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Personal Selling in Hospitality
Personal selling in the tourism and hospitality industry is an essential part of destination and hotel sales, driving base demand, creating awareness, and is becoming more competitive than ever before as organizations' continue to learn the benefits of this marketing component. This paper will analyze some of the traits that could be associated with the ideal salesperson in this industry by reviewing the literature as well as conducting an interview with a marketing professional who is a representative of the Hilton Hotel organization. Above all other traits, it was found that the ideal salesperson should have impeccable interpersonal skills that can address the personal issues that a potential client may have and solve their unique problems. Customer's problems are ultimately their needs and these needs can be met by tailoring the marketing message in a personalized way to address the individual needs found in potential clients.
Discussion
A majority of the organizations within the tourism industry have customer relationship management (CRM) systems that have been developed to strategically market to their customer bases that often focus on customer rewards and loyalty programs (Vogt). While CRM...
In fact, much of the literature is devoted to CRM.
In one study a meta-analysis was conducted between 2008 and 2010 and found that the success of loyalty programs was a popular topic while personal selling was sparsely mentioned; these studies addressed various topics including the factors characterizing successful loyalty programs across industries (McCall and Voorhies, 2010); loyalty within the casino industry (Hendler and LaTour, 2008); loyalty programs within the hotel industry (Hu et al., 2010); and a comparison of loyalty programs in the airline and hotel industries (DeKay et al., 2009) and more general studies on CRM were conducted in the hotel industry (Lo et al., 2010) and in the restaurant industry (Asatryan and Oh, 2008), the latter with an interesting application of psychological ownership theory (Line and Runyan).
In a more hands-on approach to marketing, personal selling may involve direct person-to-person contact with a customer or contact via technology and personal selling techniques can be advantageous because they allow you to custom-fit a sale pitch…
Works Cited
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Vogt, C. "Customer Relationship Management in Tourism: Management Needs and Research Applications." Journal of Travel Research (2010): 336-364. Online.
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