Learning Outcomes
Strategic Marketing and New Technologies in Sport, Leisure and Sports Tourism is the scientific approach to the dynamic and rapidly evolving field of digital technology that has a profound impact on modern sports and leisure organizations and businesses. This course introduces students to the fundamentals and best practices in strategic digital sports marketing, focusing on key topics, emerging topics, and practical techniques. It demonstrates how digital marketing works in the real world, takes an in-depth look at the new international digital landscape in sport and explains how implementing successful digital marketing strategies is a key element in the upgrading and effectiveness of sport, leisure and tourism organizations. During the course students have the opportunity to put the basic principles and theories into practice by being asked to create different digital marketing plans for a sports organization.
• Keywords to search on the internet: digital marketing, reputation management, social media marketing, mobile marketing, internet marketing
At the end of the course students should be able to:
• Know the utility and function of strategic marketing and new technologies in sport, recreation and sports tourism.
• Understand the characteristics of the sports digital market as well as the digital consumers of sports.
• They analyze the current problem of the digital consumer behavior of the sports market.
• Synthesize information from the external and internal environment of the digital market making innovative proposals.
• Apply the theories acquired in creating specialized digital marketing plans by coordinating the individual elements of the marketing mix.
• Evaluate the success and effectiveness of a digital marketing plan.
Course Content (Syllabus)
1. Digital economy and environment
2. Digital Marketing Tools
3. Digital Marketing Strategy
4. Sports digital marketing business models
5. The digital customer. Customer journey map
6 Design and development of online presence of sports organizations (Web site development). Search engines (SEO).
7. Content Marketing. Display in Digital Media Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
8 Sports marketing social network platforms and applications. Facebook campaigns
9. Digital Marketing Analytics
10. Mobile marketing, Apps, E-mail marketing
11. E-commerce
12. E-shop
13. Workshop Presentations