Wednesday, April 1

Public relations and promotion in travel and tourism in Turkey


Assignment 1…….We need :  Introduction to Turkey, PR-definition, PR-function/user, PR advantages and

disavantages , PR Turkey, Turkey tourism board (give name).   Advertising should not be writing about.  This assignment is about public relations

A)   Role and scope of public relation as a promotional tool


Turkey is a transcontinental country situated in Western Asis and  Southeastern Europe. Turkey have a strategic position scheming the Turkish Straits that connect Aegeon Sea and Black. Turkey’s geography consists of constricted coastal plains on the west that become more and more rugged as it progress eastward. The government scheme is a republican parliamentary democracy.
Public relation:
Public relation is the condition of the connection between a corporation or other association or a famous individual and the public.

Functions of the public relations are:
Ø  Community Relations
Ø  Employee Relations
Ø  Government Relations
Ø  Financial Relations
Ø  Media Relations
Ø  Public Affairs

Public realtion’s advantages and disadvantages:
There are a range of advantages of PR and the overriding lone is its authority appeal to a large viewers. If it is a newspaper or a magazine, millions of reader will notice the information of your industry and appreciate it. Other advantage of PR is a great responses. etc


There are some disadvantages also: -
PR is a very hard discipline to realize conduct productively. A strategy supported by the expert information of the media will be required if you desire to get into the media wherever you can obtain high response to your promotions.

Functions of Turkey public realtions:
Public relations functions of Turkey are the same as mentioned above.
Name of Turkish ourism board:
The name of the Turkish tourism board is “Turkish Culture and Tourisim Office”.
(Anna, Rachel, Marion & Brian, 2003)
In Turkey a lot of people little entrepreneurs choose to handle the advertising exercises for their own particular organizations, while others decide to contract an advertising master. Supervisors of to a degree bigger firms, then again, often contract with outside advertising or promoting organizations to upgrade their corporate picture. Anyway whatever alternative is picked, the leader of an organization is at last in charge of its advertising.

Tools and key activities for public relations in Turkey

In the last few years, it has been progressively more paramount to strike up advertising through a mixture of diverse online media and informal organizations. It is a decent method for contacting a vast group of onlookers with least venture. It permits you to extend a positive picture, pick up adherents, keep up contact with your customers, organize and advance your items and/ or benefits in an immediate manner easily. (Steven, 2005)
An essential arrangement or procedure for public relations ought to contain the accompanying components:

·       Goals.
·       Meaning of the intended interest group.
·       Message (what would you like to say to the intended interest group).
·       Method.
·       Strategies.
·       Arranging.
·       Plan.
·       Key execution markers.
·       Assessment component.
The following are situated out a portion of the fundamental undertakings that can be utilized to help you create your advertising method for your tourism organization. These can be partitioned into inward advertising (went for the specialists) and outside advertising (went for customers, speculators, open organizations, and so on.):NEXT Picture with example with Internal Public Relations and External Public Relations need to be on Task 2

  

B) Diversity of publics and audience, including the current and potential visitors and other stakeholders within tourism and travel context….. All this Task B is wrong. Be about : Turkey--Tourist current and potential, airline industry, hospitality industry, tour operators, travel agent, government.


Turkey’s current and potential tourist:
In 2013, Turkey’s tourism and travel saw higher existing value increase compared with the evaluation period average. It  was owed to improved economic situation in the country, competitive prices for flights and promotions on packaged holidays. Despite of the continuing economic recession in some European countries, political tension in the Middle East and the, the number of arrivals also registered growth. Following are the numbers about the current tourists from the various countries: -
Country
No. of visitors
Germany
5.0 million
Russia
3.5 million
United Kingdom
2.4 million
Bulgaria
1.5 million
Georgia
1.4 million
Netherlands
1.2 million
Iran
1.1 million
France
1.0 million
United States
0.8 million
Syria
0.7 million
                       


Over the predict period travel and tourism is anticipated to demonstrate good worth growth at steady. Enhanced economic situation and a more steady political position are anticipated to drive sales. Toristes form all over the world are expected to visti Turkey. The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism has strategy to greatly spend in  advertising and promotional  actions abroad in order to add to inbound tourism to Turkey. Also, growing investment in  entertainment centres, hotels,  health and wellness centres are anticipated to fuel growth in the predicted period.

Airline Industry:
There are various airlines are in operation in Turkey, the main airline is “Turkish Arilines”. Turkish Airlines accounted for the chief share of value sales in tourism and travel in 2013. The company is accopmany world’s fourth largest flight network, fleet of 231 aircraft at the ending of the review period. Turkish Airlines recorded a resounding achievement at the Skytrax World Airline Awards, 2013 with air travellers voting the airline for the third consecutive year as the “Best Airline in Europe”.

Hospitality Industry:
Analysis  gives a positive picture of the hospitality sector with great future opportunities. Average prices are lower than the neighboring countries, and there is inflexible price competition among the many competitors in the Turkish hospitality market.there are some issues in the industry like  Increasing input costs , unrecorded transactions, less organized businesses in the sector and tax avoidance among smaller.  It some other strengths like a wide range of natural attractions, availability of an excellent coastline, unique historical and archaeological sites and a suitable climate,  Well-trained workforce,  Strong government support behind the industry. There is unutilized potential not only in coastal tourism but also in various other types of tourism including health & thermal resources, golfing, winter sports, yachting. .(Steven, 2005)

Tour Operators & Travel Agents:
A good quality travel agent in Turkey help travelers resembling you plan trips similar to yours every day,  is in touch with current conditions, knows all the good (and bad) travel services and can advise accordingly.
A Turkish travel agent is particularly helpful if you desire to get married in Turkey. Good travel agent who knows every thing about the bureaucracy and paperwork also best florists, photographers and caterers.
Some of the famous Turkish Travel operators and agents are given below: -

Efendi Travel:
It is highly-recommendable travel agency for those with deluxe to moderate travel styles, based in Istambul. Efendi Travel have the facility to  pick you up at the cruise ship dock or airport , arrange for private guides, transfer you to your Istanbul hotel, rental cars and tours, and onward flights, all with personal service  and 24-hour availability. They also arrange innovative walking tours in Istanbul and have several good value-for-money hotels in Istanbul. Their Backpackers Travel division is particularly good for travelers looking for moderately-budget- priced travel arrangements.

Argeus Tourism & Travel:

A all-around fine agency accessible to make any planning for you anywhere in Turkey: reservations, hotel, car rental, airport pick-up, with good guided tours.

Travel Atelier:

Extremely pleasant and upbeat to work with, this husband-and-wife- agency. It is an experienced travel team who can assist plan any sort of outing, anywhere in Turkey. If you're scheduling a wedding / honeymoon in Turkey, these are the  people to contact.

Rock Valley Tourism & Travel:

Aptly-named Rock Valley's strong point is tour of Aladağlar National Park and Cappadocia, but they too arrange tours to eastern Turkey, Şanlıurfa and Nemrut Dağı as well as all other travel agency services all through Turkey.
Turkish government role in tourism:
More contributing to Turkey’s strong socio-economic growth, the Turkish Ministry of Tourism and non-governmental actors of the tourism industry are functioning towards growing tourism receipts by utilizing the full potential of different opportunities in this key industry. Turkish government offers program and pursue policies that propose reduced utility prices and lower tax rates, while positively eliminating any bureaucratic barrier that may hinder sectorial increase. The combined hard work of the industry organizations and government have already enabled the increase of investment in new areas, such as building of large convention and expo centers which increase convention tourism, mainly in the country’s largest city, Istanbul. With its exclusive location that bridges Asia and Europe and with state-of-the-art facilities, over a hundred five-star hotels and, the historic metropolis is the perfect destination for large-scale international fairs, gatherings,  and exhibitions.

2 Audit of internal and external environment within the context of setting relevant goals and objectives for the campaign using a range of PR and promotional skills…..ALL TASK 2 IS WRONG.  BE ABOUT :TURKEY P.E.S.T.L.E.analysis and S.W.O.T.analysis


Turkish Travel and Torism

SWOT ANLAYSIS:

Ø  Strenghts:

·       Strong commitment towards sustainable tourism.
·       Govenemtn support of new developments in line with national strategy
·       Clear long-term strategy
·       Availabiltiy of diverse geography
·       Well established brand
Ø  Weaknesses:

·       Average prices lower than neighbouring countries comptetions with Turkey

·       Increasing input costs
·       Lack of regulations in the less organized businesses sectors

Ø  Oppourtunities:
·       Promote regional coordination
·       Elimination of capital into under developed regions
·       Increased attractivenesss of FDI

Ø  Threats:

·       Already established torusim market may fight change
·       Strengthening of Turkish currency
·       Reional unrest-neghbouring conflicts

PESTL analysis:  
Ø  Political:
·       Syerian refugees-over population will result in over population of refugee camps, umplement, social and civil unres, illegal activities.
·       Deterionation of realtions with Iran will procuce difficulty to construct a unified silk road

Ø  Economic:

·       large privatization, ecomoic and judicial reforms, strong and stable growth, structural changes in banking; foreigners will be more interested in investing into an economically stabe country.
·       Prospective EU membership; stability boosts Turkey attractiveness.

Ø  Social:

·       Faster type of growing households couples, without children will result in great segment opportunity to focus on for a potential segmentation.
·       Rinsing urbanization trend; better jobs, education and entertainement for rural towns’ citizens will result new jobs opportunities in rural towns.

Ø  Technological:
·       The solar energy potential of Turkey is hgier than the potential of several EU countries together; attractive investment opportunites for renewable energy
·       Lower efficiency in energy utilization compared to other EU countries; high initial investment but greater returns.
·       Lack of financial resources of local entrepreneurs; jobs for engineers and specialist.

Ø  Legal:

·       Easy to obtain construction permits.
·       Turkey construction industry; words’s 2nd largest behind chnia provides a lot of employement. Fast growing of the construction industry’s active participation of the private sector result in more benefits thatn the public sector. It will result in driving force in the economic uplift of the country and good opportunities for the silk road project.


3 Public promotion plan with appropriate promotional objectivesFor POINT 3 is about Public Relation Plan with press conference and use exemple 2 –PRBudgeting


Plan and objectives:
·       The current lack of a physical planning practice will ber overcome by means of various regulatory arrangements to set out and implement coordination.
·       An integrated approach shall be adopted and maintained for planning efforts in areas with high local tourism potential, instead of a problem-focused conception of planning.
·       The fragmented and plot based planning practice should be discountiuned and tourism cities with remarkable global competitive power should be established.
·       Technical personnel support will be provided for entities and organizations bearing the authority to approve plans at local level and thus the development of tourism shall be diredted.
·       Provisons shall be made for established of particpative mechanisms such as Local Agenda with local council’s becoming functional in a given neighborhood. Promising areas where organized tourism activities can easily be developed shall be of preference when selecting toruism development areas in any given locally, while in the mean time a systematic structuring is assured through solution proposals for tenancy, infrastructure and enviormnetal concerns.

Strategies:
·       Reroute all tourism investments toward reducing the imbalances of welfare and development imbalances throughtout the country and treat them with an approach that safeguards, conserves and improves the natural, historical, cultural and social environment.
·       Broadent he base of participation in social, cultural and artistic events and propagate the notion of development.
·       Reveal and expose, primarily with scientific studies, the cultural and artistic values and heritage and crate a community awareness on these assets.
·       Realting the tourism industry’s development with market facts in orde to help a healthy structuring and increased productivity.
·       Respond to both the rehabilitation needs of theinvestment environment and the ever changing global trends and contemporary demands.
·       Conserve and use natural resources in the most economically and ecologically sustainable way.
According to example different promotional tools will be used like printed invitation, tv, email, envelops, print media etc.


Assignment 2 …..PLEASE READ ON Assignment 2 title SCENARIO AND ASSIGNMENT CONTEXT.. NEED TO CHOOSE A MEDIUM TO LARGE UK TOUR OPERATOR .   In assignment 2 You have not selected a tour operator.

a)    Range of media suitable for public relation campaign


I have selected Cosmos Holidyay. Cosmos Holidays is the UK's largest independent tour operator and one of the oldest and well established holiday brands in UK. Working for last 60 years. Cosmos at all times aim's to provide their customers with everything that make the ideal holiday - from putting the good package together to their service in resort. In spite of being the biggest autonomous operator in the UK, they are smaller than the chiefly publicly owned tour operators, which gives them the flexibility to react to customer wants as and when they occur, that's the Cosmos family.
Cosmas indend to start its operations in Turkey also. Range of suitable media for public relation complain are given below:

Print Campaigns

Print advertising fights commonly are embodied a procedure in which an advertising delegate conveys press discharges to different media outlets. These discharges advance an organization change, another item or another administration. Parts of the media might then utilize the discharge to compose a story, or they may contact the organization for an all the more inside and out meeting. Excellent PR specialists will have a rundown of media contacts that can be depended upon to expose the story. New specialists might not have developed their individual contacts in the media yet and might not have as much fortunes setting stories.

Radio and Television Campaigns

Radio and TV battles are comparable generally to print crusades. Discharges and warnings are conveyed to projects that are identified with what is constantly advanced. Radio hosts are regularly in need of visitors and will be interested in booking a speaker for a meeting, especially on the off chance that they are a built master or have a superb track record in business. National TV meetings are more hard to land, however neighborhood media may be intrigued by doing a meeting.

Online Campaigns

Online advertising fights are getting to be progressively famous and work in an assortment of distinctive ways. The primary is extremely aloof. A discharge is composed and upgraded with watchwords that are identified with the item or business. This discharge is then posted on an assortment of distinctive sites that are, thusly, creeped via web crawlers. The organization's discharge is then pulled up when clients search for those catchphrases. Social networking and podcast battles are likewise getting to be more regular in this enclosure. PR operators search out podcasters in a related field and attempt to timetable telephone meetings for their customers.

Notoriety Management Campaigns

Notoriety administration crusades are regular, yet are never advanced well - an immediate dichotomy in advertising. These battles are utilized to shape or reshape popular notion and work off camera. They may depend on posting positive remarks on destinations where an organization has been censured, or they may be more forceful and really assault an alternate organization that has freely defamed them

Relationship between public relation in travel and tourism sector and the media

Advertising contrasts from other showcasing instruments –mainly publicizing  in imparting messages in light of the fact that it is the advertising that best makes the dispatch of a brand, as it has a more prominent believability. Besides, advertising is very economical contrasted with publicizing. (Graham, 2004)
Advertising is turning into the a standout amongst the most imperative parts of promoting and deals capacities of tourism as its definition incorporates "to advance enhanced seeing in the middle of administrators and their open". Expanded rivalry in the business compels the administrators to make familiarity with another item or office for the clients. Pictures are manufactured and made by advertising through print media, informal, and the mentality of the focused on crowd. In the event that done legitimately, potential visitors will know how they will advantage, take in and develop from going to a specific site or occasion. notice, tourism business is portrayed by flexibility of decision from the single person regarding choice of end of the line, transport mode thus on and by solid rivalry among the different portions of industry (counting the goals) that supply the business sector
Case in point, Travel Industry Association of America, distributed in their site that travel and tourism positions as America's third biggest retail deals industry and it is the country's biggest administration send out industry, and is one of America's biggest superintendents. The case is not diverse in United Kingdom. Around the world, the UK positions the seventh in the universal tourism profit class notwithstanding the fall in landings (roughly 9.4%) after the terrorist assaults. What's more the tourism business speaks to 7.1% of aggregate job. In addition, tourism produces 8% of London's GDP which is in the meantime, the city's second biggest industry

b)    PR and promotional skill

Shared view Public Relations helps our customers get the most out of their associations with key groups of onlookers. We accept intensive, captivating and important interchanges can upgrade shopper and representative dedication, inspire venture, enhance comprehension and reception of new advances, and effect your main concern.
Our generally little size gifts us the chance to work in a purposefully synergistic, profoundly captivating path inside our group and with our customers. We put resources into the databases and exploration engineering to level the playing field with "huge organizations" yet accept our energy and agility bring far more prominent results. (Steven, 2005)

Effectiveness of chosen media

Open air promoting/bulletins: These achieve a larger number of individuals for a dollar than whatever other media, yet are constrained to a picture and close to eight words.
Radio: Reaches the second most individuals for a dollar, however can't be focused on geologically and must be inexactly demographically focused on. Yet in the event that individuals will drive huge separations to purchase your item, or in case you're offering a "we come to you" benefit, this is likely your most logical option.
Digital TV: Offers the effect of moving pictures and additionally talked words. Can undoubtedly be geologically focused on. Be that as it may your notice will probably look custom made.
Telecast TV: Big esteem. Gobs of cash. Yet ready to target psychographic profiles. Purchase particular shows; never purchase a rotator.
Daily papers: Reach clients who are in the business to purchase today. Shockingly, individuals not at present in the business sector for your item or administration are more averse to perceive your commercial than if it had showed up in an alternate media.
Magazines: Expensive, however high-affect with tight focusing on. Minimal waste. Shortcoming is rarity of reiteration.
Standard mail: Highly focused on, the distance down to the level of the single person. At the same time shockingly costly to do right.
Business index: Essentially an administration catalog for the client who has not yet made up his or her brain. Exceptionally silly for retail organizations. (Graham, 2004)

Conclusion

More than 90% of tourism using is thought to release far from groups close most nature tourism locales. In spite of the fact that the abnormal state of spillage ought to be considered and ought to be decreased where conceivable, one ought to recollect that this spillage not just comes about because of the way of the tourism business, which requires considerable use before entry on location, additionally from the way of the remote groups where ecotourism happens. Other monetary exercises in these groups presumably likewise will display large amounts of spillage essentially in light of the fact that the nearby economies are little and not extremely differing. Besides, however the quantity of occupations made will be low, in provincial economies even a couple of employments can have a huge effect. Still, ecotourism advantages ought not be oversold, or there may be a backfire as reality neglects to satisfy desires.


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