Professional: Talking about souvenirs
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Starting a Gift Store: what Canadian business services advice to novices?
To succeed, you need a personal touch with customers, a keen sense of what they want and a flair for displaying merchandise. You should have skills in managing, selling, accounting, purchasing and advertising. Before starting your own store, gain experience by working in a gift store and taking related training and courses. The industry is very competitive - gift stores have the third highest failure rate among retail outlets...
Australian home delivers for Japanese tourists
Australian Airlines is to offer a new inflight product, “Home Delivery” for Japanese customers on flights to and from Australia.
Home Delivery allows passengers who live in Japan to purchase Australian souvenirs and gifts during the flight and have the items delivered to their work or home address...
Food as tourist merchandise
Tourists like to shop. There is a great deal of data on tourist expenditures on hotels, transportation and other activities dedicated to serving tourists. But information is surprisingly scarce on how much tourists spend at retail outlets, much less what products they buy and their motivations for purchase. There is evidence that where attractive shopping opportunities exist, tourist purchases can be considerable. A study in Wisconsin found that "shopping" accounted for 31 percent of total touri...
FOLK-ART as tourist atraction in Hungary
Folklore art is a unique element of the Hungarian tourist product. The originality and the variety of different art forms provide a special experience for the tourists and a powerful promotional tool for national marketing.
DEMAND AND SUPPLY OF FOLK ART OBJECTS
Handicraft folklore products are often sold on the spot where they are manufactured (in the workshop, in the settlement), but the geographically concentrated nature of tourist demand in Hungary would make this kind of distribution u...