4 P's Of Tourism
Promotion
It is related to informing,educating,persuading,reminding the customers about the benefit an organization offers.It includes all the activities undertaken to communicate,highlight the qualities of the product.Traditional promotional mix has been broken down into four main elements;advertisement,sale promotion,public relation and personal selling.In tourism promotion marketing mix includes personal and customer also.
Product
Typically the marketing mix being with product offering.A product is any offering that can satisfy customer's needs and wants.It is produced.Producer should add "value".Many tourism resources are free of cost, such as natural beauties,friendship of local people,local festivals.Tourism product is the combination of 4 A.Every tourism product should have "soul and body".Soul is intangible element and body is the tangible part.The example of intangible element are service,pleasure,satisfaction,trust etc.and tangible are the natural beauties,hotel, room,transport a service staff,etc.Intangible service,trust is created over the tangible part.
Price
Price is the amount of money that customer pay for the product.It is the exchange cost or value.Price is the most flexible components of the marketing mix.Marketers can rise or low price more frequently than they can change any other marketing mix.This is the most important competitive weapon on organization has,price mix decision includes strategies and tactical decision about the average level of price to be charged,discount structure,term of payment and the extent to which price discrimination between different groups of customer.Price of tourism product is the total of monetary and non-monetary elements,as many tourism products are available at free of cost such as natural beauty,social hospitality.Tourism price includes $value and time value.
Place
Distribution strategies are concerned with marketing product available when and where customer want them.It includes various activities undertaken to make the product accessible and available to target customers.Physical distribution consist of all business concerned with transporting products so that they arrive in usable condition at designation place when needed.But in tourism as the product is immovable channel refers to the transport of customers from the point of sale(P O S)to the point of service delivery (P O S D).It includes transport system and channel members.It is refer ed as accessibility.