Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes: Volume 14 Issue 1

Editorial

Teare Richard

Measuring tourism success: are we on the brink of a new paradigm?

Jorge Costa, Celeste Varum, Mónica Montenegro, João Gomes

The article aims to introduce the strategic question and demonstrate its relevance and reality. It also profiles the articles selected for the annual global trends issue and…

The ecology of sustainable tourism

Peter Tarlow

This paper questions the present state of the world's tourism industry and advocates the need for an approach where quality assumes greater importance than quantity.

Measuring tourism success: alternative considerations

Richard Butler

The study aims to explore the possibility of redefining success in tourism and measuring such a phenomenon by considering alternatives to economic factors, and to identify the…

Sustainability as a success factor for tourism destinations: a systematic literature review

Margarida Custódio Santos, Célia Veiga, José António C. Santos, Paulo Águas

This study sought to assess the extent to which tourism research has considered sustainability as a success factor for tourism destinations. It also aims to identify the relevance…

Towards a tourism industry turnaround: the need for a new metric of social success

Alfonso Vargas-Sanchez

This review highlights the need for a tourism industry turnaround combining changes in its governance and in its social success metric.

Destination management in a post-covid environment

Sérgio Guerreiro

This paper seeks to reflect on the impacts of the pandemic on the management of tourist destinations, discussing the role of destination-management organizations in the tourism…

Including residents in the rebranding of tourist destinations to achieve sustainable development goals

John Bowen, Sandra Sotomayor

This paper aims to indicate the importance of including residents in the rebranding of a destination.

Sustainability as a measure of tourism success: the Portuguese Promotional Tourism Boards' view

Jorge Costa, Mónica Montenegro, João Gomes

The study explores the concept of sustainability as a measure of tourism success from the perspectives of the Portuguese Promotional Tourism Boards.

Restart tourism | build the future

Rita Marques

This viewpoint aims to explore the question: How can we restart and monitor the path towards the tourism of the future?

Measuring tourism success: how European National Tourism Organisations are shifting the paradigm

Luís Araújo

The paper analyses the dramatic global slowdown of tourism caused by the pandemic and how it has provided an exceptional opportunity for the tourism sector to reassess both its…

Towards a holistic approach for measuring tourism success: contribution to a new paradigm

Jorge Costa, Celeste Varum, Mónica Montenegro, João Gomes

The purpose of this article is to critically review the contributions made by the global trends issue participants and to present the lines of action in the form of a proposal for…