POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT OF MARKETING NETWORKS IN THE TOURISM SECTOR IN BULGARIA

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Keywords
marketing, intercompany networks in marketing, tourism sector

Summary
Over the last decade the study of inter-company networks in marketing science has become topical. The concept of these formations is developing, and their manifestations in practice define their specificity and seek opportunities for their development in economic sectors. Being one of the strategic priorities of the national economy, tourism creates conditions for the emergence of marketing networks, which are the subject of this study. The main purpose of this paper is to bring the major intercompany factors (problems and motivation) that form the development potential of tourism marketing networks in Bulgaria. To achieve this objective the following tasks were performed: to present the concept of marketing networks; to clarify the specifics of these networks in the tourism sector; to characterize marketing activities in the tourism sector in a practical aspect; to reveal the status of existing marketing networks in Bulgarian tourism; to define the key problem areas of developed tourism marketing networks; to clarify the attitudes (motivation) of tourist organizations for participation in marketing networks. The thesis argued is that there is potential for positive development of marketing networks in the tourism sector in Bulgaria. The contributions involve revealing the manifestations of marketing networks in tourism, opening of existing marketing networks and confirming that there are incentives to build and progressively develop marketing networks of tourism companies

JEL: M31
Pages: 29
Price: 3 Points

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