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Marketing Advertising in the Hotel Industry


Abstract

Until recently research on advertising appeals focused on either physical products or a comparison in relation to the way in which advertising appeals differed between products and services (predominantly professional services). With the continuing growth in the MICE and 5 star resort hotel market, the purpose of this paper is to look at the effectiveness of rational and emotional advertising appeals with respect to the MICE and 5 star resort hotel sector and provide a foundation for further study in this area.
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I would like to thank XXXXX whose tireless efforts and support allowed me to complete this paper.TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.INTRODUCTION5
2.AIMS AND OBJECTIVES6
3.PROVIDING A RATIONAL FOR THE WORK7
4.LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK8
5.METHODOLOGY14
6.FINDINGS, ANALYSES AND EVALUATION16
7.FINAL DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION20
8.RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH21
LIST OF REFERENCES22
APPENDICES24
APPENDIX 1 QUESTIONNAIRE24
APPENDIX 2 QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE SUMMARY27
APPENDIX 3 FOCUS GROUP SCRIPT31


1.Introduction
Advertising appeals are essentially the methods which advertisers employ to sell products and services. Some of the more common forms of advertising appeals include money (saving, making and/or retaining), well being, sex, health, fun, pleasure, love, fear, admiration, convenience, vanity, egotism and environmentalism.
Different forms of advertising appeals are more effective for selling different types of products or services. Likewise, cultural factors play a large role in how well a particular advertising campaign is received by consumers.
Within the Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE) and 5 star resort hotel industry, advertising appeals are generally classified according to whether they are rational or emotional appeals.
The difference between how effective each of these is can only be ascertained when the customer's preferences are taken into account. However, it should be remembered that the use of advertising appeals is not a precise science and that the difference between a campaign which is highly effective and one that is not can often be the matter of a few words or the use of the wrong colour.
The most important factor with respect to the effectiveness of advertising appeals are the existing customer attitudes toward the product or service and the need or want that the customer is seeking to have the product or service fulfil. It is not therefore surprising that an advertising appeal which is effective in engaging business customers may not fare as well when appealing to leisure customers.
The purpose of this paper is therefore to examine, both by secondary and primary research methods, the which type of advertising appeal (ie rational or emotional) is most effective when selling MICE and 5 star resort hotels to leisure and business clients.

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