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Report title
An analysis on how to reduce flight ticket clustering for popular destinations for holiday bookings during vacation season
Industry partne
The flight partner is X, the partner was founded in the year 1937 and was renamed to the cu
ent name in the year 1965. The focus cities are Halifax Stanfield and Ottawa MacDonald. There are 415 planes in the fleet and the Headquarters are present in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The revenue is 16.5K Million CAD and employees approximately 42000 employees
Research Field
The research field would be Marketing and Strategy
Research problem
During the vacation seasons, tourists plan to travel the most known and heard places in the world. Since the population travelling to these places is from all over the world, the flight ticket booking system receives heavy requests for one destination. This increases the server load and creates pressure on the system.
The solving of this problem has 2 benefits: 1. Reduces load on system and thus pricing is normal, this benefits the customers too
2. it opens up new tourist places in the world for people to visit
Overarching research aim
The research aim explores the different ways in order to understand different Marketing and Strategic decisions that need to be taken in order to divert clustering to uncommon places. It aims to investigate the mindset of tourists and provide similar experiences
Research questions(s)
Based on the overarching research aim, formulate specific research questions your report will address.
What research question(s) will guide your research?
· Name
· Age
· Gende
· Occupation
· Number of members going on trip
· Country of residency
· Country of visit
· Reason for visit
· Research conducted for the place?
· Areas of interest
· Is the ticket price higher than normal?
· Would you like to visit another place with similar experience?
· [if no] If reduced prices are offered or a longer vacation. Then?
Keywords used for literature search
Marketing Strategies for improving tourist experience
Strategies for improving experience without increasing travel price
Strategies to divert online traffic for specific holiday destination
Development plan for creating value in customers mind
Buhalis, D. and Foerste, M., 2015. SoCoMo marketing for travel and tourism: Empowering co-creation of value. Journal of destination marketing & management, 4(3), pp XXXXXXXXXX.
Vellas, F., 2016. The international marketing of travel and tourism: A strategic approach. Macmillan International Higher Education.
References: Two
(2) sources of relevant literature
Name: Thant Sin Min
Student ID# XXXXXXXXXX