Size and regional varieties of communal marketing in the Czech Republic

Abstract

Territorial marketing became one of the most useful devices of communal managements. Naturally, communities form complex and entirely specific entities and that is why numerous peculiar features are concomitant to territorial marketing. The purpose of this article is to show the state of municipal marketing and to monitor this type of marketing within contemporary communal practice in the Czech Republic. Larger communities turned out to be more fastidious and prefer to bait primarily people with university education while their smaller peers are thankful for any new inhabitants. Larger communities also prefer foreign investors and regard journalists in the framework of relationship marketing more. Apart from size peculiarities there appeared also numerous regional specifics of communal marketing in the country, which are in consonance with genuine features of these territories.