ISSN Electrónico: 2500-9338
Volumen 23-N°1
Año 2023
Págs. 131 – 144
IDENTITY, CULTURE AND HERITAGE AS TOURISM TOOLS IN
THEIR DIGITAL MARKETING STRATEGIES
Jinha Mauren
Botina Mora **
ORCID link: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5491-7602
Juan Carlos
Gallego López ***
ORCID link: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7960-7486
Orlando
Estupiñan Revelo ****
ORCID link: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8136-4997
Ernesto
Javier Bastidas Mera *****
ORCID link: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-1865
Recepción
Date: December 20, 2022
Recepción
Date: March 25,
2023
Abstract:
Being the tourist activity
transversal to the different socio-economic sectors of the communities that
frame the integration of elements such as cultural identity, natural and
architectural heritage considered as a fundamental part of the tourist
inventory of any society, it is imperative to investigate the relationship that
exists between them to formulate effective digital marketing strategies that
promote not only the sale of services and/or tourist packages, but also allow
the management carried out in the tourist activity to focus on highlighting and
transferring the cultural idiosyncrasy and the preservation of heritage as a
promoter axis of civilization and the evolution towards sustainable and
sustainable tourism.It is in the execution of the tourist activity where the
deep relationship that exists between these elements is evidenced and
manifested, precisely at the moment of truth after the encounter between the
inhabitants of a region and/or community and the tourists and visitors who
arrive with realities multidiverse cultures. This interaction and knowledge of
new cultures can directly impact and influence the dynamics of the cultures of
the receiving communities as well as the visitors within the context of the
tourist activity. The symbiotic relationship between these elements and tourism
is a source of knowledge and information for the design of digital marketing
strategies that can be optimally used as tools for management and assertive
communication that promote tourism with corporate social responsibility.
Keywords: Heritage, identity, culture,
Tourism, Digital Marketing
*
Magister en Administración de Organizaciones, UNAD. Especialista en
Administración educativa, Universidad de Nariño. Administradora de empresas,
Universidad de Nariño. Pasto, Nariño, Colombia. E-mail: jmbotina@unicesmag.edu.co.
**
Magister en Gestión Pública del Turismo, Sostenibilidad y Competitividad, Universidad
Internacional de Andalucía sede IberoAmericana Santa María la Rábida, Huelva
España. Especialista en Conservación del Patrimonio Colombiano, Universidad La
gran Colombia. Arquitecto, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Pasto, Nariño,
Colombia. E-mail: jcgallego@unicesmag.edu.co.
*** Administrador de Empresas, Profesional en
Comercio Internacional, Especialista en Gerencia de Proyectos, Especialista en
Administración Educativa, Magíster en Mercadeo, Universidad de Manizales,
Docente Investigador Tiempo Completo, Facultad de Ciencias Administrativas y
Contables, programa de Administración de empresas, Universidad. CESMAG,
Integrante de grupo de Investigación San Francisco de Asís. Colombia. Contacto: moestupinan@unicesmag.edu.co.
**** Magister en Mercadeo, Universidad Jorge
Tadeo Lozano; Especialista en alta gerencia, Universidad Mariana; Administrador
Financiero, Universidad Mariana; Tecnólogo en Administración Financiera, Centro
de Estudios Superiores María Goretti, Docente Investigador Tiempo Completo,
Facultad de Ciencias Administrativas y Contables, Universidad CESMAG,
Integrante de grupo de Investigación San Francisco de Asís, Correo: jebastidas@unicesmag.edu.co.
LA IDENTIDAD, LA CULTURA Y EL PATRIMONIO COMO
HERRAMIENTAS DEL TURISMO EN SUS ESTRATEGIAS DE MARKETING DIGITAL
Al
ser la actividad turística transversal a los diferentes sectores
socio-económicos de las comunidades que enmarcan la integración de elementos
como la identidad cultural, el patrimonio natural y arquitectónico considerados
como parte fundamental del inventario turístico de cualquier sociedad, se hace imperante indagar en la relación que
existe entre ellos para formular las estrategias de marketing digital efectivas
que promuevan no solo la venta de servicios y/o paquetes turísticos, sino que
además, permita que la gestión que se realiza en la actividad turística se
enfoque en resaltar y transferir la idiosincrasia cultural y la preservación
del patrimonio como un eje promotor de la civilización y la evolución hacia un
turismo sustentable y sostenible. Es en la ejecución de la actividad turística
donde se evidencia y manifiesta la relación profunda que existente entre estos
elementos, justamente en el momento de verdad tras el encuentro entre los
habitantes de una región y/o comunidad y los turistas y visitantes que llegan
con realidades culturales multidiversas. Esta interacción y conocimiento de
nuevas culturas puede repercutir e influir directamente en la dinámica de las culturas
de las comunidades receptoras como de las visitantes dentro del contexto de la
actividad turística. La relación simbiótica ejercida entre estos elementos y el
turismo es fuente de conocimiento e información para el diseño de estrategias
de marketing digital que pueden ser óptimamente utilizadas como herramientas
para la gestión y comunicación asertiva que promuevan un turismo con
responsabilidad social empresarial.
Palabras clave:
Patrimonio, identidad, cultura, Turismo, Marketing Digital
IDENTIDADE, CULTURA E PATRIMÓNIO COMO FERRAMENTAS TURÍSTICAS NAS
ESTRATÉGIAS DE MARKETING DIGITAL
Resumo:
Sendo
a atividade turística transversal aos diferentes sectores socioeconómicos das
comunidades que enquadram a integração de elementos como a identidade cultural,
o património natural e arquitetónico considerados como parte fundamental do
inventário turístico de qualquer sociedade, é imperativo investigar a relação
que existe entre eles para formular estratégias eficazes de marketing digital
que promovam não só a venda de serviços e/ou pacotes turísticos, mas que também
permitam que a gestão que é realizada na gestão do turismo, é imperativo investigar a relação que existe
entre eles para formular estratégias eficazes de marketing digital que promovam
não só a venda de serviços e/ou pacotes turísticos, mas também permitam que a
gestão da atividade turística se centre na valorização e transmissão das
idiossincrasias culturais e na preservação do património como eixo promotor da
civilização e da evolução para um turismo sustentável e duradouro. É na
execução das actividades turísticas que a relação profunda entre estes
elementos se torna evidente e se manifesta,
precisamente no momento da verdade após o encontro entre os habitantes de uma
região e/ou comunidade e os turistas e visitantes que chegam com realidades
culturais multidiversas. Esta interação e conhecimento de novas culturas pode
ter um impacto direto e influenciar a dinâmica das culturas das comunidades de
acolhimento e de visita no contexto da atividade turística. A relação
simbiótica entre estes elementos e o turismo é uma fonte de conhecimento e
informação para a conceção de estratégias de marketing digital que podem ser
utilizadas de forma optimizada como ferramentas de gestão e comunicação
assertiva que promovam o turismo com responsabilidade social corporativa.
Palavras-chave: Património, identidade,
cultura, Turismo, Marketing Digital
1. INTRODUCTION:
It is particularly clear that the
tourist attractions offered by the operators give rise to the types of tourism,
many of them have the beach as an inventory, others, great mountains, beautiful
lagoons and imposing volcanoes that allow designing both the tourist
experiences and the services that go to lend, which would be aligned to
ecotourism, recreational, adventure, and cultural tourism, among other types.
Undoubtedly, getting to know these wonderful attractions also inevitably means
getting involved with the type of intercultural and heritage tourism in the
regions you visit. Each tourist destination has a cultural suggestion that
integrates elements such as its idiosyncrasies, its values, principles, beliefs
and traditions that define not only its context, but also its identity. It is
for this reason that it is essential to know the integration and the two-way
relationship that exists between them in order to truly appreciate their
historical and cultural heritage to the full, since one leads to the other. So,
to complement the tourist offer and design marketing strategies, it is
necessary to study the characteristics and attributes that make up the cultural
and ancestral wealth of the communities that revolve around the tourist
inventory that is to be offered and towards which tourists converge. For
example, gastronomy constitutes an integrating element within the tourist
offer.
Cultural tourism emerges as a
consequence of the very development of the tourism market, its need for
diversification and the growing importance of the new urban middle class, with
a high level of studies, interested in knowing and experiencing something
special, different from what is offered massive tourism, with cultural,
symbolic, spiritual or historical content (Bonet, 2022).The relationship of
these elements that are integrated into the execution of the tourist activity
usually generates a quite reciprocal and intimate link at the same time,
although on other occasions it can become tense and unpredictable due to the
different interests and influence exerted between heritage and tourism or vice
versa. Over the years, the perspective has changed that visitors and tourists
"represented a constant threat to the integrity of heritage assets,
whether tangible or intangible" (Palavecino and Chaparro, 2012, p. 1),
causing damage to the environment and, on the other hand, making room for
acculturation. This change has been possible thanks to the understanding that
these two concepts maintain a close relationship and that they cannot be separated
from the tourism context. From there, the operators have designed marketing
strategies that benefit both tourism and heritage in a positive way. Likewise,
today it is intended that cultural tourism generate economic resources that
allow not only the conservation of the environment, but also of the heritage
for a sustainable development of the communities and their traditions.
On the other hand, it is desired
that culture become the means to educate the community who interpret and
execute a sustainability policy that promotes responsible tourism with its
heritage and with the preservation of its identity as a good donated to
generations to come. perpetuity. This is how heritage and tourism have become strategic allies that
generate income for the national and regional economy when properly managed,
becoming a factor of self-development.
The Sustainable Tourism Charter of Spain mentions that
it is important to recognize that tourism is an ambivalent activity, since it
can bring great benefits in the socio-economic and cultural sphere, while at
the same time contributing to environmental degradation and the loss of local
identity. Therefore, it must be approached from a global perspective
(Entornoturistico, 2022). In relatively few years, tourism has become the
emerging phenomenon that permeates the political, economic, social, cultural
and environmental dimensions of different nations. This socio-economic activity
brings together links or clusters linked to the tourist offer that envision
various opportunities and great possibilities in a potentially discovered
market as long as the operators identify the interaction between the desires
and expectations of tourists and are also aware of the aspirations and wishes
of the host communities, since the practice of tourism inevitably generates in
the host community different types of reaction to positive and negative impacts
inherited by the host society.
Therefore, it is essential that a tourism venture have
as a business policy respect for cultural, social, environmental and heritage
characteristics that identify a community and tourist destination to design
their marketing strategies based on sustainability criteria, that is, it must
be bearable. ecologically in the long term, economically viable and equitable
from an ethical and social perspective for local communities (Palavecino and
Chaparro, 2012). In addition, it must pursue sustainable development as its objective, that is, it must seek a global management
of resources, in order to ensure their durability, allowing the conservation of
natural and cultural capital, including protected areas. Since tourism is a
powerful development instrument, it can and should actively participate in the
sustainable development strategy. Good tourism management requires guaranteeing
the sustainability of the resources on which it depends (Entornoturistico, 2022).The concepts of heritage, territory, identity, culture and
marketing seem to be independently detached from the tourist activity, which is
why they have been investigated and studied independently. On some occasions,
two or three of these concepts are usually joined in order to define and
differentiate them from each other, without delving into the relationship and
influence they have on the subject of tourism. On other occasions, the same
State, experts, institutions, advisors and some operators that have to do with
tourism combine them to formulate their awareness strategies with the aim of
transforming it into sustainable tourism, anchoring them all under a universal
definition that promotes the development of the territories without losing
their identity represented in the social and cultural manifestations included
in the tourist offers. The academy has also been dialoguing, researching, and
discussing the way to address, enter, and deal with this relationship within
the concept of territory as a kind of container for a whole, in which these
elements interact systematically within the dynamics. of tourism.
Due to the above, when the concept of territory is
spoken today, the other concepts that make it up are already being articulated,
such as Heritage, culture and identity. However, in various investigations,
many authors, when defining these concepts, involuntarily forget to highlight
the close relationship between them, and end up defining them globally and
separately. Then arises the need to inquire about the relationship between
these elements by formulating the following questions to which this article
intends to answer.
1. Why
are the Municipal and Departmental POTs, when defining territory, only
pigeonholed in the geographical space that limits it?
2. How
is it possible to speak of Heritage, regardless of the vision of society that
conceives it as its own good?
3. Is it
possible that the concept of Heritage be interpreted in the same way as the
territory?
4. When
talking about Tourism Marketing, are you not talking about Territorial
Marketing?
5. What
is the necessary dynamization that these concepts require to be inclusive and
at the same time sustainable in tourism?
3. RESULTS:
This
present paper by showing the most representative connotations of each term in
order to interpret and understand it within the tourism field, since the common
thing is that they occur from the perspective of those who study them. On the
other hand, the theoretical challenges that these terms imply in today's world
will be analyzed, as well as the new generational visions of the concept of
territory. The challenges and opportunities for research in this field are
evident, partly due to the perceptions that the new generations have about this
term, the current reality of the Territory and the evident changes in the evaluation
criteria of today's society. In addition to the above, climate change,
pollution and migration mean that this concept must be permanently reassessed,
reviewed and updated, being studied with a view to being more inclusive. However,
despite the fact that cultural tourism brings different cultures into contact
with each other through tourist trips, there are some dissatisfactions in its
management. (Díaz-Pompa, et al., 2022). For the R.A.E (2022), the territory is
the portion of land surface belonging to a nation, region or province; This
parameterized, neutral and simple definition only takes into account the
geographical space, which is understood to have as its
essential characteristic that it is limited or defined by something or someone.
When comparing this definition with the multiple information that the multiple
media provide daily today; it is possible to conceive an equivocal perception
that the Territory is an empty, virgin and autistic geographical space.On the
other hand, the Municipal Development Plans in Colombia see the territory in a
more holistic way, and in their "missionary purposes" they
comprehensively articulate the following purposes:
• The
increase in human capital.
• The
improvement of physical capital.
• The
conservation of natural capital.
• The
construction of social capital.
• The
strengthening of technological capital.
• The
increase in economic capital.
• The
reduction of poverty.
Within this panorama, every Municipal
Development Plan has the following objectives as base principles of the
territory:
• Social
inclusion and creation of opportunities for all.
•
Determined boost to the productive sector and economic transformation.
•
Strengthening and modernization of government institutions.
•
Optimum management and use of the territory.
•
Strengthening of culture, of the sense of identity and belonging and of social
capital.
Due to the above, when reviewing the
above criteria, it can be understood that a Municipal Development Plan could be
synonymous with a "Territory Development Plan" since, within its
missionary purposes and objectives, the territory is a geographical space that
It has Humans and living beings within it, which must be conserved,
strengthened and promoted.Now, taking the approach given by the two previous references,
it is considered prudent to inquire about what the Ministry of Culture refers
to the concept of Territory, which includes a new term called Heritage.
According to said Ministry, in Law 1185, it defines in its article 1,
(Administrative Department of Public Function, 2008), what integrates the
cultural heritage of the nation is:
The
Nation's cultural heritage is made up of all tangible goods, intangible
manifestations, products and representations of culture that are an expression
of Colombian nationality, such as the Spanish language, the languages and
dialects of indigenous, black communities and Creoles, tradition, ancestral
knowledge, the cultural landscape, customs and habits, as well as material
goods of a movable and immovable nature to which are attributed, among others,
special historical, artistic, scientific, aesthetic or symbolic in areas such
as plastic, architectural, urban, archaeological, linguistic, sound, musical,
audiovisual, film, testimonial, documentary, literary, bibliographic,
museological or anthropological (p.1).
Analyzing this article, it can be
understood and interpreted that the territory and Heritage have an indissoluble
correlation, since one is immersed in the other, and in turn, both share
determining aspects in their definition, such as the limited geographical
space, the living beings that inhabit there (Humans, Flora and Fauna) and the
works that man has developed in space over time. Therefore, Heritage
Interpretation is a management tool available for the conservation of natural
and cultural heritage. (Martín et al., 2016)
TERRITORY = HERITAGE GEOGRAPHICAL SPACE LIVING
BEINGS WORKS OF MAN Fig. 2. Vision of the Territory and Heritage.
Personal photographic archive
In
relation to the subject of tourism, within the motivations that move the
tourist, the curiosity to know the historical-cultural aspects of a place
stands out, in this sense, cultural assets must be incorporated as part of the
tourist offer, thus including them in the heritage tourist. Thus, a direct
relationship between cultural heritage and tourism is proposed, where on the
one hand we have the conservation of the cultural and historical wealth of a
territory and, on the other hand, an activity that values said heritage,
promoting its rescue and conservation. of the different cultural
manifestations, both tangible and intangible, promotes and disseminates it. Cultural and historical
assets thus become ideal tourist attractions to diversify the tourist offer,
expanding tourist routes and circuits (Borrega, 2022).
It is precisely at this point, where digital
marketing becomes a very important communication tool when contributing to the
rescue and conservation of both tangible and intangible heritage of populations,
as well as contributing to the vision of the territory, when, through the
tourist activity, it shows and educates the tourist and visitor about the care
that they must have about the elements that make up the idiosyncrasy and
culture of a community that owns a heritage and tourist inventory and
inheritors of its own territory that must be preserved and initially valued by
its inhabitants (Palavecino and Chaparro, 2012).
Fig. 3 Territorial Sustainability. Own elaboration
Tourism marketing not only contributes to the
recovery of these cultural assets, but also plays a fundamental role in the
cultural revaluation and rescue of the identity of the peoples, since these are
the main responsible for their heritage and tourism therefore contributes with
the generation of optimal conditions for their conservation and preservation
(Borrega, 2022).
However, what happens in the tourist reality is
that by separating these concepts of heritage, culture, identity and territory
what is produced is a loss of historical continuity, a loss of the identity of
the peoples and in some way the relationship of the man with his environment
through the years, through the invention of a past and traditions that never
existed, for fashion or a sign of well-being and lifestyle (Borrega, 2022).
In this order of ideas and taking into account
the imminent relationship that exists between these conceptual elements, a
vision of its own has emerged, much more adjusted to the real dimension of the
territory, which must be sustainable and, therefore, must be concerned with
complying with the five universal objectives of territorial sustainability to
become the dialogue and integral summation of it, these are: social, cultural,
economic, environmental and political sustainability, each one of them is
specified in figure 3.
Analyzing the previous figure, it is
evident that territorial sustainability must necessarily integrate into its
strategies, creation, planning, protection, conservation and maintenance actions
whose purpose is to achieve the alignment of the five objectives. Although each
one of them can work on its own, it also requires the interaction and
contribution of the others for them to be fulfilled, since each one of them is
also conditioning and limiting the others. On the other hand, as can be seen in
figure 3, two recurring and essential terms appear in the sustainability of the
Territory, alluding to Culture and Identity. Larrin and Hurtado (2003) define a
new concept of culture, stating that:
…In the
mid-twentieth century, under the influence of new anthropological and
linguistic trends, a symbolic conception of culture began to be built that
highlights the use of symbols as a distinctive feature of human life: Human
beings create and exchange meaningful expressions (that is, with meaning) not
only through language, but also through objects, materials, works of art and
actions that they give meaning to. In this symbolic perspective, culture would
become the pattern of meanings incorporated into symbolic forms, including
linguistic expressions, actions and significant objects, through which
individuals communicate and share experiences (p. 30).
This concept glimpses the intimate
relationship that arises between Culture and identity, since identity can only
be understood and built in symbolic interaction with culture. Larraín compares
identity as a kind of soul or essence with which one is born, does not refer to
it as a set of internal dispositions that remain fundamentally the same
throughout life, regardless of the social environment where the person is, but
rather Identity requires a construction process in which individuals define
themselves and complement each other thanks to close interaction with other
people, that is, Identity is a symbolic process that the individual builds
throughout his life. (Larrin and Hurtado, 2003). For his part, Borrega (2022),
argues that culture is identity, and, therefore, it is the pride of that
people, which is why it should never be considered as a form of negotiable
material wealth, but as the link of union of a town.
When the concepts of culture and
identity are included in the theme of Tourism from a socially responsible
conception for the rescue, protection, restoration in necessary cases and the
revaluation of these patrimonial assets made up of tourist attractions, a
diversification of the tourist product is obtained. which is usually
successfully promoted in digital marketing. Therefore, tourism must tend to
protect and value the historical-cultural heritage of the peoples so that they
do not degenerate due to their use (Borrega, 2022). Otherwise, if in this
identity construction process, the individual finds himself in a territory with
a high Tourism impact, if this social manifestation called Tourism is not
carried out and planned responsibly, this individual or group of individuals
will unequivocally end. faced with one of three cultural processes:
Acculturation: where the inhabitant
loses her culture and identity by welcoming that of tourists and visitors.
Transculturation: the inhabitant
accepts some features of the tourists and visitors; and in the same way, the
latter adopt some features of the inhabitants of the tourist Territory to which
they access for the tourist activity.
Cultural Apathy: the inhabitant does
not want to have any contact with tourists and visitors, because he perceives
that they are a threat that can cause great damage to his culture and identity,
as is often the case in some indigenous communities.
By affirming that in order to avoid
the evolution of the previous processes and to ensure that the relationship
between tourism and heritage is beneficial for both, the different tourist
activities must be planned taking into account precisely the cultural heritage
and its identity. It is essential to stop thinking only about how tourism
affects heritage, and rather consider this impact to carry out sustained
planning of cultural tourism. In this way, planned tourism must tend not to
come into conflict with culture, not to degrade it, but to generate positive
attitudes in service providers and government entities with the idea of
generating actions that benefit heritage, from its revaluation, its
preservation and conservation, as well as its purely
tourist use (Borrega, 2022).
In this way, tourism operators must
consider in the offer and marketing of their portfolio of products and
services, the integration not only of their inventory of attractions
considering the viability and access to them through the infrastructure, but
also in the dynamics generated by the culture and identity of the territories,
since in the tourist package, in addition to marketing the visit to the tourist
attraction, the capacity of this territory to satisfy the desires and
expectations of visitors is sold through an experiential experience in where
various cultural and historical manifestations between the tourist and the
community can come together, generating in this relationship beneficial or
harmful processes for both parties that make a decision to return to the
tourist site or come to disqualify the experience that the tourist has on the
territory . It may be that the main motivation that moves tourists to select a
destination over others is precisely these attractions, but the idea of
returning and extending their visit will depend on the experience acquired in
contact with the culture and identity of the territory.
It is worth mentioning that when a
territory has a diversity of heritage assets around a tourist destination, its
attraction increases, opening up multiple possibilities to expand its portfolio
of products and services in the tourist offer, for which the assessment made of
the territories with respect to to its autochthonous cultural assets that give
identity to a territory and that are often invisible to operators, downplaying
the importance they deserve, is essential when designing tourism marketing
strategies. Therefore, the promotion implies a work not only of diffusion of
the patrimonial attractiveness but of revaluation of the same in its place of
origin.
However, the mistaken idea still persists that tourism
marketing should only be related and directed exclusively to promoting tourism
products and services.
and achieve high sales of them. It is interesting to know
the concept of marketing defined by
Kotler and Bowen
(2004), who affirm that it covers the entire business, it is the business as a
whole from the point of view of its final result, that is, from the point of
view of the client.
As can be seen, marketing has always been studied and
analyzed solely and exclusively from the point of view of the client, in this
case the tourist, and what about the territory and its context in which the
tourist product or service is inserted?. This is how tour operators carry out market
plans, without realizing that they include the cultural sensitivity of the
territory where the tourist destination is located. In this regard, Kotabe and
Helsen (2001), writing on cultural sensitivity, comment that, over the years,
two fundamental opposing forces have shaped the nature of marketing on the
international stage. These opposing forces have been considered repeatedly by
many authors in terms of “standardization vs. Adaptation” (1960s),
“Globalization vs. Localization (1970s), “global integration vs. local responsiveness”
(1980s), and more recently “Scale vs. Sensitivity” (1990s).
It is important to clarify that the vision of cultural
sensitivity addressed by these authors is limited solely and exclusively to the
way companies in different countries think when they want to promote and sell a
product. In this sense, "Cultural Sensitivity" is limited and is
simply a parameter of understanding how to sell a product in a territory.
It is currently considered important to expand the design
of tourism marketing towards cultural sensitivity, and, what is more, today, in
the second decade of 2020, there is already talk of "Territorial
sustainability versus neutralization and simplicity of the territory",
since there is to transcend the concept of territory as an object itself in the
sale of tourism products.
In Tourism it is normal to find the promotion of
destinations that carry out marketing campaigns with the phrase: "all
inclusive" so, if everything is included in the Hotel, what is left for
the tourist to know about the territory? The answer is obvious and
disappointing, the high consumption of public services, large amounts of waste
and garbage, few sales made outside the hotel that benefit the local
population.
This
evidences the biased and limited conception of marketing that still persists in
international and national markets, which continues to restrict the future of
marketing to its sole purpose, to achieve only the satisfaction of needs as
expressed by Kotler and Bowen (2004), given that As competition becomes more
intense, companies will be forced to focus on satisfying their customers. The future will
be short for companies that do not. For his part, in his famous article
"The marketing revolutions", Robert Keith wrote about this same
future in which it will soon be true that all the activities of a company, from
finance to sales promotion, will have as their goal the satisfaction of
customers. consumer needs and wants. When this stage of development is reached,
the Marketing revolution will be complete.
One of the purposes of this article
is to publicize tourism marketing trends with a broader vision that
revolutionizes and innovates the role of Marketing in light of the new times
and socio-cultural events that have arisen in the 21st century, since tourism
It is a socio-economic activity that involves the heritage, culture and
identity of the communities where the attractions and tourist destinations lie
and therefore, operators should not only focus as they have done up to now on
selling products and/or services. tourism, but in selling the territory with
the elements that make it up. For this change to take place in tourism
marketing, it is important that operators be clear about the characteristics of
a service, detailed by Kotler and Bowen (2004), as shown in
Figure 4.
Inseparable character :Services cannot be separated from their providers Next, a proposal is presented that disaggregates
the conception of tourism with the characteristics of intangible goods such
as services in marketing processes, taking into account the character of
the territory, the site in which the elements of culture, identity are
implanted and developed. and patrimony that must contain the service to
offer. Fig 5. Comprehensive Vision of Tourism and
Territory. Own elaboration.
4. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS:
It is evident
that when the tourist has the experience in the tourist destination and makes
use of the services included in the tourist offer, the experience and
manifestation of the expressions of the Territory, culture and identity emerge,
which are charged with emotion (Cause multiple emotions), symbolism and
argumentation of the idiosyncrasies of the communities that are visited.
The emotion
that the tourist experience arouses and that will be sold in marketing has two
great virtues, being timeless and being universal. However, when the emotion is
complemented with all the symbolic and argumentative load of the regions, as is
the case of folklore, it generates in the tourist a special, unique and
unrepeatable experience, which will very surely be replicated through marketing
strategies, the which will guarantee the increase in satisfaction and the
motivation of potential clients to live this experience, since the tourist
tells and describes the perceived image of the territory in its entirety, that
is, that in some way it has appropriated the culture and identity rooted in the
tourist destination as an integral and novel element of their experience.
The Tourist will
talk about the destination, according to the experience and experience he had
with the territory, therefore, the vision of the territory (Tourist
Destination) that each tourist perceives, must be more than the service and
tourist product separately, that is, that the tourist destination territory
takes precedence when formulating marketing strategies, that is, it is necessary
to sell the experience in the territory, not the tourism services or products
in isolation.
On the other hand,
if Marketing processes are viewed from a territorial concept, it would be
understood that the best tourist for a destination is not the one that pays the
most or acquires the most services, but the most suitable tourist for said
destination, forming a more precise target and exact to which to focus the
marketing strategy. When designing the marketing plan, not only the
expectations of the tourist but also, and fundamentally, of the Territory must
be taken into account.
Each territory has
a diversity of sui generis spaces that can be highlighted for tourism and that
can very easily be converted into "added values" within the tourist
offer, for which it is imperative to investigate them and recognize these
cultural, historical and patrimonial aspects that give them identity to a
territory to adapt them to the marketing plan. What it is about is awakening a
greater attraction and interest in the tourist and offering something
differentiating that is known as the "territorial identity" since
currently the tourist activity is very competitive in terms of the variety of
destinations and services offered, therefore for which it is essential to focus
the marketing plan not only on providing the best services, but on offering
something more particular and unique that complements the tourist experience
and makes it unique and special, that is, personalizes it.
Likewise,
the knowledge of the type of visitor, their motivations and perspectives, will
allow sustainable planning of tourism in terms of heritage assets.
Another
aspect to be taken into account is that cultural heritage must be understood in
a double sense: cultural and economic, as it is made up of the set of tangible,
movable and immovable assets, and intangible assets, where these assets must be
properly used. economic, social and cultural, without distorting its essence
and authenticity [9].
It
is important that tourist activity is a means to build and preserve the
territory, that is, that tourism is at the service of heritage, culture and
protects the identity of communities and not the other way around, "a
characteristic of cultural tourism It is that it is of very low permanence, but
offers great elasticity by allowing it to be combined with other types of
tourism, allowing tourism activities focused on heritage to be very profitable
(Borrega, 2022).
Undoubtedly,
an element that can make great contributions and make a difference in a new conception
of the vision of Tourism immersed in the territory as a whole, is the
"education" of both the host communities and tourists and visitors to
the destination. tourism, since educating through marketing sensitizes and
raises awareness about respect for the existing heritage, its values,
principles, idiosyncrasies, culture and identity of society. This not only
contributes to the mission of preservation and conservation of the territory
and heritage, but also to the development of the tourist activity itself, where
the visitor fully satisfies his expectations by living the complete experience
through learning about other cultures. In addition, it is known that cultural
tourism is more successful when it coexists with the "everyday life of the
territory", that is, it has interacted with its routine activities and
appreciated the constitutive elements of heritage. In this sense, it is
essential to tend in the formulation of the tourism marketing plan to recover
and preserve the authenticity of heritage, protecting it from the vicissitudes
that commercial aspects may entail, that is, one should try to highlight what
is culturally and historically representative.
Finally,
it is important to clarify that neither the laws nor the tourism market by
themselves give value to the heritage or the territory, that is, the
responsibility of the same society in which the tourist destination is anchored
that, based on its own claim of cultural identity as a people generate
recognition strategies using marketing to highlight its historical and cultural
importance rather than its commercial value, since self-recognition and
self-valuation of that heritage is really what gives it added value without the
same to generate higher levels of attraction regarding the tourist experience.
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