TOUR19020 Destination Marketing
Assessment 2: Bali, Indonesia
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Executive Summary
Bali is a tourist region situated within Indonesia. This report aims to provide a marketing plan for the next two years which will help Bali to overcome its current constraints and challenges and to exploit its opportunities. It is suggested that Bali Tourism moves away from its traditional positioning of targeting younger people looking for a cheap holiday. By maximising the opportunities created by the constraints of not enough capacity for air flights for tourists, a new cruise ship industry can be created which will ultimately attract travellers with a higher spending potential, such as families, older people and
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There is the opportunity to create cruise ship tours from Australia, New Zealand and other pacific nations. People can fly into these ports if they wish to visit from other countries. The Bali Tourist Board can work with strategic partners from other nations to offer incentives to have cruise ships travel to already established ports of Bali. Cruise ships to Bali can be positioned as the best alternative to plane trips and can be an extra way to get people to take up a relaxing holiday to the island. This can help to build a trip to Bali to be an even better experience for people as they can spend a relaxing time on the water to get to the island. During this time, tour guides and operators can promote and sell their activities and restaurants so that people have places in mind to goo once they are on the island.
Overcoming competitive challenges
Currently, the governments in the three competitive destinations (Phuket, Queensland Sanya) have doubled their marketing budgets for the next two years whilst the Bali Tourism board has had to leave their budget as it is. This means that Bali is faced with a challenge; the challenge to compete strongly against other places with more ability to spend. This does not have to be seen as a weakness but can also be viewed as a unique opportunity. While less emphasis can be placed on traditional media, more effort can be placed onto free or cheaper mediums, such as social media. This
Tourism has several impacts on many different aspects of Bali’s society. Tourism has impacted on the already existing, social, economic, cultural and environmental processes of the island. For example, as a result of tourism the pace of urbanisation has rapid increased and tourism has sped up the process of economic development.
In this section I will explain the different development in the tourism industry since the 1960’s and what the effect it has on the travel industry.
The 1960 's marked the beginning of cruise tourism ( Brida, et.al, 2013). However, it wasn 't until the 70 's and 80 's that the cruise industry began to experience moderate growth. All of this changed however in 90 's when cruise tourism took root in Europe, Asia and Oceania and 3.8 million people worldwide embarked on ocean adventures ( Brida, et.al, 2013). Although the industry has experienced continual growth since the 90 's, and cruises are consistently ranked as one of the top preferred vacation type by holiday goers, the cruise tourism industry is still relatively small in relation to other forms of international tourism (Brida, et.al, 2013).
The availability of budget, experts, employee’s facilities from the ministry of tourism guarantee operational feasibility for this project. According to (Factors affecting marketing in travel and tourism). “In many cases government-run tourism boards are the sole source of funding for a travel and tourism marketing campaign”. Moreover, the government support for the
The Social media has proved to be a boon that spread across the countries in previous years like a wildfire. The Social media has highly transformed the industry of travel and tourism. Social media like Facebook offers expeditious ways of reaching millions of people across different countries with distinct cultures. The Social media helps people to share great and not so great experiences, to become instant critiques. Tourism companies and tourists have created their networks where they can share views about hotels, restaurants, tourist spots, holiday packages as well as posting their pictures, videos and so on. Social media also acts as a source of advertisement and marketing. The Primary as well as Secondary Research has been followed
San Juan Islands, an archipelago part of the US’ state of Washington, have been well-known since the early 20th century for its scenic nature and abundant wild life. Their landscapes have transformed a rural county into a popular tourist destination and have continuously been invented and commodified for tourism. In 2014, tourist expenditure reached almost US$200mn, generating jobs and services in the whole county. Previously to the establishment of the current DMO in 1999, San Juan Islands Visitor Bureau (SJIVB), there were a scarcity of resources devoted to tourism and a passive approach in promoting the Islands. Under the management of the DMO, the county has risen to become America’s favourite place for retirement. The purpose of this report is to evaluate the 2016 destination marketing and budget plan of San Juan Islands, drawing on Middleton et al. (2009)’s marketing planning process. This report will also give recommendations regarding the marketing research and sustainable tourism management.
This marketing plan will aim to increase market share by five percent over the next year by targeting first-time visitors to Australia/Queensland in advertisement and promotional materials through a business-to-business campaign, focusing on travel agents and other third-party international booking agents. Targeting these international sellers through the use of more recently established information and communications technologies will produce a cost savings for the company and has been demonstrated as
As the economy develops, the individualized and diversified demand of tourists is growing. Tourism consumers in different regions, their needs and desires are vastly different, and also change with the change of environmental factors. Travel agencies highlight the characteristics of market positioning, emphasizing the differences, and establish
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The first question, the reason for the availability of lands for tourism, can be explained by a number of factors. For example, the simplest answer is that certain lands were designated as worth preservation or other government sanctioned protection and as such, those lands were made available to anyone who cared to travel and see them. However, there is much more to the story that simple land protection legislation.
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The study in this report will confirm that the cruise sector is an important part of the tourism industry in New Zealand. The sector creates significant inflows of foreign expenditure which impacts positively on the New Zealand economy.
The Travel and Tourism industry is still one of the largest single businesses in world commerce and its importance is widely recognized. The tourism industry is now one of the largest sectors earning foreign exchange. In the face of many benefits, many countries have started assigning due weight age to the tourism industry in their national development agenda. Tourism is an industry that operates on a massively broad scale: it embraces activities ranging from the smallest sea-side hotel; to air-lines, multi-national hotel chains and major international tour operators. Originally, non-traditional industries such as tourism emerged as a solution to strike a balance between ecology and industry
The growth of social networking currently dominating the world. By promoting their resorts and put some advertisements (which most of them are free) can be a good opportunity for this resort. This can increase the number of travelers to choose the resort as a destination, while having minimal advertisement cost. Thus, published advertisements like TV and billboard advertisements, newspapers and even magazines advertisements can be minimized since they are more costly.
Not too long ago, the Singapore government cooperated with Indonesia to develop cruise ship tourism as Singapore is enjoying a cruise tourism boom (The Jakarta Post, 2011). This collaboration boosts economic bilateral ties and tourism. Previously, the Singapore government also backed entrepreneur Ong Beng Seng’s bid to