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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Regional and City Marketing

Type of study MasterFollow-up MasterBachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 118-0343/04
Abbreviation Regmark
Course title Regional and City Marketing
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Regional and Environmental Economics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Jan Sucháček, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Basic delimitation of urban and regional marketing – objectives, tasks, types and principles of city and regional marketing, specific features of territorial marketing, from traditional marketing towards its territorial modification.
2. Territorial marketing in general – characteristic features and phases of territorial marketing, financing, institutional and organisational forms.
3. Genesis of substantial directions of territorial marketing – origin and development of territorial marketing in advanced countries, from fordism towards postfordism.
4. Origin and development of territorial marketing in post-transformation economies – specific features and differences from advanced economies, application of territorial markeitng in the Czech Republic.
5. Identification of city and regional marketing milieu – inner and outer settings of cities and regions, information and analyses.
6. Searching for positioning of cities and regions in competitive milieu - positioning, segmentation and target groups.
7. Application of marketing mix – urban and reigonal product, quality of urban and regional product, prices, distribution and materiál settings, communication mix, human resources, processes and partnership.
8. Media, cities and regions – influence of national media, urban and regional images.
9. Methods and techniques of territorial marketing - methods, techniques, models and practice of territorial marketing
10. Implementation or city and reigonal marketing – strategic development of cities and regions and the role of territorial marketing, towards the complex teritorial marketing.

Literature

1. Asworth, G., Voogd, H. Selling the City: Marketing Approaches in Public Sector Urban Planning. London: Belhaven Press, 1990.
2. Kotler, P., Haider, D., Rein, I. Marketing Places. London: Free Press. 2002.

Advised literature

1. Sucháček, J. Territorial Development Reconsidered. Ostrava: VŠB-TU, 2008.