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This original body of work uses and advances leadership theories that are particularly suited to inter-organizational contexts, such as distributed and systemic leadership. It also illustrates that destination leadership needs to be treated and understood in relationship to governance...
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The research steam on tourism destination image, begun in the late 1960s, has been essentially operational in its … approach, and only occasionally strategic. Aspects relating to the image of tourism destinations still constitute a relatively … rigorously study and evaluate the image of what we understand as a tourism destination characterized by “sun and beach”. It then …
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Purpose – Tourism has become a global industry, with the destination being at the core of the tourism product. Due to … toward the tourists. Originality/value – This study emphasizes the complexity of the tourism product. Moreover, it is shown …
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Purpose – Destinations are embedded in a competitive environment, in which quality and service alone do not satisfy the customer, and are no longer useful for differentiation. Thus experiences, as a source of customer value, are gaining importance in destination management. Experiences are...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an alternative perspective on understanding the coordinating role of destination management organizations. Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) are known to have a coordinating role within a destination. Many qualitative case studies...
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Purpose – The aim of this contribution is to present the structural constraints faced by the Cypriot tourism industry … on its path to changing its product portfolio, previously dominated by the beach-tourism segment. Design …
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/methodology/approach Questionnaire data were collected from 220 senior tourism business members in Iran. Findings The results show that an individual … opportunity recognition. Because the data were limited to tourism industry, future studies need to validate these findings in … recognition ability, it is critical for tourism businesses to invest in developing and enhancing individual ability. Originality …
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‐relations between the local population and tourism, but is scarce regarding national minorities and tourism. This paper pursues a new … tourism, research on minorities and tourist activities is quite new. Therefore this research paper provides only an …
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. Design/methodology/approach – For a set of salient organizations in six tourism destinations in Austria and in Switzerland …. Originality/value – The functionalities of destination communities are of growing interest for tourism researchers. However …, tourism research has never focused on networks of interlocking directorships. By analyzing interlocking directorships in the …
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Destination 21 is a new national eco‐label for Danish tourism destinations established in 2000. It is intended to help … destinations reach sustainable tourism development by working towards a number of national and local sustainability objectives … international markets. The concept of sustainable tourism development is somewhat controversial when compared to the original …
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