Beyond a 3S Approach to Marketing Island Nations? Destination Marketing and Experiences from Timor-Leste
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2018
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University of Hawai‘i Press
Center for Pacific Islands Studies
Center for Pacific Islands Studies
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When marketing an island destination for tourism, ethical and moral issues must be considered, particularly given that the way in which a nation is promoted can have a profound impact on its residents and the type of tourism and tourists it attracts. In this article, I examine this challenge as it is faced by Timor-Leste, a young island nation attempting to grow its tourism sector. I investigate the possibility of developing a marketing campaign that avoids the commodification of paradise and, instead of adopting a “3S” (sun, sea, and sand) approach to marketing, begins from a “sense of place” as understood by local residents, through analyzing their desired representations of paradise, culture, people, and personality. The article concludes with describing a marketing campaign developed in collaboration with tourism stakeholders in Timor-Leste that demonstrates the potential for an Indigenous stakeholder-led approach to marketing an island nation.
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tourism, Timor-Leste, ethical marketing, marketing island nations, paradise, Indigenous tourism, Oceania -- Periodicals
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Currie, S. 2018. Beyond a 3S Approach to Marketing Island Nations? Destination Marketing and Experiences from Timor-Leste. The Contemporary Pacific 30 (2): 438–459.
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22 pages
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