Devising scientific and methodological tools to strengthen the economic security of a region through the improvement of technologies for marketing support of tourism

• Main Authors: Vadym Ratynskyi, Nataliia Tymoshyk, Roman Sherstiuk, Olena Dudkina, Igor Dunayev, Iryna Petrovska, Olena Mital, Oleksandr Nosyriev
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: PC Technology Center 2021-08-01
• Series: Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies
• Subjects: economic security; tourism business; marketing strategy; information and communication technologies; big data; business analytics
• Online Access: http://journals.uran.ua/eejet/article/view/238397

The concept of marketing support for strengthening the economic security of a region by intensifying tourist business was developed. It was established that the economic security of a region is the result of the influence of a number of processes of different nature and degrees of influence. The safety assessment depends on its purpose and groups of partial indicators that provide a comprehensive assessment. The result of the evaluation procedure should be a grounded conclusion on one of the possible states: economic security, economic danger, economic risk, and economic threat. The tourism sector, influencing the level of security of a region through the generation of additional financial and related flows, requires clarification of the content of scientific and methodological approaches to management. It is proposed to separate administrative methods and market mechanisms as complementing each other. At the level of separate tourist enterprises and their associations, it is advisable to implement marketing strategies for traditional expansion of the market, product, and innovative updating of the portfolio of tourist products. The main tools and technologies for achieving set goals are digital information and communication technologies. Their application is associated with the use of the method for economic and mathematical modeling, as well as SWOT analysis technology and the use of a special BITOUR platform. The use of the proposed theoretical and methodical proposals will make it possible to assess the economic security of a region in terms of its possible condition. It will also be useful in the development of strategic and tactical plans for regulating tourism business in the system of ensuring the economic development of a region.