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Beyond tourism: Development of place branding in the context of the City of Prague
Legáthová, Lucia ; Koudelková, Petra (advisor) ; Moravcová, Hana (referee)
In today's global landscape, cities and regions are increasingly competing for investments, tourists, and talent, prompting the adoption of multi-dimensional branding strategies beyond tourism promotion. City branding has emerged as a means to enhance the overall image and attractiveness of cities. Despite growing academic interest in city branding, a research gap exists, specifically in the case of Prague, where the international perception does not align with the progressive transformation of the city. The case study of the City of Prague is explored to examine its city branding efforts, uncover the most pressing challenges and provide possible solutions through a combination of content analysis of key strategic documents and semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders. Findings reveal a discrepancy between Prague's desired image and its branding efforts, hindered by a lack of clear leadership, political interest, coordination and long-term strategic vision. Addressing these challenges will be crucial for Prague to build a distinctive and successful city brand. Establishing clear leadership, engaging political stakeholders early in the process and defining clear and measurable objectives are among the potential solutions to bridge the gap between Prague's desired image and its branding efforts.
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Success factors of place branding of European cities
Zakharova, Dinara ; Koudelková, Petra (advisor) ; Klabíková Rábová, Tereza (referee)
The thesis is devoted to determining the factors influencing the success of place branding implementation in European cities. The involvement of stakeholders in the city branding process, the focus of city branding strategy on citizens and life quality increase, the inclusion of the EU- level stakeholder represented by the "Eurocities" network, management of digital identity, and the inclusion of the rhetoric of sustainability and "greenness" into the place branding strategy are considered as factors that can influence the success of city branding implementation in European cities. The analysis proved that city branding is a complex process that cannot be influenced by only one factor. The study outlined three elements necessary for the success of city branding of European cities. These factors include the involvement of stakeholders in the city branding process, digital identity management, and the inclusion of the rhetoric of sustainability and "greenness" into the place branding strategy. Also, the combination of factors sufficient to produce place branding was identified. Thus, for place branding to be successful, the place branding strategy should simultaneously involve citizens, focus on the citizens and life quality increase, and include management of digital identity and the rhetoric of...
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Marketing communication of Pilsen in connection with the nomination for the title of the European capital of culture 2015
Vysloužilová, Kristýna ; Dolanská, Nora (advisor) ; Shavit, Anna (referee)
The goal of this bachelor thesis is to analyze the communication activities of the city of Pilsen in connection with its nomination for the title of the European Capital of Culture 2015. The thesis contains an essential description of approaches to place marketing which are further supported by foreign literature. The thesis also focuses on place branding and strategic marketing planning processes in this particular area. A complete overview and description of the project of the European Capital of Culture is also included and its potential applications in the field of marketing are considered. The thesis furthermore covers the integration of this project into the long-term development of the city of Pilsen. This is mainly achieved through the analysis of strategic development documents of the city. A crucial part is dedicated to the analysis of the applied communication activities. These are analyzed within the period which is defined by the fall of 2009 and by the day when the city was officially awarded the title, that is the 19th of May 2011. This period is divided into two segments: before and after winning the competition due to significant changes in the competencies and in the approach to communication. This thesis analyzes the communication tools and the communication strategy concept for...
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Kvalita place brandingu v internetovém prostoru krajů ČR
Těšík, Petr
This diploma thesis deals with modern discipline called place branding or brand of territory. The aim of this work is to create a comprehensive information base for the creation of territorial brands, according to modern trends. For this object was made the theoretical part of the thesis, which is about basic elements that should contain all functioning brands. After the municipal concept of place branding, the work is more focused on the Czech Republic promotion and on the internet which is the main instrument of branding. For this purpose, the website of the Czech regions was examined in detail by the developed system of evaluation. Additional promotional websites found by a specified key have been included to the descriptions of regions. This comprehensive research reveals strengthts and weeknesses of the web pages.
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City branding of Czech regional capital cities
Jenček, Lubor ; Šifta, Miroslav (advisor) ; Šerý, Miloslav (referee)
Lubor JENČEK: City branding krajských měst v Česku Abstract This thesis deals with city branding of Czech regional capital cities. Its goal is to compare city branding of Czech regional capital cities and reveal a functional mechanism of city branding in practice. The theoretical framework of this thesis is based on the concept of branding, which is first discussed in general and later theoretically and practically expanded. Its functions in general are discussed. In the empirical part, the main research attention is dedicated to concepts of place branding and city branding on the case of the contemporary city branding of Czech regional capital cities The thesis aims to answer six research questions divided into three thematical groups - interpretation of Czech regional capital cities' brands, motivation for their creating and use, and the ways how to manage them. Answers to these questions should reveal actual condition of Czech city branding. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods is used in this thesis. Data were acquired by questionnaire survey targeted at all Czech regional capital cities' representatives, and semi-structured interviews with representatives of four selected cities (Ostrava, Zlín, Plzeň and Ústí and Labem) as case studies. The results of the thesis can be applied in...
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Marketing communication of Pilsen in connection with the nomination for the title of the European capital of culture 2015
Vysloužilová, Kristýna ; Dolanská, Nora (advisor) ; Shavit, Anna (referee)
The goal of this bachelor thesis is to analyze the communication activities of the city of Pilsen in connection with its nomination for the title of the European Capital of Culture 2015. The thesis contains an essential description of approaches to place marketing which are further supported by foreign literature. The thesis also focuses on place branding and strategic marketing planning processes in this particular area. A complete overview and description of the project of the European Capital of Culture is also included and its potential applications in the field of marketing are considered. The thesis furthermore covers the integration of this project into the long-term development of the city of Pilsen. This is mainly achieved through the analysis of strategic development documents of the city. A crucial part is dedicated to the analysis of the applied communication activities. These are analyzed within the period which is defined by the fall of 2009 and by the day when the city was officially awarded the title, that is the 19th of May 2011. This period is divided into two segments: before and after winning the competition due to significant changes in the competencies and in the approach to communication. This thesis analyzes the communication tools and the communication strategy concept for...
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Place identity, image and place branding: new perspectives and strategies of the municipal and regional development in the time of globalisation
Frantál, Bohumil
In connection with dynamic liberation, extension and integration of European space, with reduction of function of original politically delimited borders and with regard to global processes questions of place (state, regional and local) identities have been becoming frequently discussed issues and practical problems to deal with. In a time characteristic of perpetual change, uncertainty, fragmentation of social life, diversity and inconsistence of its forms the identity (self-definition) of a single person and their embedment in social-geographical space is getting more and more important. Together with spreading globalisation whose denominators are substantial mobility of capital, labour force, technologies and informations, with increasing competition among municipalities and regions in a sense of use and profit of available resources the identity and image of place become the key marketing tools in strategic planning of developing activities and their implementation.
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