The issues of finding new ways to overcome the crisis of tourism enterprises are studied. The factors of negative impact of the Covid pandemic on the tourism industry are revealed. Attention is focused on the study of marketing activities in the process of survival of tourism enterprises. Emphasis is placed on studying the peculiarities of the use of digital marketing tools by tourist enterprises.
The aim of the work is to study digital marketing activities to ensure the sustainability and full functioning of the tourism sector on the basis of flexibility and adaptability to changes in internal and external environment.
The article presents the thesis that the successful functioning of enterprises is based on the skillful use of market patterns, forecasting its priority needs and available resources, competent competition for the consumer.
The author of the article states that marketing is a managerial creative activity aimed at increasing the volume of production (goods, works, services), their sales, based on a thorough study of consumer needs and which ensures the achievement of strategic goals of enterprise development. Acting as a lever to regulate the processes of production and sales, marketing constantly monitors existing markets and searches for new markets, new consumers, new products (goods, works, services), analyzes their requirements and requests, explores all alternatives and offers the most appropriate.
The author emphasizes that tourism marketing is a process of organizing the activities of a tourism enterprise to develop, form and promote new types of tourism services by meeting the needs of tourists in order to provide the highest quality tourism product and profit for the tourism enterprise.
The article substantiates that the stagnation of tourism enterprises exacerbates the issue of finding and implementing anti-crisis measures for the tourism business. In this direction, we believe that a significant role belongs to the use of tourism marketing tools.
The content of specific features of marketing in the field of tourism is revealed.
Emphasis is placed on the fact that digitalization has directly affected the marketing activities of tourism enterprises. The author substantiates that this gave impetus to the rapid spread of digital marketing. Qualitatively new conditions of the growing volumes of the digital marketing environment force marketers to solve difficult tasks on attraction of attention of new and new consumers. In such circumstances, we can safely say that the tools and technologies of digital marketing play a major role in influencing consumer behavior. In addition, modern marketing can no longer work effectively without the use of modern digital technologies.
The article proposes a range of digital marketing tools for tourism enterprises. These are: the transition from website marketing to social networking; creation of high-quality, cognitive, interesting content; transition of marketing policy from push-marketing to pull-marketing; promoting the formation of the most positive personal feedback in electronic form; application of online video broadcasting technologies.
The author emphasizes that the enterprises of the tourist sphere in the conditions of rapidly changing epidemiological circumstances are forced to radically restructure their activities taking into account significant changes in consumer requirements and the spread of digitalization of the world economy. In order to prevent destructive phenomena, the tourism business must be flexibly and dynamically transformed, ensuring its sustainable operation and increasing the potential for post-quarantine recovery.
Features of Marketing Activities of Tourism Enterprises in Ukraine