Destination and product marketing

Today’s tourism industry is customer-centric and experience-based: visitors’ behavior is researched and customized travel services are developed to meet consumers’ preferences. Source market tour operators and travel agents are developing sophisticated new marketing techniques for segment and lifestyle groups. Unless Jordan employs equally sophisticated tourism marketing, research, and communication techniques, it will lose ground in this increasingly competitive tourism marketplace.

The USAID/Jordan Tourism Development Project II's marketing approach focuses on four main areas:
  1. Support GoJ, MoTA, JTB and the industry to improve capacity in destination marketing
  2. Develop partnerships to improve Jordan’s approach to international markets
  3. Strengthen niche, segmented, and product marketing initiatives
  4. Build sector capacity to plan and market tourism effectively

The adopted overall strategic approach is based on “destination marketing.” While Jordan itself is the overarching destination, JTDII will promote important sub-destinations with attractions for various visitor segments, particularly Amman, Aqaba, the Dead Sea cluster, and Petra. JTDII will support promotion of the Jordan destination through JTB and tour operators, and work with local DMCs to promote sub-destinations. This will help to strengthen tourism destination and product marketing for Jordan.

A US institute for travel agents specialized in Jordan as a destination

In order to enhance the promotion and selling of Jordan in the US, Performance Media Group received USAID/Siyaha support to help establish an institute for travel agents specialized in Jordan. The institute will provide travel agents with key messages and information about Jordan and its tourism offerings which they should convey to potential tourists in order to better sell Jordan and give accurate info about this destination.

Know Your Market to Grow Your Market seminar

31 October 2010

Know Your Market to Grow Your Market

The USAID/Jordan Tourism Development Project II and the Jordan Tourism Board are pleased to invite you to participate in the first seminar of “Know you Market” series. This first seminar will feature the UK Market.

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