As the fastest-growing sectors of the current global economy, both hospitality and healthcare services sector offer tremendous growth opportunities for incumbents and entrepreneurial opportunities for new entrants. To flourish on these opportunities, one must first understand each industry's unique characteristics. This course is designed to help those who are interested in career advancement opportunities in these industries or who want to be inspired by these industries to better equip themselves with enlightened and creative management capabilities.
International Hospitality & Healthcare Services Marketing
International Hospitality & Healthcare Services Marketing
This course is part of International Marketing & Cross Industry Growth Specialization
Instructor: Sunmee Choi
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There are 3 modules in this course
Service businesses have unique aspects that create both opportunities and challenges in successfully managing them. Explaining what they are and how they have been addressed are a key to successfully marketing a service business. In this module, learners will be introduced to those unique characteristics of service businesses. People who have successfully completed this module will (1) Classify the unique characteristics of service businesses and realize why service businesses require special management approaches and capabilities, (2) Demonstrate the ability to better manage the role of customers to gain desirable business outcomes, (3) Develop capabilities to better market products than are intangible, and (4) Improve customer expectations and perceptions.
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7 videos2 assignments1 discussion prompt
Diverse businesses in the hospitality industry share some common characteristics. Unique marketing approaches have been developed to leverage these characteristics. In this module, learners will be introduced to one of those approaches called 'Variable Pricing.' People who have successfully completed this module will (1) Explain the unique characteristics of the hospitality industry, particularly in balancing supply and demand and (2) Demonstrate the ability to manage demand and pricing in order to better balance supply and demand and as a result maximize revenue from the hospitality industry.
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5 videos1 reading2 assignments1 discussion prompt
The healthcare industry is fast growing and rapidly evolving at the same time. So is its marketing approach. In this module, learners will be introduced to the recently emerging healthcare marketing concept of "Patient Experience Management" and will a few cases of successful patient experience management. People who have successfully completed this module will (1) Explain the unique characteristics of the healthcare industry and how this industry is evolving into the experience business, (2) Develop capabilities to better manage human interactions and facility to enhance the quality of customer experience, and (3) Gain insights on service innovation from specific healthcare innovation cases.
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Reviewed on Jun 1, 2020
Decent course, I preferred the hospitality section compared to the healthcare section, as some of the videos in the latter were a little short!
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Madam Choi is amazing teacher. She explained everything so smoothly that I really loved it.
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Reviewed on Jun 18, 2020
It's a great course with helpful fundamental knowledge. The lecture, presentation are designed friendly, it's easy for me to follow up the lesson and understand all given information.
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