Relational Marketing – the Prerequisite to Implement Tourist Companies’ Marketing Strategies

Maria Carmen Iordache and Denisa Elena Parpandel
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Maria Carmen Iordache: „Constantin Brancoveanu” University, Pitesti

Theoretical and Applied Economics, 2009, vol. 08(537), issue 08(537), 57-66

Abstract: By means of enterprisers’ complex efforts to be oriented towards and take permanent steps to customers’ benefits, relational marketing actually and essentially argues rendering customers loyal by the persuasive qualities of the products supplied, the conditions they are offered in, and a more favourable quality-price ratio than the competitors’. Within relational marketing, marketing managers must set up and implement efficient strategies and programmes in order to attract and keep their customers. In case of losing their customers, it is necessary they explore the causes and try to emotionally or rationally regain them, especially if customers’ strategic value is high to suppliers. The balance between attracting new customers and keeping the current ones has a dynamic feature proved by the change in priorities of the two main concerns during enterprisers’ and products’ progress on the market. The business environment where enterprisers in the Romanian tourism develop their activities is complex and continuously changing. This imposes an increase in the concerns of tourism managers that should take account of the motivations and demands of current and potential tourists, which would be the best way to attract customers and make them loyal.

Keywords: relational marketing; attracting; keeping; customer value; strategy. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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