Photo credit: pedrosimoes7
As part of their TDM study programme, the master students at this moment are writing their own articles and contributing to debates on tourism destination management.
This is a roundup of their articles and we’d hereby like to offer you the opportunity to interact with the current master students and the TDM curriculum: [...]

20 Oct 2009, Nina Nguyen on Climate change and destination tourism development
Climate change is known as global warming, ice melt, violent storms, drought, floods, extinction of species, etc, Vietnam potentially is one of the countries where climate change could have the most dramatic impact. Climate change in Vietnam would threat 2,000 miles of coastline in [...]

Destination Competitiveness in South Asia.
25/10/09 Dina Kupryushina on consumer market trends and destination competitiveness
Tourism is undergoing through extremely difficult conditions as the international economy continue to deteriorate and Asia and the Pacific, being attractive and lucrative tourism regions in the world, are also strongly crushed with the impact of the global slowdown. As it was [...]

23-10-2009, Carla Flores, Market Trends and Destination Competitiveness
Over the last decade the gay market segment has been targeted more and more. The United States, Australia, South Africa and Europe have targeted gay travelers as a potential market generating a lot of revenues and positive exposure for a destination. But, in general, this is not the [...]

The Government has a role to play in tourism planning which is not limited to economic development and poverty reduction but includes building the nation’s image and identity (Chheang, 2009). Tourism is widely recognized as a major income earner for various nations and the government is generally required to take on an active role in [...]

Destination branding is a set of marketing activities that support the creation of a name, symbol, logo, word mark or other graphic that readily identifies and differentiates a destination”(Steven Pike, 2009).
In recent months, Africa has been in the spot light and still is for the right reasons in terms of sporting events held in major [...]

Tourism is an industry that has an extended compromiser network (tourism can exercise power on many stakeholders). In terms of economical prosperity, on global level, tourism is one of the biggest contributors. On the other hand, tourism if not planned could also be the biggest contributor to economical failures and the mega-exploiter of natural and [...]

Sustaining tourism as a vehicle for economic development in any destination depends on maintaining destination competitiveness. What makes a tourism destination truly competitive is its ability to increase tourism expenditure, to increasingly attract visitors while providing them with satisfying memorable experiences and to do so in a profitable way while enhancing the well being of [...]

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 not [...]

“Ethnic” has become a popular tourist icon consumed and promoted locally and afar (Gladney,1999)(1). Together with culture tourism, in recent years, ethnic tourism has been increasingly developed. Ethnic tourism is employed by many countries to facilitate economic and cultural development and to assist in heritage preservation (Li Yang, Geoffrey Wall, 2009)(1). Vietnam is striving to [...]