Table of Contents:
  • Destination marketing and management : scope, definition and structures / Youcheng Wang
  • Destination planning and policy : process and practice / John Jenkins, Dianne Dredge and Jessica Taplin
  • Travel motivation, benefits and constraints to destinations / Philip L. Pearce
  • Traveller decision making : the experientialist stance / Drew Martin, Ercan Sirakaya-Turk and Arch Woodside
  • Destination information search strategies / Dogan Gursoy
  • Experiential consumption and destination marketing / Andrew R. Walls and Youcheng Wang
  • Destination marketing research : issues and challenges / Muzaffer Uysal, Rich Harrill and Eunju Woo
  • Destination branding and positioning / Asli D.A. Tasci
  • Destination image development and communication / Amir Shani and Youcheng Wang
  • The evolution of tourism products in St Andrews, Scotland : from religious relics to golfing mecca / Richard Butler
  • Distribution channels in destination marketing and promotion / John Kracht and Youcheng Wang
  • Destination marketing systems : critical factors for functional design and management / Youcheng Wang
  • eTourism : critical information and communication technologies for tourism destinations / Dimitrios Buhalis, Daniel Leung and Rob Law
  • Web 2.0, the online community and destination marketing / Peter O'Connor, Youcheng Wang and Xu Li
  • Events and destination management / Graham Brown, Leo Jago, Laurence Chalip, Shameem Ali and Trevor Mules
  • Collaborative destination marketing : principles and applications / Youcheng Wang
  • Tourism development and destination community residents / Claudia Jurowski
  • The importance of safety and security for tourism destinations / Galia Fuchs and Abraham Pizam
  • Destination crisis management / Lori Pennington-Gray and Abraham Pizam
  • A model of destination competitiveness and sustainability / J.R. Brent Ritchie and Geoffrey I. Crouch
  • Destination management : challenges and opportunities / Alan Fyall.