The Important Value of Branding in Tourism
Entrepreneurship
Riyono Gede Trisoko
1
, Rini Yuliarti
2
, Yulia Novita
3
, Novian Aldo
4
, Nelvia Ibrahim
5
{riyono@gmail.com}
Sekolah Tinggi Pariwisata Riau
1
, Universitas Islam Sultan Syarif Kasim
2
, Poltekes Kemenkes
Tanjungpinang, Indonesia
2
Abstract. This time the digital campaign situation seems to be a necessity for a company
or business owner brand in managing business, this is because technology has changed the
pattern of communication and behavior of business people and of course the pattern of
consumption. These circumstances give great consequences to competitive,
entrepreneurial procedures, especially in marketing and production strategies. Technology
of smartphone through social media has opened up a great space for everyone as a subject
to respond to any offer of effective, cheap, easy, and fast ways of living. Nichols (2017)
said that technology has made information so simple; far to be close, not know being know,
not famous became easily famous in personality. Markplus has been presented the term
www to the society such as whatever, wherever, and whenever; such as anything,
anywhere, and whenever can be presented right now. The environment makes all business
actors, even at a small scale require knowledge and branding skills to encourage the
absorption of production in the framework of consumer expectations, especially where the
irrational epidemic is known, so that the relationship between the production process,
distribution, marketing, consumption, so that there is no making gap generation in business
strategy.
Keywords: Information; Branding value; Customization; gap generation; connectivity;
tourism entrepreneurship.
1 Introduction
One thing that is undeniable at this time is the fact that social media raise anxiety that
netizens miss information; this situation raises behavior in the form of "backward feeling" which
gives the people need always be active in social media. This situation must be faced by
entrepreneurs in order to create a sustainable business. Therefore, all knowledge related to such
behavior is termed "connectivity” this must be concern in learning in modern and contemporary
information.
A further consequence that must be understood by an entrepreneur from this situation is the
ability to adapt to new people or netizens as a potential market that comes with new characters,
especially in tourism entrepreneurship which is now known as a new tourist attraction called
Minister of Tourism as Digital Destinations. Responding to the changes in market behavior that
needed are always marketable tips so that business continuity runs well considering the
ICON 2021, December 14, Padang, Indonesia
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DOI 10.4108/eai.14-12-2021.2318364