Master of Arts in Tourism Destination Management – Breda University of Applied Sciences

What are future destinations if the exhausted ones on earth cannot meet the tourists’ need of their constant search for novelty anymore?

Consumer trends in tourism develop in many directions, one of them is based on the constant search for novelty and something more extreme. On 11th October 2009, Guy Laliberté, the seventh space tourist, returned to earth and this raises the question again if the final frontier for tourists is ultimately space. This article will […]

Destination management organisations – the scapegoats for every unsuccessful tourism destination

By Kim|2009-10-04T09:09:56+00:00October 4th, 2009|ICT and tourism destination development, Regional developments, Tourism destination strategies|1 Comment

Tom Bornhorst, J.R. Brent Ritchie and Lorn Sheehan lately interviewed stakeholders from Canada regarding their perception of a successful destination and a successful destination management organisation (DMO). Goal of the research was to find out whether there is a relationship between the two. Although limited to one country, the data allows a representative view […]