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Destination resilience : challenges and opportunities for destination management and governance / edited by Elisa Innerhofer, Martin Fontanari and Harald Pechlaner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and MobilityPublisher: London : Routledge, 2018Description: 1 online resource (xv, 158 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780203701904
  • 9781351331913
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 910.68 D476
LOC classification:
  • G155.A1 D47 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
part, I Definition and conceptual framework -- chapter 1 Linking destinations and resilience - challenges and perspectives / Harald Pechlaner Elisa Innerhofer -- chapter 2 Risk- and resilience-awareness. An empirical analysis of the basic supply in regions and on the demand side / Martin Fontanari Dirk Kredinger -- chapter 3 Multidisciplinary approaches to resilience in tourism destination studies -- A conceptual framework / Anna Scuttari Philipp Corradini -- part, II Destination management and governance towards resilience -- chapter 4 From resilience thinking to resilience practice - perspectives on destination development / Daniel Zacher -- chapter 5 Resilient tourism destinations? Governance implications of bringing theories of resilience and adaptive capacity to tourism practice / Stefan Hartman -- chapter 6 Cooperative approaches between health- and agro-tourism stakeholders in increasing rural destination resilience in Belarus / Siarhei Danskikh Anastasia Traskevich -- chapter 7 Integrated destination governance -- An evolutionary approach to open innovation and stakeholder engagement for resilient tourism destinations / Lauren Uğur -- chapter 8 Qualities and fields of action of destination resilience -- An indicator analysis process / Andreas Koler Stefan Ortner Mike Peters -- chapter 9 Business continuity management in the destination - proactive recognition, assessment and managing of disruptions / Germann Jossé Knut Scherhag -- part, III Business aspects and strategies to increase resilience -- chapter 10 Regional resilience - the special case of "money" / Georg Hechenberger -- chapter 11 Destination resilience and the sharing economy -- An exploration of the case of Airbnb / Michael Volgger Christof Pforr Dirk Reiser -- chapter 12 Hotel resilient - plan ahead, stay ahead. Promoting the business case for disaster and climate resilience in the tourism sector / Mareike Bentfeld Stephan Huppertz Bijan Khazai Trevor Girard -- chapter 13 How to make destinations resilient - from theory to practical application / Bernd Schabbing -- chapter 14 Agro-tourism in Belarus -- Resilience in development as a success factor / Georgi Gribov Veronika Rakitskaja -- chapter 15 The market of the tour operators in Germany within a disruptive environment -- Implications for the management and the resilient orientation of destinations / Martin Fontanari Timm Ewald.
Summary: "The challenge of destination management is to track and understand trends on different levels, to consider socio-economic developments and to respond proactively by addressing the paradigms of sustainability and resilience.By examining tourism and travel trends in a wide range of regions, this book offers new insight into the impacts of economic, social and environmental changes on destination management, governance and development. Topics for discussion include advances and changes in technology, the global economy and governance as well as risk management and destination's' response to disruptions. Within a rapidly changing world, emphasis is given on resilient thinking and strategic management techniques in order to unlock the inner potential of destination's to respond and adapt positively to economic, environmental and social changes.This is valuable reading for tourism students and researchers, destination managers and policy makers."--Provided by publisher.
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part, I Definition and conceptual framework -- chapter 1 Linking destinations and resilience - challenges and perspectives / Harald Pechlaner Elisa Innerhofer -- chapter 2 Risk- and resilience-awareness. An empirical analysis of the basic supply in regions and on the demand side / Martin Fontanari Dirk Kredinger -- chapter 3 Multidisciplinary approaches to resilience in tourism destination studies -- A conceptual framework / Anna Scuttari Philipp Corradini -- part, II Destination management and governance towards resilience -- chapter 4 From resilience thinking to resilience practice - perspectives on destination development / Daniel Zacher -- chapter 5 Resilient tourism destinations? Governance implications of bringing theories of resilience and adaptive capacity to tourism practice / Stefan Hartman -- chapter 6 Cooperative approaches between health- and agro-tourism stakeholders in increasing rural destination resilience in Belarus / Siarhei Danskikh Anastasia Traskevich -- chapter 7 Integrated destination governance -- An evolutionary approach to open innovation and stakeholder engagement for resilient tourism destinations / Lauren Uğur -- chapter 8 Qualities and fields of action of destination resilience -- An indicator analysis process / Andreas Koler Stefan Ortner Mike Peters -- chapter 9 Business continuity management in the destination - proactive recognition, assessment and managing of disruptions / Germann Jossé Knut Scherhag -- part, III Business aspects and strategies to increase resilience -- chapter 10 Regional resilience - the special case of "money" / Georg Hechenberger -- chapter 11 Destination resilience and the sharing economy -- An exploration of the case of Airbnb / Michael Volgger Christof Pforr Dirk Reiser -- chapter 12 Hotel resilient - plan ahead, stay ahead. Promoting the business case for disaster and climate resilience in the tourism sector / Mareike Bentfeld Stephan Huppertz Bijan Khazai Trevor Girard -- chapter 13 How to make destinations resilient - from theory to practical application / Bernd Schabbing -- chapter 14 Agro-tourism in Belarus -- Resilience in development as a success factor / Georgi Gribov Veronika Rakitskaja -- chapter 15 The market of the tour operators in Germany within a disruptive environment -- Implications for the management and the resilient orientation of destinations / Martin Fontanari Timm Ewald.

"The challenge of destination management is to track and understand trends on different levels, to consider socio-economic developments and to respond proactively by addressing the paradigms of sustainability and resilience.By examining tourism and travel trends in a wide range of regions, this book offers new insight into the impacts of economic, social and environmental changes on destination management, governance and development. Topics for discussion include advances and changes in technology, the global economy and governance as well as risk management and destination's' response to disruptions. Within a rapidly changing world, emphasis is given on resilient thinking and strategic management techniques in order to unlock the inner potential of destination's to respond and adapt positively to economic, environmental and social changes.This is valuable reading for tourism students and researchers, destination managers and policy makers."--Provided by publisher.

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