services. This research puts forward some of the trends and challenges for digital marketing for the tourism industry. It provides a broadened view over digital marketing in tourism basing on a qualitative research of semi-structured interviews with professionals from the sector. It is possible to conclude that trends in digital marketing from the aspect of tourism industry can be listed as changes in social media, future expectations, human touch, connected services, whereas challenges are the tremendous change, competitors and data management. Digital marketing is dependent on digital data which requires an integrated system and a high quality team to manage. Digital marketing is expected to uncover the tourism industry quite tremendously in a near future.

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