In order to influence the decision making process in tourism, and to keep account with the “tough” competition environment in the current economy, destinations find themselves “fighting” more and more for the attainment of an image as favourable as possible in the mind of the tourist. It...

As the highly standardized mass tourism demonstrated its incapacity to satisfy the increasingly complex needs of tourists, the necessity to develop a new approach for the production, selling and promotion of tourism products became obvious. In the current economic environment, the...

From the perspective of the tourist, sensory marketing strategies may result in an experience improvement which leads, in time, to acquiring a positive destination image, and, from the perspective of the destination, to furthering its harmonious development. Even though it appears that sensory...

Although the Romanian balneotherapy tourism potential is exceptional, its effects do not match the level of the de facto natural resources, hence Romania’s unjustified distance from the main international, European competitors, with a balneotherapy tourism tradition. The all-levels causes...

The multitude of factors interfering in the process of image formation and the way in which they act in a unique combination, similar to a genetic code for a consumer, influences the image study of a tourism destination in the direction of becoming a complex process. In the marketing activity of...

The delimitation of perceptions regarding balneotherapy destinations is a defining process for shaping their positioning in consumers’ minds. Therefore, creating how balneotherapy tourism products specific activities are perceived by consumers and the relationship that they have reported to...

The development of a destination sensory brand represents a complex process, given the multitude of product components, and, by integrating their specific sensory dimensions in their brand platform, can transform the interaction tourist – destination into a memorable experience. In this sense,...

The multitude of tourism products, “constructed” with a basis containing the resources of a tourism destination, on the one hand, and from the anticipation of the tourists’ needs and desires, on the other hand, is “hosted” in a complex space, which transcends the spatial and temporal...

Destinations can be considered a predominantly experiential tourism product in the context of sensory marketing, which would be the best instrument for creating, communicating and delivering the experiential values of the tourism product, and for developing the sensory brand of a destination....

In order to satisfy, maintain and fidelize the consumers, considering the multitude of users on the tourism market, it is necessary to implement a relational marketing paradigm, thus offering products that permanently meet the needs and dynamic wishes of tourists, and so, sustaining a certain...