A marketing research tool for destination marketing organizations' logo design

The literature widely acknowledges visual communication in the form of a logo as a potential marketing tool for attracting visitors. Focusing exclusively on logos, this study uses the Haitian Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) logo as a case study to explain how the choice of colors of a logo can benefit from market research methods. In essence, the study develops an analytical framework and contributes to the body of meta-literature in tourism marketing research. The results of the research affect current marketing practices in tourism, because firms seemingly overlook some important elements when developing a new logo. This situation is the case of the Haitian DMO and possibly other DMOs in the world. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.