Advances in Marketing and Managing Tourism Destinations

Dear Colleagues,

Destination management and marketing have been evolving and professionalizing steadily over the past 25-plus years. This Special Issue of Sustainability aims to publish high quality research on recent and expected advances in destination management and marketing within the context of sustainable development. Works that reflect the situation during and after the COVID-19 pandemic will be given a priority.

Manuscripts addressing the following and related topics and themes are invited:

• Recent evolution of destination management and marketing
• The impacts of COVID-19 on destination management and marketing
• Crisis management within destination management
• Leadership and destination management and marketing
• The intersections of destination management and sustainable tourism
• Responsible tourism/travel and destination management
• Destination management planning and strategy
• Visitor management by destinations
• Resident quality of life and destination management
• The role of destination marketing within destination management
• Recent advances in destination management and marketing
• Social media and destination management and marketing
• Influences of smart tourism on destination management and marketing
• Artificial intelligence applications in destination management and marketing
• Traditional vs. new media in destination marketing
• Community resident involvement in destination management and marketing
• Tourism product development and destination management
• Community based tourism (CBT) and destination management
• Festivals and events in destination management and marketing
• Partnership, cooperation, and collaboration in destination management and marketing
• Research for destination management and marketing
• Consumer behavior and destination marketing
• Creativity and innovation in destination management and marketing
• Domestic vs. international tourism marketing
• City destination management
• Business tourism advances
• Accessible tourism and destination management
• Destination management organizations and their roles
• Funding for destination management and marketing
• The governance of destination management and marketing
• Destination management and performance measurement
• The future for destination management and marketing

Please contact Guest Editor directly with questions about potential topics and themes.

Prof. Dr. Alastair M. Morrison
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.