tourism marketing
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Critically examine the ways in which tourism marketing strategies and activities are responding to progress in information technology. The objective of this essay is to examine the subject of tourism marketing, with the main focus on how tourism marketing strategies and activities are responding to progress in information technology. Firstly, there is a brief outline of the key concepts in both tourism and marketing, followed by an introduction of IT and how it has been applied in the past. The essay then develops further with a more detailed examination of IT as it is presently, and its affect on tourism marketing. Finally, there is a conclusion, with a summary of the main points illustrated. "Tourism involves the movement, accommodation, entertainment and general servicing of clients from one geographical location, to another. These activities must be combined differently, integrated and 'packaged' to suit complex and rapidly changing consumer requirements." (Poon, 1993). Governments encourage...


