This book examines the political order and the issues, processes and approaches in applying governance insights to tourist destinations. The book consists of 16

As competition is increasingly taking place on a global scale, tourist destinations must act more like businesses than they have in the past. Development in the

This book provides a wide-ranging overview of the current state of tourist destination management and presents important recent research in the field. Contempor

This book collected studies focused on the management of tourist destinations. Destinations are complex and adaptive systems, where the different elements that

The role of governance has only recently begun to be researched and discussed in order to better understand tourism policy making and planning, and tourism deve