Tourism Review: Volume 69 Issue 3

Destination leadership: leadership for territorial development

Metin Kozak, Michael Volgger, Harald Pechlaner

This paper aims to provide an original body of work that presents and discusses the theory that destination leadership is about proactively shaping the future development of…

Identification of leadership in emerging tourist destinations

Piotr Zmys̀lony

The paper aims to propose a method of identifying and evaluating leadership potential of stakeholders in emerging tourist destinations and to verify this method in three Polish…

Stakeholder power and engagement in an English seaside context: implications for destination leadership

Victoria Kennedy, Marcjanna M. Augustyn

The purpose of this paper is to examine stakeholder power and engagement within an increasingly competitive English seaside resort setting. It aims to adopt a structuralist and…

Local stakeholders’ views about destination management: who are leading tourism development?

Anja Tuohino, Henna Konu

The purpose of the paper is to study how the local stakeholders of three different tourism destinations consider who is responsible for the development of a tourism destination…

Rural tourism opportunities: strategies and requirements for destination leadership in peripheral areas

Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider, Verena Melzer, Alexandra Jiricka

This paper aims to address lack in destination leadership and to propose a new typology of approaches. Frequently, rural tourism is suggested as a remedy that should enhance the…

The importance of being local: prioritizing knowledge in recruitment for destination development

Kajsa G. Åberg

The paper aims to illuminate the discrepancy between the need for knowledge as found in prior research and the requirements formulated by those taking part in destination…