Tourist branding of Russian regions. Far East

The article is devoted to the analysis of tourist branding of macroregions of Russia. Using the material of open Internet sources, it examines the possibilities and limitations of branding individual historical and geographical macroregions of Russia, with the focus on the Far East. When analyzing b...

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Main Author: Mikhail Yu. Timofeev
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Language:English
Published: Ekaterinburg Academy of Contemporary Art 2024-11-01
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Online Access:https://managing-culture.eaca.ru/archive/2024/3/3
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description The article is devoted to the analysis of tourist branding of macroregions of Russia. Using the material of open Internet sources, it examines the possibilities and limitations of branding individual historical and geographical macroregions of Russia, with the focus on the Far East. When analyzing branding practices, the systematic approach of A. I. Uyomov and I. V. Dmitrevskaya was used, based on which the concept of territorial branding is implemented within the framework of a variable structure dependent on local resources on a certain local substrate. The structure is the model used by brand managers for selecting elements and building connections between them. As a structural model, we used 9 bases identified by E. P. Marmilova and I. A. Sizova. In general, the essence of geobranding is quite simple - to make a certain territory recognizable beyond its borders to attract the attention of various target audiences in order to obtain various benefits. However, the discrepancy between the interpretations of the concept of a territorial brand in theory and practice and the different options for its definition required clarification of our approach. Therefore, as a working definition, we used the definition borrowed from I. S. Vazhenina, believing that a geobrand is a system of values associated with the uniqueness of a region that is widely known and causes constant demand from consumers. In Russia, several large historically established cultural and geographical regions can be distinguished. At the same time, almost everywhere they are divided into several subregions that are self-sufficient from the standpoint of branding. Since it is impossible to consider all attempts to develop brands for geographic regions of Russia within the framework of one article, we limited ourselves to an analysis of the practices of the Far East. We concluded that branding of macroterritories is difficult to implement due to the possibility of managing such a brand only from the federal center. Even the creation of the interregional tourism project «Eastern Ring of Russia» took more than ten years. The successful experience of the PressPass agency, which created several modern guidebooks, including “The Far East” and “The Arctic,” was discovered.
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spelling doaj-art-d27740ca7f0049a789f41b31f3d53d492025-08-20T02:25:26ZengEkaterinburg Academy of Contemporary ArtУправление культурой2949-074X2024-11-0133233110.70202/2949-074X-2024-3-3-23-3188Tourist branding of Russian regions. Far EastMikhail Yu. Timofeev0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7914-1567Ivanovo State UniversityThe article is devoted to the analysis of tourist branding of macroregions of Russia. Using the material of open Internet sources, it examines the possibilities and limitations of branding individual historical and geographical macroregions of Russia, with the focus on the Far East. When analyzing branding practices, the systematic approach of A. I. Uyomov and I. V. Dmitrevskaya was used, based on which the concept of territorial branding is implemented within the framework of a variable structure dependent on local resources on a certain local substrate. The structure is the model used by brand managers for selecting elements and building connections between them. As a structural model, we used 9 bases identified by E. P. Marmilova and I. A. Sizova. In general, the essence of geobranding is quite simple - to make a certain territory recognizable beyond its borders to attract the attention of various target audiences in order to obtain various benefits. However, the discrepancy between the interpretations of the concept of a territorial brand in theory and practice and the different options for its definition required clarification of our approach. Therefore, as a working definition, we used the definition borrowed from I. S. Vazhenina, believing that a geobrand is a system of values associated with the uniqueness of a region that is widely known and causes constant demand from consumers. In Russia, several large historically established cultural and geographical regions can be distinguished. At the same time, almost everywhere they are divided into several subregions that are self-sufficient from the standpoint of branding. Since it is impossible to consider all attempts to develop brands for geographic regions of Russia within the framework of one article, we limited ourselves to an analysis of the practices of the Far East. We concluded that branding of macroterritories is difficult to implement due to the possibility of managing such a brand only from the federal center. Even the creation of the interregional tourism project «Eastern Ring of Russia» took more than ten years. The successful experience of the PressPass agency, which created several modern guidebooks, including “The Far East” and “The Arctic,” was discovered.https://managing-culture.eaca.ru/archive/2024/3/3geo-cultural area brandingimage resourcesimage of the territorytourismfar east
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Tourist branding of Russian regions. Far East
Управление культурой
geo-cultural area branding
image resources
image of the territory
tourism
far east
title Tourist branding of Russian regions. Far East
title_full Tourist branding of Russian regions. Far East
title_fullStr Tourist branding of Russian regions. Far East
title_full_unstemmed Tourist branding of Russian regions. Far East
title_short Tourist branding of Russian regions. Far East
title_sort tourist branding of russian regions far east
topic geo-cultural area branding
image resources
image of the territory
tourism
far east
url https://managing-culture.eaca.ru/archive/2024/3/3
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