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Influence of Social Media on Corporate Heritage Tourism Brand
2017
Heritage tourism is an established research canon. However, corporate heritage tourism is an emerging research stream that integrates the heritage tourism canon and corporate brand attributes. This study, utilising a conceptual approach and proposing a conceptual model, explicates the role of social media (marketer and consumer-generated media) in fostering a sense of community among the corporate heritage tourism brand adherents and visit intention among members of the community. In addition, this study incorporates social identity theory to dilate group dynamics and to foster strong feelings and sense of identity among its community. peerReviewed
Strengthening Relational Ties and Building Loyalty Through Relational Innovation and Technology: Evidence from Spanish Hotel Guests
2019
Smart tourism relies on the ability to collect enormous amounts of data and intelligently store, process, combine, analyse and use big data to inform business innovation, operations and services. Companies are becoming aware of the potential of analytics and big data and the need to invest in technology to remain competitive. Most of the research on big data, technology and innovation in tourism focuses on the firm’s perspective, paying scanty attention to customers’ perceptions. The present chapter aims to analyse the impact of hotel relational innovation and technology on brand equity and hotel-guest relational ties and customer loyalty. This objective has been pursued in quantitative res…
Exploring relationships between customer-based brand equity and its drivers and consequences in the hotel context. An impact-asymmetry assessment
2016
The development of customer-based brand equity plays a critical role in tourism. This paper attempts to study which variables contribute to brand equity creation and to examine whether brand loyalty can be considered as a consequence of brand equity in the hotel context. In addition, it seeks to provide a more detailed insights into possible asymmetric effects among customer-based brand equity and its drivers and consequences. Four constructs are found to influence significantly brand equity: two perceptual (image and perceived quality) and two relational variables (trust and affective commitment). Additionally, both behavioural and attitudinal components of loyalty are confirmed as brand e…
Cosmetics Brand Equity Formation in Awareness of Latvian Consumer
2021
Creation of strong brand and increment of brand’s equity in the market is main goal of business. Usage of brand equity concept allows brand owners to sell branded products at higher price, gain greater market share, better promote products in the market, penetrate in market more easily, acquire more loyal consumers, improve effectiveness of marketing communications and enlarge product lines more successfully. Therefore for last 20 years brand’s equity conception, that consists from financial and consumer perceived brand’s equity, has become increasingly actual. It is also important task for brands in Latvian cosmetics market, because market itself is strongly saturated, highly competitive, …
Product Placement in Video Games as a Marketing Strategy: An Attempt to Analysis in Disney Company
2011
What is the best marketing strategy in video games? The literature is not unanimous in upholding the best strategy. Researchers investigating advertising effectiveness disagree on the value of product placement in video games and the methods firms should use with product placement strategies. The state of the question now must figure out the dichotomy between two perspectives: to identify the differences in the effectiveness of product placement in video games when using “traditional placement approaches” compared to the “branded entertainment approach”. The “traditional approach” to product placement in video games involves the product appearing as a visual object that is passive, used by …
Linking employer branding orientation and firm performance: Testing a dual mediation route of recruitment efficiency and positive affective climate
2019
Faced with competitive labor markets, firms increasingly use employer branding to build a qualified workforce and engage their employees. However, our understanding of the impact of employer branding orientation on firm performance and the theoretical firm‐level mechanisms underlying this potential impact is very limited. To address this gap, we integrate brand marketing theory with human resource management (HRM) research to develop a model explicating how employer branding orientation is linked to firm performance through a dual route by enhancing both recruitment efficiency (i.e., external route: applicants) and positive affective climate (i.e., internal route: incumbent employees). The …
Social media communications and festival brand equity: Millennials vs Centennials
2019
Abstract The proliferation of live music festivals in Spain has involved for festival managers the need to differentiate their events, creating brand equity through marketing communications, especially in social media. Given the variability in the ages of festival attendees, the present paper aims at analyzing the moderating role of the generational cohort in the influence of social media communications on brand equity creation and its correlates. A personal survey has been conducted for a sample of 622 attendees of the main live music festival in Spain. Respondents have been asked about their perceptions of festival social media communications, the core variables of brand equity, overall b…
BRAND RELATIONSHIP: PERSPECTIVES ANALYZES AND TRANSCENDING IN MANAGEMENT
2020
RESUMEN El presente artículo de revisión, describe y analiza el estado de la investigación concerniente al Relacionamiento de Marca (Brand Relationship) en el mundo, a partir de la exploración de artículos en inglés publicados en revistas que están catalogadas en ABI Inform (Proquest), Web of Science (WoS) y Scopus (Elsevier) en el periodo comprendido entre 2000 y 2020. Se construyó una base de datos de aproximadamente 143 artículos con el año en que fue publicado el documento, el autor, el nombre de la revista, el país y el método empleado en el estudio. Se puede observar luego de la revisión que en los últimos años ha tomado fuerza el tema y existe una proliferación de artículos relaciona…
El impacto de la comunicación integrada de marketing en la creación del valor de marca : un enfoque cross-cultural en el entorno hotelero
2013
En la presente tesis doctoral se examina el impacto de la Comunicación Integrada de Marketing (CIM) sobre la creación del valor de marca en los hoteles de categoría superior, desde un enfoque perceptual y relacional. Y se aborda el análisis de la CIM bajo un enfoque que la reconoce como una nueva práctica de gestión de carácter estratégico, que es potenciada en gran medida por los avances en las Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación (TIC). Además, se analiza el efecto de la cultura nacional sobre los constructos implicados y sus posibles relaciones. El contexto en el que se desarrolla el estudio es la industria hotelera, un entorno particularmente complejo y dinámico, puesto que incorpo…
Structural Equation Modeling in Research on Brand Capital in Higher Education
2016
This research is done in order to examine the role of the brand capital in higher education. For this purpose, we analyze the main contributions of the literature related to the study of the brand capital and its application in the educational sector, identifying which variables determine the brand capital in the higher education sector. Once we establish the susceptible brand capital in the higher education sector, an empirical research is done by using a questionnaire developed in Spanish language with a Likert scale of grade 5 in which 1 point means "strongly disagree" and 5 mean "strongly agree", being based on the measurement scales…