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In today's conditions, where face-to-face communication of the customer and the operator is increasingly difficult, thanks to this service offered by the fairs, the importance is increasing rapidly. In this study, it was aimed to put forward the importance of the advantages that the accommodation businesses, participating in the international tourism fairs, will provide and use this situation as an effective marketing tool. In this study, firstly the concepts of marketing, accommodation business and fair were examined by reviewing the literature and then analayses were conducted on the data obtained from the 423 businesses through the questionnaires held at the EMITT and Travel Turkey fairs in order to put forward the importance of international tourism fairs for accommodation business. According to the results of factor analysis, two associations were defined as customer relationship scale, product development and competition scale. According to the results of Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis analysis, it was found a meaningful relationship between the two factors. According to the correlation analysis result, it is found that there is a meaningful relationship between product development and competition and customer relations. |