Destination Resilience and Innovation for Advanced Sustainable Tourism Management

Dear Colleagues,

In recent decades, the tourism sector has faced numerous disruptions, including natural disasters, health crises, and socio-political challenges, underscoring the critical need for destination resilience and innovative management practices. Destination resilience emphasizes a destination's ability to adapt to external disturbances, as well as learn from and reorganize after disasters and crises. It is crucial to focus on developing both planned resilience—preparing in advance for unexpected events such as crises, disasters, and security threats—as well as adaptive resilience, which concerns post-event recovery. Both require leadership, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and robust internal and external communication, with these laying the foundation for sustainable development.

This Special Issue, titled “Destination Resilience and Innovation for Advanced Sustainable Tourism Management,” aims to explore comprehensive and multidisciplinary approaches that leverage innovation to enhance the resilience and sustainable development of tourism destinations. It invites contributions that examine the resilience of destinations with varied structures and resources, including city destinations, rural areas, heritage sites, and small islands. We encourage submissions that address resilience at various levels—micro (e.g., tourists, local communities), meso (e.g., destination management organizations, business operators, supply chain management), and macro (e.g., socio-ecological systems)—in order to illuminate the dynamic interplay among these scales.

We welcome submissions employing diverse approaches, such as empirical research, case studies, conceptual analysis, critical analysis, meta-analysis, big-data analysis, text mining, bibliometric analysis, and exploratory content analysis, with the ultimate aim of identifying factors contributing to destination resilience and innovation. Furthermore, as innovative practices and technologies play a pivotal role in enhancing destination resilience, solutions such as automation through robotics, mobile applications for health and safety monitoring, artificial intelligence, and big data for predictive analytics are welcome. These advancements are instrumental in developing absorptive, innovative, and adaptive capabilities essential for tackling long-term challenges such as over-tourism and climate change.

To conclude, this Special Issue seeks to catalyze cross-disciplinary dialogue and inspire a diverse range of contributions that not only enhance destination attractiveness and competitiveness but also prioritize environmental and social justice. In doing so, we aim to build a comprehensive understanding of how education, inclusivity, and innovation can drive the agenda of sustainable tourism forward. Encouraging a holistic view, we invite studies that offer fresh insights into policies, strategies, and practices that are vital for fostering resilient, innovative, and sustainable tourism ecosystems.

Dr. Shuyue Huang
Dr. Dagnachew Leta Senbeto
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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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. Tourism and Hospitality is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly 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 1200 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.

• Destination Resilience Policy and Planning
• Sustainable Tourism Management
• Technology and Innovation in Tourism
• Smart Tourism Destinations
• Social Equity and Inclusion in Tourism
• Tourism Supply Chain Sustainability
• Crisis Management and Risk Reduction
• Stakeholder Collaboration in Tourism
• Climate Change Adaptation for Tourism
• Education and Capacity Building in Sustainable Tourism