How Digital Technology Enhances Hotel Experience? Examining Experiential Marketing of Two Four-Star Hotels in Yogyakarta
Abstract
This study intends to understand how digital technology in particular digital marketing and e-commerce enhance hotel experience. There are few studies discussing how these aspects of technology enhances hotel experience through adoption of the sensory elements of experiential marketing. This is a qualitative study conducted through observation and authors’ individual experience of digital and e-commerce channels of the two four-star hotels in Yogyakarta. Content analysis was used to draw conclusion about the data obtained from observation, individual experience and electronic media of professional publications. The results suggest that stimulating and enhancing hotel experience with digital marketing and e-commerce was inseparable with involving the sensory elements. Moreover, the two hotels not only optimized the sensory elements, but also presented these elements interestingly, creatively, uniquely and thoughtfully. Those sensory elements were designed to communicate, persuade and impact users of the hotels whilst observing consistency and clear purpose. This study extends the hotel sector digital and experiential marketing literature. Moreover, the study’s results assist hotel service providers in understanding the importance of involving experiential aspects in their marketing. Thus, the paper relieves hotel managers for more added values especially in marketing plans. However, this study focuses exclusively on four-star hotels in Yogyakarta Region in Indonesia.
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J. Crolts et al. (2008) ‘A Survey method for identifying key drivers of guest delight’, International Journal of contemporary Hospitality management, 53 (2), pp. 492-506.
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Mkwizu, K.H. (2020) ‘Digital marketing & tourism: opportunities for Africa’, International Hospitality Review, (1), pp. 5-12.
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Parvez, S. J., Moyeenudin, H. M., Arun, S., Anandan, R., and Janahan, S. K. (2018) ‘Digital marketing in hotel industry’, International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(2.21), pp. 288-290.
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Quinlan-Cutler, S., and Carmichael, B. (2010) ‘The dimensions of customer experience. In: M. morgan, P, lugos, Ritchie (org) (Eds.). The tourism in leisure experience: consumer & managerial perspectives’, Aspects of tourism, pp. 3-26, Bristol.
Reid, Robert D. and Bojani, David C. (2018). Hospitality Marketing Management, 4th Edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Schmitt, B.H. (2000). Experiential Marketing. Deusto, Barcelona.
Scott, N., Laws, E., and Boksberger, P. (2009) ‘The Marketing of Hospitality and Leisure Experiences’, Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management, 18 (2-3), pp. 99-110.
Segittur (2014). Impacto de la innovacio’n y las nuevas technologies en los ha’bitos del Nuevo turista en Espania. Retrieved from: www.segittures/opencms/export/sites/segiturl.content/galerias/descargas/documentos/Ipacto-de-la-Imovacin-y-las-nuevas-tecnologas-en-los-hbitosdel-to-pdf.
Spies, K., Hesse, F., and Loesch, K. (1997) ‘Store atmosphere, mood and purchasing behavior’, International Journal of Research in Marketing, 14(1), pp. 1–17.
Stamboulis, Y., and Skayannis, P. (2003) ‘Innovation strategies and technology for experience based tourism’, Tourism Management, 24 (1), pp. 35-43.
Sweeney, C.J. and Wyber, F. (2002), ‘The role of cognitions and emotions in the music approach-avoidance behaviour relationship’, Journal of Services Marketing, 16 (1) pp. 51-70.
Werthner, H., and Ricci, F. (2004). E-commerce and tourism. Communications of the ACM, 47(12), pp. 101-105.
Xu, S., Kim, H.J., Liang, M. and Ryu, K. (2018) ‘Interrelationships between tourist involvement, tourist experience, and environmentally responsible behavior: a case study of Nansha Wetland Park’, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, 35 (7), pp. 856-868.
Yasmin, A., Tasneem, S. and Fatem, K. (2015) ‘Effectiveness of digital marketing in the challenging age: an empirical study’ International Journal of Management Science and Business Administration, 1 (5), pp. 69-80.
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2023-03-30
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PATRICK, Maryness; PAULO, William Msilu; SUMARWAN, Antonius.
How Digital Technology Enhances Hotel Experience? Examining Experiential Marketing of Two Four-Star Hotels in Yogyakarta.
E-Journal of Tourism, [S.l.], p. 33-45, mar. 2023.
ISSN 2407-392X.
Available at: <https://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/eot/article/view/98359>. Date accessed: 03 dec. 2024.
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