Marketing Geography is a fast developing branch of Economic Geography. It is concerned with the channels of distribution through which goods move from produce to consumer. Marketing geography deals with the application of the geographical principles, methods and techniques to the practical problems, methods to he marketing phenomena. Marketing is studied not only is geography but also studied in business management, sociology, economics and anthropology. Marketing geography is concerned with markets as fixed points on earth's surface, their site and situation, extent of marketing activity and movement of commodities (Saxena, 1973). The marketing function takes place at specific centers distributed in an area with the facilities of collection and distribution of goods.

An important role of service centers in rural development especially in economic and social life of the people in countries like India. Service centres provide goods and services to the surrounding region. They are the nodes in the general fabric of settlements through which overall development takes place.Service centres have central locations where the social gatherings take place. They are an outlet for various social functions. They are also centers of communication, diffusion and innovations. They are also providing ground for governmental, private specialized agencies to establish the new ideas, notion, and policies, for the development.In the present work an attempt has been made to study of service centres in Latur district. The entire work is related to the study distributional pattern and influence service area of service centres. It also includes spatial distribution of service centres in relation to physical, social and economic factors of the region.

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Contributed papers presented at National Seminar on Application of New Techniques in Geography organized by Dept. of Geography, University of Pune in the year 2001 on the occasion of its golden jubilee.