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Implementation of regional marketing in development of selected region, municipality
GORYLOVÁ, Jana
Marketing can be broadly applied not only in the manufacturing sector but also in many other areas of life. It can be successfully used to promote regions and villages. This particular type of marketing brings together many other varieties of marketing: marketing of non-profit sector, marketing of services, marketing of tourism or marketing of regions. The usage of marketing for promotion of regions can have many varieties. It can be promotion of village for various segments of population to attract new residents, tourists or potential investors. Marketing can stress out some extraordinary feature of the village or put emphasis on the differentiation of the region compared to the other locations. Such differentiation can include creation of job opportunities, improvement of infrastructure, better conditions for new investors or accent on the environmental and health aspects. Marketing can't be seen as purely propagation, it is forming new view where the location is treated as product and the users as potential customers, which should benefit from the product and whose needs should be satisfied by the product. The promotion can't be forgotten as besides advertisement it includes also creation of brand, building of image and positive public relation Complex urban marketing (as the ultimate form of city marketing) creates concept for city development, which utilizes the partnership of all stakeholders who have interest on the development of given area. Cooperation and communication between all partners from private, public or company sectors enables exchange of knowledge of the participants, support of same goals, setting of same priorities and evaluation of selected approaches from various angles. The common target is to increase the attractiveness of the city and improvement of the competitiveness as well as boosting of the citizens identity.
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