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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"destination management"”.
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Distributed leadership: lessons from destination management organisations.
… of reshaped, yet financially-constrained Destination Management Organisations (DMOs), which face challenges to deliver value to their destinations and member organisations. Leadership and its distributed dimension, namely Distributed Leadership (DL) is a recent paradigm, which is gaining …
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Destination management systems : towards a holistic effectiveness evaluation
This study aims to enhance the understanding of destination management system (DMS) effectiveness and its evaluation. Upon review of the literature, it was established that DMS effectiveness and its evaluation has not yet been researched adequately. Informed by an interpretive approach, this study …
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Performance evaluation framework for destination management organisations: managers' perspectives.
… develop a performance evaluation framework for Destination Management Organisations (DMOs). Although tourism researchers (Ritchie and Crouch 2005; Pike 2005; Bornhorst et al. 2010; Morrison 2013; Pike and Page 2014) acknowledge that the organisational performance of a DMO is a key determinant of …
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Development of a Structural Model for Tourism Destination Competitiveness from Stakeholders' Perspectives
… test a structural equation model of tourism destination competitiveness from the tourism stakeholders'perspective. The proposed hypotheses that attempted to identify the structural relationships among the five constructs in the model were examined through a series of analyses in LISREL: 1) …
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Comics-based literary trails: the case of Tintin and the Saint-Nazaire landmarks
… concludes with recommendations to potential Destination Management Organisations that may consider engaging in a literary trail project based on a comic book character or series.
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The Effects of Superstition as Destination Attractiveness on Behavioral Intention
… impact potential tourists' intention to visit a destination so that relevant organizations (e.g. destination management/marketing organizations) could better understand potential tourists' behaviors, identify a niche market encompassing those prone to superstition, and tailor the tourism products …
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Regenerative Business Practices within Queenstown Lakes District
… in line with the objectives of the district’s Destination Management Plan (DMP) and goal to become a regenerative visitor economy. The research aimed to explore practical interventions that enable businesses to transition toward more sustainable and regenerative practices, while considering the …
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Demand generators in the German outbound travel market : a lesson for Malta
… was conducted with the manager of a local destination management company (DMC). In order to include the view of a public tourism entity, the director of the Malta Tourism Authority office in Germany, was given detailed questions to discuss important topics such as marketing efforts, …
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Analysing visitors’ emotions, testing the DRAMMA model, and using reflective practice for guided walk development
… are provided. These include recommendations for Destination Management Organisations (DMOS) to collaborate with tour guides in addressing Torbay's cultural legacy. Two additional key points involve providing training for tour guides and utilising social media marketing strategies to evoke …
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An Evaluation of tourism stalkholder relationships: a case study of Agra, India.
… of stakeholder theory to the analysis of tourism destination networks. It explores the dynamics of the relationships between the tourism organisations involved using the case of Agra, India. Cities and towns become tourist destinations because of the activities of a large number of organisations …
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Imatge percebuda de Catalunya com a destinació sostenible
… de màrqueting o gestió de la destinació (DMO: Destination Management Organizations). El disseny d'experiències turístiques sostenibles basades en l'opinió del consumidor (cocreació) pot contribuir a millorar la imatge en línia i la imatge global de les destinacions. Avaluant i compartint la …
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Strategies and Challenges for Bridging Tradition and Innovation: A Case of Tourism Management in Ebian Yi Autonomous County in China
… the research calls on governments to establish Destination Management Organisations for multi-actor coordination; on enterprises to empower managers with clearer roles and greater autonomy; on communities to support integration through elder mediation; and on external managers to engage with …
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Tourism destination competitiveness, globalization, and strategic development from a development economics perspective
The dissertation aims to propose a tourism destination competitiveness model to help tourism policy makers in different country groups acknowledge relevant factors given their unique situational characteristics with regard to globalization and economic development. Studies on tourism destination …
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Literary Tourism: Linking Cultural Capital, Tourist Experiences and Perceptions of Authenticity
… satisfy the tourist’s authentic gaze. Lastly, Destination Management Organisations (DMOs) and production companies must work in partnership to determine the market for literary adaptations and film-induced literary tourism experiences.
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Theoretische Konzeption und empirische Relation eines Referenzmodells der digitalen Kooperation und vertikalen Integration von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen alpintouristischer Destinationen
… The introduction describes the challenges that destinations and their providers, many of which are small and medium-sized businesses, face. The journey to achieving digital cooperation and the vertical integration of jointly provided and customer-focused services requires new core competencies …
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An exploratory investigation into destination marketing and place marketing in Cheshire and Warrington : the need for organizational ambidexterity
… in the twentieth twenty-first century, destination marketing has become one of the principal ways that nations, regions and cities compete to attract visitors. Very many places across the world have set up destination marketing organisations to differentiate nations, regions and cities …
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Foundations for a Network Model of Destination Value Creation
… has demonstrated that a network model of destination value creation (i.e. the Destination Value System model) based on the flows of travelers within a destination can be used to estimate and predict individual attractions’ marginal contributions to total visitor expenditures. While …
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Finding ways to engage with a healthy tourism "offer": evaluating potential synergies between wellbeing, public health, and tourism at a local destination.
… and tourism communities of practice at a local destination level. In this context, the concept of wellbeing provides an example of a boundary object which can promote knowledge sharing across boundaries between communities of practice. Eudaimonic and integrated wellbeing theories offer …
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Millennials’ perception of destination attractiveness
… factors that are significant to a destination, while lesser focus is provided to capturing specific tourists’ attractiveness factors. The purpose of this study was to explore Millennials’ perception of destination attractiveness (DA) and their propensity to visit a destination. The …
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Attitudes to Online Advertising: New Formats and New Perspectives
… of a country’s image or the image of a tourist destination. The presence of people, animals and water have a positive impact on the engagement of Instagrammers, while the lack of authenticity and the constant exposure to photographs of the same country have the opposite effect. In fact, both …
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