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Greek Tourism NOT in Crisis? Dr. Georgia Zouni
Phd in Tourism Marketing University of Piraeus
But what says?
Searches for travel-related information are among the highest-volume queries we
receive at Google
https://www.google.com/press/ita/faq.html
Tourism in Greece
• Greece has been an attraction for international visitors since antiquity for its rich and long history, Mediterranean coastline and beaches (Gerrard, 2014).
• Greece launched its tourism in the international arena, which started flourishing in the early 1970s
• The tourism industry has been and still is one of the main pillars of the Greek economy over a period of more than forty years.
Some Greek Tourism statistics
• Exceeded 24.2 million tourists visited Greece in 2014, according to final figures from the Bank of Greece.
• Incoming tourists increased last year by 20.7% compared with 2013.
• Arrivals from the United Kingdom increased by 13.2% and amounted to 2.09m travellers.
Time for celebration?
"If the data we have so far is accurate and continues to show this positive trend, Greek tourism will have a positive season for 2015 in relation to previous years," Kountoura Minister of Tourism said.
The Competitive Position of Greek Tourism
• This table presents the country’s performance on the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI)
• The competitive score and ranking for Greece over the last years is steadily declining!
International tourists in Greece: Expenditure per trip, per overnight spent and average
duration of stay
• As illustrated in the Table, the expenditure per trip and per overnight is falling steadily after 2008 whether the average duration of stay increases
Ορισμός
• A value proposition is a hypothesis that your offering will bring certain values to a target
• customer. *
• * Like any hypothesis, it needs to be rigorously tested in the lab (read: marketplace) before money is put into scaling. 2010, Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur,
Business Model Generation
An ancient Greek religious site dating back 10 centuries B.C.
The birth-place of the Olympic Games.
The location of giant gold Statue of Zeus, one of seven wonders of the world
Place where Olympic flame is still lit
An UNESCO Heritage Site
It hosts one of the masterpieces of ancient Greek art, Hermes of Praxiteles.
Ancient Olympia, Greece
18,4
15,8
13,2 13,2
10,2
7,15,3
18,9
32,6
14,7
3,2
17,9
7,4
3,2
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
UK French German Greek Italian Spanish Nederlands
% NATIONALITY
Visitors’ actual demographic profile
Providers’ estimate of visitors’ profile
Results
British
Female
Young (19-39)
holds a university degree
monthly income exceeds 3.000
euros.
French
Male
Older
uneducated
Poorer that he really is.
Results Outline
The REAL Tourist of Olympia The PERCEIVED Tourist of Olympia
strategic fit
False perceptions lead to ineffective decision making for •marketing segmentation •positioning & •marketing mix formulation.
Continually analysing and researching visitors/ potential visitors and tourism
providers!*
* offline & online
Lean & Business Model
• In 2010, Alexander Osterwalder and Yves
Pigneur published Business Model Generation
• In 2011 Eric Ries published The Lean Startup
• In 2012 Bob Dorf and Steve Blank summarized
what we’d learned in a step-by-step handbook
called The Startup Owner’s Manual
Value proposition type:
Newness
Performance
Customization
Getting the job done
Design
Price
Cost reduction
Risk reduction
Accessibility
Usability
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