Destination Management Organisations and their shift to sustainable tourism development
| Publicatietype: | Artikel |
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| Tijdschrift: | European Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Recreation |
| Deel: | Vol 4 |
| Nummer: | Issue 2 |
| Jaar: | 2013 |
| Maand: | Juni |
| Pagina's: | pp. 27-47 |
| Samenvatting: | Competition between tourism destinations on national, regional and local lev- els continues to intensify due to the pressure of globalization (Friedman, 2006). Accordingly, destination Management Organizations (dMOs) have to constantly reevaluate and re-engineer existing tourism offers to reposition themselves in a highly competitive tourism market. At the same time, tourism development pressures destination areas through increased resource consumption and, land fragmentation while policy measures to promote more sustainable tourism are progressing only slowly due to local resistance. Therefore, destinations are one of the most difficult entities to manage because of diverse, often conflicting interests of dif- ferent stakeholder groups (Carmin et al., 2003). Consequently, finding the right balance be- tween the economic development of tourism destinations, the conservation of their resources and the well-being of the local population has become a challenging task for many dMOs (Notarstefano, 2008). The aim of this paper is to present the results of exploratory research conducted in 2011 in seven European countries among 72 managers of destination Manage- ment Organizations (dMOs). The research objective was to evaluate the dMOs’ efforts and their role in the set-up and implementation of sustainable tourism principles in the manage- ment of tourist destinations by means of a quantitative and qualitative analysis. |
| Gebruikersvelden: | ITO |
| Trefwoorden: | destination management organization (dMO), destination marketing & strategy planning, long-term competitiveness, new demand of 21st century, sustainable tourism development |
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| Toegevoegd door: | [] |
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