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Level 7 Diploma in Tourism and Hospitality Management

Internet Marketplace Dynamics and Digital Consumer Behaviour

THM704 · Digital Tourism and Hospitality — Week 3 of 16

CourseTHM704
Week3 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Internet Marketplace Dynamics and Digital Consumer Behaviour

  1. Digital customer journey mapping and search behaviour
  2. Enterprise e-commerce adoption and direct-to-consumer channels
  3. Dynamic pricing and real-time inventory strategies
  4. Online marketplace mapping
  5. The Customer Journey & the Marketing Funnel | Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Certificate
  6. What is Dynamic Pricing? How does Uber set its prices?

What you will be able to do

  • 2.3 Analyse how consumers and businesses make use of the internet in the tourism marketplace.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse how consumers and businesses make use of the internet in the tourism marketplace.

Study materials

Videos

  • Online marketplace mapping · YouTube · Dr Dave - Dr Dave Chaffey · 8 min · for registered students
  • The Customer Journey & the Marketing Funnel | Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Certificate · YouTube · Grow with Google · 32 min · for registered students
  • What is Dynamic Pricing? How does Uber set its prices? · YouTube · HubSpot Marketing · 9 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Online Choice Architecture: how digital design can harm competition and consumers (CMA, 2022) · PDF · GOV.UK, report; 76 pages · for registered students
  • Transition Pathway for Tourism (European Commission, 2022) · Reading · Eu, report · for registered students
  • Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large-Scale Field Experiment · PDF · NBER, article · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Historical Evolution of Technology in Tourism and Hospitali…
  • Week 2: The Emergence of the Digital Tourism Concept
  • Week 3: Internet Marketplace Dynamics and Digital Consumer Behaviour
  • Week 4: Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) and Meta-Search Aggregation
  • Week 5: Social Media in International Tourism Marketing
  • Week 6: Destination Marketing and User-Generated Content
  • Week 7: Online Reputation Management and Social Review Platforms
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Contemporary Technologies and Future Sector Growth
  • Week 10: Information Security in Technology Implementation
  • Week 11: Data Protection, Privacy, and Ethical Governance
  • Week 12: Applying Digital Tourism and Hospitality in practice: case …
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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