Marketing capabilities and competitive advantage of tourist destinations

Objective: This article aims to investigate in a given group of tourist destinations the potential effect of mediation of marketing capabilities (capacity for service innovation, branding capacity, hospitality, and customer relationship management) in the relationship established between the orienta...

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Autores: Alves, Carlos Alberto, Costa, Benny Kramer
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE)
Repositorio:REMark - Revista Brasileira de Marketing
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.uninove.br:article/18697
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.uninove.br/remark/article/view/18697
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Marketing capabilities
Competitive advantage
Tourist destinations
Innovation
Branding
Hospitality
Tourist releationship
Capacidades de marketing
Vantagem competitiva
Destinos turísticos
Inovação
Hospitalidade
Relação com o turista
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Sumario:Objective: This article aims to investigate in a given group of tourist destinations the potential effect of mediation of marketing capabilities (capacity for service innovation, branding capacity, hospitality, and customer relationship management) in the relationship established between the orientation for the market and the competitive advantage of companies in the hospitality sector and its influence on the competitiveness of the tourist destinationMethodology: A survey was carried out in 8 tourist cities, totaling 472 companies in the hospitality sector. As the study's objective is to verify the relationship and mediation between constructs, the statistical technique chosen was Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).Main results: The first result was to prove the relationship between market orientation and competitive advantage. it was then possible to empirically demonstrate that the capacity for innovation, branding capacity, hospitality mediate between the relationship between market orientation and the competitive advantage.Theoretical/methodological contributions: The main contributions of this article are to demonstrate the mediation relations of marketing capabilities (capacity for service innovation, branding capacity, hospitality, and customer relationship management) in the relationship between market orientation and advantage competitive.