CHAPER #1: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF TOURIST DESTINATION MANAGEMENT
1.1 TOURIST DESTINATION MANAGEMENT
1.1.1 Defining a Tourist Destination
The term destination comes from the Latin and means "designation". Integrated into the tourist vocabulary, the destination became a synonym for the goal of a journey although the function of the term originally consisted exclusively of aircraft and ship journeys (Schröder, 1998). Only since the mid-1990s has the term gained new meaning.
Tourism is an economic department that influences the development of a nation as a whole. Sustainable tourism is a form of tourism which makes use of current and present resources of a destination without limiting or negatively influencing what is available to the next generation. …show more content…
Ritchie & Crouch’s model for destination competitiveness separates the destination infrastructure from the destination establishment, in which destination infrastructure incorporates the management of sewer, water, canalization and other necessary amenities to support concentrated populations and destination establishment focuses more on the specific tourism products such as attractions, restaurants, information centers and activity suppliers. Not that a destination would experience any leisure tourism if it did not have solid infrastructure around especially hygiene management, but they remain a separate department of governmental planning not affiliated with destination management in tourism. Leiper (1995), Martini (2001) and Pechlaner (2000), who take a demand perspective see a destination as a grouping of products, services, natural and artificial attractions that are capable of attracting tourists, however arguing that geographical location is not a defining factor of a destination, opposing Tamma (2002) and Brunetti’s (2002) arguments that a destination is a supply chain accommodating specific tourism needs in a …show more content…
With destinations competing with one another worldwide it is safe to assume that tourism is on the brink of big change. For DMOs this change means that the role of destination management takes the foreground from destination marketing. This way DMOs become destination developers where their direct influence on the destinations operations and availabilities raises the value over competing destinations. Historically the purpose of a DMO was to market the destination and man authors still see the core function of the DMO as such (Dore & Crouch, 2003). However recent shifts clearly show the growing responsibilities attached to the operation of a DMO that far exceed marketing activities for the successful growth of a
1.1 TOURIST DESTINATION MANAGEMENT
1.1.1 Defining a Tourist Destination
The term destination comes from the Latin and means "designation". Integrated into the tourist vocabulary, the destination became a synonym for the goal of a journey although the function of the term originally consisted exclusively of aircraft and ship journeys (Schröder, 1998). Only since the mid-1990s has the term gained new meaning.
Tourism is an economic department that influences the development of a nation as a whole. Sustainable tourism is a form of tourism which makes use of current and present resources of a destination without limiting or negatively influencing what is available to the next generation. …show more content…
Ritchie & Crouch’s model for destination competitiveness separates the destination infrastructure from the destination establishment, in which destination infrastructure incorporates the management of sewer, water, canalization and other necessary amenities to support concentrated populations and destination establishment focuses more on the specific tourism products such as attractions, restaurants, information centers and activity suppliers. Not that a destination would experience any leisure tourism if it did not have solid infrastructure around especially hygiene management, but they remain a separate department of governmental planning not affiliated with destination management in tourism. Leiper (1995), Martini (2001) and Pechlaner (2000), who take a demand perspective see a destination as a grouping of products, services, natural and artificial attractions that are capable of attracting tourists, however arguing that geographical location is not a defining factor of a destination, opposing Tamma (2002) and Brunetti’s (2002) arguments that a destination is a supply chain accommodating specific tourism needs in a …show more content…
With destinations competing with one another worldwide it is safe to assume that tourism is on the brink of big change. For DMOs this change means that the role of destination management takes the foreground from destination marketing. This way DMOs become destination developers where their direct influence on the destinations operations and availabilities raises the value over competing destinations. Historically the purpose of a DMO was to market the destination and man authors still see the core function of the DMO as such (Dore & Crouch, 2003). However recent shifts clearly show the growing responsibilities attached to the operation of a DMO that far exceed marketing activities for the successful growth of a