What do many businesses plan to attract customers and encourage them to visit their facilities?

Special events

88. D Special events. Businesses often plan a variety of special events to attract customers and encourage them to visit the store. Special events might include special sales, grand openings, celebrity visits, product demonstrations, etc. Businesses usually try to plan special events that will appeal to the target market. Trade shows are events where businesses display and/or demonstrate their products to build sales leads and interest. Press kits are developed by businesses for the media. Market trips involve retail buyers visiting market centers to buy merchandise for their stores. SOURCE: PR:360 SOURCE: Farese, L.S., Kimbrell, G., & Woloszyk, C.A. (2009). Marketing essentials (pp. 370, 554-555). New York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.