Tourist Destination Management and Regional Economic Development

Dear Colleagues,

Tourism is a very important and complex activity that is essential for the economic development of many regions. The tourism product is a set of products that, in turn, are made up of goods and services. The common point of all tourism products is their organization around one or more tourist destinations, and these tourist destinations and their inhabitants are the recipients of the benefits and costs (economic, social, cultural and environmental) of the tourist activity. Therefore, the tourist destination is the basis and context of tourism, and it is essential that correct management can achieve sustainability with respect to economic, sociocultural and environmental sustainability.

Tourist destination management has a large volume of academic literature, and some lines are very prolific and relevant: the residents’ attitudes and their causes and consequences; the evolution of tourist areas over time, supporting the analysis in theories such as Butler's TALC or Doxey's Irridex; the impact on the economic and social development of the region; and challenges and risks of mature destinations and the actions necessary to redirect the supply and demand of the destination (actions with a high cost in human and financial resources). Recently, new lines of research have appeared that are related to the risk of overtourism and tourism-phobia, normally related to saturation that causes costs to be considered higher than the economic benefits. All these lines of research seek to face challenges that entail risks for tourist regions, its economic development and their inhabitants.

Potential topics for this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:

• Residents' attitudes, their causes and consequences;
• Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) and TALC application;
• Analysis of the economic and social evolution of tourist regions;
• Destination Management Organizations (DMO) and challenges of the XXI century;
• Difficulties for the management of mature destinations;
• Challenges for financing DMO actions;
• Overtourism and tourism-phobia problems;
• Crisis and resilience in tourist destinations.

Dr. José Ramón Cardona
Guest Editor

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