期刊名称：Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series
电子版ISSN：2393-3127
出版年度：2016
卷号：16
期号：1
语种：English
出版社：Ovidius University Press
摘要：Brands have well-known advantages for companies, from ensuring product differentiation to the much appraised and hard to gain brand loyalty. Due to the particular features of services, service branding requires specific attention, and although it was given less consideration than product branding in the dedicated literature, during the past years a certain amount of attention was also bestowed on service branding. The highly competitive environment of hotel industry has claimed use of brands and brands have become vital to their marketing strategies. In the hotel industry, brands have become quality cues and have gained their place among the factors the purchase decision is based on. The paper is aimed at presenting several facets of branding in the hotel industry, and at briefly asserting the current state and challenges faced by the Romanian Seaside hotel industry related to branding.
