<em> Strategies for growth of destinations and place brand management </em> (by Luigi Cantone, Marcello Risitano, Pierpaolo Testa) - ABSTRACT: The strategies of tourist destination growth allow to increase the value of resources embedded in the geographical context. Coherently, the main aim of the paper...

<em>Interactive advertising for digital television: the profile of a technology and communications innovation</em> ABSTRACT: Advertising, the key tool of the communication mix, and Television, the main means for mass communication, are the major players of a media-morphosis driven by digitalization....

<em>Place marketing network evolution and investment attraction</em> (by Gaetano Aiello, Raffaele Donvito) - ABSTRACT: This paper is based on a relationship marketing perspective and points out the evolutional nature of place marketing networks. According to this framework place marketing is defined as...

<em>Direct communication through self scanner</em> (by Beatrice Luceri) - ABSTRACT: The paper explain the causal research results carried out to check in store communication efficacy, during the shopping trip and as regards assortment. Self scanner is the communication medium employed. Cognitive aims...

This paper reviews the literature on impulse purchasing and various definitions and explanations of the phenomena are examined. On the background of economic recession, some hypotheses of changes in impulse purchasing were developed. These hypotheses were tested by developing and administering a...

During the last decade a lot of attention has been paid to instruments of relationship marketing (MR) aimed at retaining and developing customers. Among these, retail loyalty cards have received considerable attention. A wide body of research has focused on the effects of MR on customer...