Identyfikacja segmentów rynku turystycznego miasta – założenia koncepcyjne
Identification of Segments of the Urban Tourist Market – Conceptual Assumptions

Summary/Abstract: Asubject of considerations is the issue of identification of segments of the urban tourist market. The article is of the conceptual nature. In its first part, the author interpreted the term ‘market segmentation’. For this purpose, she used achievements of the marketing literature characterising this process in relation to enterprises. In the next part, she specified the key issues connected with identification of segments of the urban tourist market. Moreover, she indicated the selected methods allowing identification of the market segments (inter alia, the method of grouping, feature hierarchy analysis). She paid attention to the ways of urban tourist market measuring, which allows carrying out the correct market segmentation and, at the same time, practically efficient. Finally, the author presented the procedures of urban tourist market segmentation. The proposed procedures correspond to the concepts used in the case of enterprises as well as they take into consideration the specificity of urban tourist market.

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