Tourist destination governance practice, theory and issues

The aims of this book are to contribute to the understanding of best practices in tourist destination governance and to benchmark and advance ways of theorizing on these practices. Tourism is recognized as a complicated, multi-sector activity with numerous stakeholders and with diverse and often divergent goals and objectives. Achieving cooperation, collaboration and integration among the government organizations involved in the various aspects of tourism and between government and private sector enterprises, as well as between tourism policies and community interests, are major concerns for policy makers, managers, community members and academics. Further diffi culty is due to the need for a tourist destination to deal with changing tastes, interests and concerns among its visitors, and fluctuations in market conditions due to crises and disasters. It is also widely accepted that tourism has varied and rapidly evolving forms, meaning that each destination system must be understood in its own contexts.

Từ khóa: Tourist destination, tourism policies, social economic, tourism strategy, kinh tế du lịch, chiến lược du lịch