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Tourism Destination Marketing

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Introduction

The Bay of islands is one of the most beautiful parts of New Zealand and has 144 islands. It can also claim to be the birth place of New Zealand. The Bay Island with its warm climate and water based activities is a popular destination for New Zealand holiday makers and international tourist. The bay has many interesting historic towns including Pahia, Russell, Waitangi and Kari Keri. There is a broad range of accommodation in the bay of island, as well as attractions and activities, place to eat, and entrainment of all age.

Tourists are more dependable on website to get the information and overview of destination. Therefore one of the website of bay of island is www.tourism.net.nz, which gives complete …show more content…

This is useful for the tourist to assess the Bay of Islands but this says little to the tourist about the services and product offered.
The website is a powerful marketing tool for Bay of Islands. Internet marketing has not completely revolutionised the concept of Marketing, but has incorporated it and expanded the opportunities available to marketers. Internet Marketing still uses the traditional concepts of the marketing mix (4 P 's), but the logic of them has changed. Promotion with traditional marketing businesses used a one to many process, by using mass media to transmit their advertisement to their customers. This involved no interaction with the customer. Internet marketing changes this by using a many to many communication process, enabling customers to interact with the medium, with each other and also provide content to the medium. Thus, marketers must reconstruct advertising models for the interactive, many to many medium underlying the web. This is perhaps one of the major changes from the traditional methods of marketing.

One of the most obvious advantages that Internet marketing provides is the removal of barriers in regards to location. Businesses can now reach a much wider audience; customers that were considered unreachable can now be targeted. Also businesses need not operate from a physical location (shop front) any more, they are able to provide all the information that a customer needs on their web site e.g. using catalogues,

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