Hotels' marketing mix responses at insecurity-stricken destinations: a study in the US–Mexico border

Marketing Mix Elements - A Case Study on Steel Industry Export

S teel industries play a key role in the national economy and welfare of the society in many steel manufacturer countries. It is found that manufacturing and consuming of steel products would be a key indicator to measure and evaluate economic and industrial performance of a country. Nowadays, countries with the large natural oil and gas resources (e.g. Iran) attempt to select an alt...

Web Marketing Tourism Destinations

Abstracl Destinations emerge as umbrella brands that need to be promoted as one entity for each target market they try to attract in the competitively fierce world of travel and tourism. A Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) plays a crucial role in the promotion and management of a tourism destination, mainly through an effective use of its Destination Marketing System as a marketing tool....

The Accounting and Marketing Interface in Hotels

The Marketing Mix Matrix

In 2005, Chekitan Dev and Don Schultz introduced the customer focused marketing mix (SIVA) in Marketing Management. SIVA was presented as an alternative approach to McCarthy’s classic business orientated marketing mix popularly known as the 4Ps. SIVA and 4Ps are presented here as a complementary mechanisms to shape marketing practice through considering the needs of the customer within the cons...

From Physical Marketing to Web Marketing: The Web-Marketing Mix

Reviews the criticism on the 4P Marketing Mix framework as the basis of traditional and virtual marketing planning. Argues that the customary marketing management approach, based on the popular Marketing Mix 4Ps paradigm, is inadequate in the case of virtual marketing. Identifies two main limitations of the Marketing Mix when applied in online environments namely the role of the Ps in a virtual...