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Abstract

The present case study examines a community’s market responsiveness to tourism. The current axiom in business is that individual organizations must be responsive to customer needs; whether the same holds true for communities as a unified tourist offering is less clear. A mixed methods approach is used to determine whether an award-winning tourism community exhibits the three criteria for market orientation (Slater & Narver, 1999). The findings suggest that market responsiveness as described in the literature may not be a requirement for success when examining communities rather than individual firms.

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DOI

10.20429/jamt.2017.070104

Publication Date

4-2017

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Hollingsworth, Les (2017). Community-level market responsiveness to tourism. Journal of Applied Marketing Theory, 7(1), 57-79. ISSN: 2151-3236. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/jamt/vol7/iss1/4

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