Tourism Product like ALL Other Products is Intangible

Tourism Product is said to be Intangible. It is a bundle of needs and wants.

Distinguishing between companies according to whether they market services or goods has only limited utility. A more useful way to make the same distinction is to change the words we use. Instead of speaking of services and goods, we should speak of intangibles and tangibles. Everybody sells intangibles in the marketplace, no matter what is produced in the factory.

The intangibility of All Products

Intangible products—travel, freight forwarding, insurance, repair, consulting, computer software, investment banking, brokerage, education, health care, accounting—can seldom be tried out, inspected, or tested in advance. Prospective buyers are generally forced to depend on surrogates to assess what they’re likely to get.

Tangible products differ in that they can usually, or to some degree, be directly experienced—seen, touched, smelled, or tasted, as well as tested. Often this can be done in advance of buying. You can test-drive a car, smell the perfume, work the numerical controls of a milling machine, inspect the seller’s steam-generating installation, pretest an extruding machine.

In practice, though, even the most tangible of products can’t be reliably tested or experienced in advance. To inspect a vendor’s steam-generating plant or computer installation in advance at another location and to have thoroughly studied detailed proposals and designs are not enough. A great deal more is involved than product features and physical installation alone.

Importance of Impressions

Common sense tells us, and research confirms, that people use appearances to make judgments about realities. It matters little whether the products are high priced or low priced, whether they are technically complex or simple, whether the buyers are supremely sophisticated in the technology of what’s being considered or just plain ignorant, or whether they buy for themselves or for their employers. Everybody always depends to some extent on both appearances and external impressions.

Source(s):

Horvard Business Review

https://hbr.org/1981/05/marketing-intangible-products-and-product-intangibles

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Accessibility and Inclusion in Cities

 

The same urban scenario may represent two very different things depending on who is walking through it. A passerby without mobility problems will hardly notice the obstacles: he will go up and down stairs, save curbs and surround obstructions without diverting their attention. By contrast, those with disabilities face, in the same setting, a tortuous odyssey that in many cases it is impossible to overcome…….

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How to Improve Mental Wellbeing in Pandemic

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is impacting all our lives, and the usual advice might not quite apply. We know that some ideas for looking after yourself may feel unrealistic right now. And some treatment and support options will be harder to access or may be unavailable for a while.

Mental wellbeing describes your mental state – how you are feeling and how well you can cope with day-to-day life.

Our mental wellbeing is dynamic. It can change from moment to moment, day to day, month to month or year to year.

If you have good mental wellbeing you are able to:

  • feel relatively confident in yourself and have positive self-esteem
  • feel and express a range of emotions
  • build and maintain good relationships with others
  • feel engaged with the world around you
  • live and work productively
  • cope with the stresses of daily life
  • adapt and manage in times of change and uncertainty

These are some ideas to stay mentally well and develop your ability to cope with the up and downs of life:

  • Think about what is affecting your wellbeing
  • Build positive relationships
  • Take time for yourself
  • Look after your mental health
  • Look after your physical health
  • Ask for help if you need it

Have a Goal

Having a goal worth chasing helps in maintaining your mental well being.

Spread What You Know

  • Write a Book
  • Write a Manual

Help Less Fortunate

Help Less fortunate people. It helps to destress you.

 

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Consistently Happy

Orlando's avatarOrlando Espinosa

People produce their best when they’re happy. Being happy really does change everything. My goal in life is to be happy. Genuinely, intensely and consistently happy!

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