Services Marketing in the Hospitality Economy: An exploratory study Fotis C. Kitsios Technical University of Crete‚ Dept. of Production Engineering and Management‚ Chania‚ Greece Paper prepared for presentation at the 98 th EAAE Seminar ‘Marketing Dynamics within the Global Trading System: New Perspective s’‚ Chania‚ Crete‚ Greece as in: 29 June – 2 July‚ 2006 Copyright 2006 by [Fotis C. Kitsios]. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non - com mercial
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Welcome to Service Management Chapter 01 Role of Services in an Economy James Fitzsimmons Seay Professor of Business Emeritus University of Texas at Austin McGraw-Hill/Irwin Service Management: Operations‚ Strategy‚ and Information Technology‚ 6e Copyright © 2008 by The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All Rights Reserved. Learning Objectives Identify traits that all services have in common. Discuss the central role of services in an economy. Identify and differentiate the five stages of economic
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almost all aspects of services operation have compelled the management of every service industry to place emphasis on the efficient and effective method of presenting its service. The need for marketing in service industry cannot be overemphasized‚ the degree of marketing activities in a company depends on the size of the market. Traditionally‚ executives in service industries have not been market driven. They have lagged behind sellers of products in accepting the marketing concept and have generally
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1.0 OVERVIEW OF THE SERVICE INDUSTRY We have always had service industries‚ and indeed there are numerous biblical references to services as diverse as inn keeping‚ money lending and market trading. Over time‚ the service sector has grown in volume and in the importance attributed to it. According to Baker J.M et al‚ The Marketing Book 5th Ed‚ (2003)‚ early economists saw services as being totally unproductive‚ adding nothing of value to an economy. He quotes Adam Smith as having included
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Services Marketing A service is the action of doing something for someone or something. It is largely intangible (i.e. not material). A product is tangible (i.e. material) since you can touch it and own it. A service tends to be an experience that is consumed at the point where it is purchased‚ and cannot be owned since is quickly perishes. A person could go to a café one day and have excellent service‚ and then return the next day and have a poor experience. So often marketers talk about the nature
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Emergence of the service economy In this fast changing world‚ service industries have already overtaken goods industries in the wealth creation process at least in the developed countries. Manufacturing industries grew because they produced tangible goods which satisfied people’s physiological needs of food‚ shelter and clothing. As the basic needs was fulfilled there was demand for improved satisfaction‚ and this led to a proliferation of variations of the same product and a number of companies
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Services Marketing Chapter 1:! New Perspectives On! !Marketing in the! ! !Service Economy! Slide © 2010 by Lovelock & Wirtz Services Marketing 7/e Chapter 1 – Page 1 Overview of Chapter 1! Services Marketing Why Study Services?! What are Services?! Marketing Challenges Posed by Services! Extended Marketing Mix Required for Services! Integration of Marketing with Other Management Functions! Developing Effective Service Marketing Strategies! Slide © 2010 by Lovelock
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Introduction Lusch et al. (2007) describe as marketing emerged in the beginning of the 20th century‚ it embraced the goods-dominant (G-D) logic. The concept of the Four Ps of marketing mix – product‚ price‚ place and promotion became treated as the basic model at that time. (Grönroos‚ 1989) Today‚ this paradigm is beginning to lose its position. Service marketing is one leading new approach to marketing. Four main characteristics of services defined by Kotler et al. (2009) are intangible‚ perishable
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Services marketing-103038 Part A 1. Services marketing is marketing based on relationship and value. It may be used to market a service or a product. Marketing a service-base business is different from marketing a goods-base business. There are several major differences‚ including: 1. The buyer purchases are intangible 2. The service may be based on the reputation of a single person 3. It’s more difficult to compare the quality of similar services 4. The buyer cannot return the
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Introduction to Services Marketing In general‚ goods can be defined as objects‚ devices‚ or things‚ whereas products refer to both goods and services. A service is any act or performance that one party can offer to another that is essentially intangible and does not result in the ownership of anything. Its production may or may not be tied to a physical product. The distinction between goods and services is not perfectly clear. Service is the sum of all encounters between a customer and a service provider
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