1003MKT Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Iceberg, Servicescape, Germanwings
Marketing Week 7 Lecture Notes
Services Marketing
Importance of services
• Services account for 70-80% of GDP in most advanced economies
• Services cover a very broad array of industries
• Opportunities growing because of demographic and sociocultural changes, internet
and I.T.
Changing importance of industry divisions
Services
• Activities, performances, or experiences that involve neither an exchange of tangible
goods, nor a transfer of title
• Services cannot be easily displayed, compare, or communicated
• Therefore, far greater pereied risk i akig a purhase deisio
• Goods vs. Services: a continuum of in/tangibility
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