Destination Marketing and Management

Lecturer: Mei-Tsun Chen (陳美存)

Email: newsmei@mail.ntou.edu.tw 

Phone: 02-24622192#3506

Webpage: dotm.ntou.edu.tw/p/405-1067-62654,c9808.php?Lang=zh-tw 

Course ID:  B760336U

Credits: 2

Course Prerequisites: None

Course Description and Goals:

This course focuses on how destination marketing is planned, implemented and evaluated as well as the management and operations of destination marketing and management organizations, how they conduct business, and the major opportunities, challenges and issues they face to compete for the global leisure and business travel markets.

Schedule Type:  Speech, discussion, problem solve 

Course Schedule (subject to change):

Week 1: Introduction 

Week 2: The concepts of destination management and marketing concepts and roles 

Week 3: Destination planning 

Week 4: Destination marketing planning 

Week 5: Destination management research 

Week 6: Destination product development 

Week 7: Destination partnerships and team-building 

Week 8: Destination community and tourism stakeholder relations 

Week 9: Report 

Week 10: Destination branding 

Week 11: Destination integrated marketing communications 

Week 12: Destination information and communication technologies (ICTs) 

Week 13: Consumer behaviour, segmentation and market trends 

Week 14: Domestic pleasure and leisure travel markets 

Week 15: International pleasure and leisure travel markets 

Week 16: Business travel and business event markets 

Week 17: The future of destination management and marketing 

Week 18: Report