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Destination management organisations – the scapegoats for every unsuccessful tourism destination

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 [...]

OLYMPICS – Hosting Olympics can damage tourism

eTN, Jul 07, 2008

Staging the Olympics is detrimental to the tourism growth trends of both the host cities and countries, according to industry research. Cities bidding to stage the Olympics tend to talk up the lasting tourism benefits of hosting the event, but the evidence of recent games suggest the opposite, says [...]

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS – No recess for the rich

TTGasia.com, Jul 4 – 10, 2008

For travel suppliers – especially hotel developers caught up in what can only be described as an arms race to ramp up the deluxe quotient of their properties – a new report by Merrill Lynch and consulting firm Capgemini Group should make encou­raging reading. According to the report, [...]

MARKETS – Tourism in Emerging and Developing Markets

Asiatraveltips.com, 26 June 2008

With international travellers projected to almost double by 2020, the most significant increases are expected to take place in markets like China, India and destinations in South-East Asia. The Gulf States and emerging Eastern Europe complete this picture, followed by the Latin American and finally African markets. Many [...]

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS – Airline challenges lead to unprecedented cooperation among Caribbean governments

eTN, Jun 16, 2008

This coordination level accelerated recently when the chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and the president of the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) had the foresight to call an emergency meeting in Antigua for ministers and commissioners responsible for tourism, ministers and commissioners responsible for aviation, and members of [...]