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The article addresses framework conditions and imperatives created by COVID-19 for tourism sector with the aim to prioritise the concept of destination resilience. Resilience-oriented market framew...

Verantwortliche Unternehmensfuhrung zeichnet sich vor allem in Phasen disruptiver Storungen oder systemischer Krisen aus und erfahrt uber den Begriff der resilienten Ausrichtung von Unternehmen eine neue Bedeutung im Kontext der Nachhaltigkeitsorientierung. Es existieren nur wenige ganzheitliche Erklarungsansatze und Modelle der organisatorischen Resilienz; diese werden kurz erlautert und der Forschungsbedarf aufgezeigt. Zwei empirische Untersuchen verdeutlichen die Relevanz der Notwendigkeit einer starkeren resilienten Ausrichtung von Unternehmen. Experten verweisen auf eine teilweise bereits vorhandene partielle Resilienz in Unternehmen. Die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse munden in ein ganzheitliches Modell der unternehmerischen Resilienzgestaltung bzw. -ausrichtung.

New shifts in medicine make Mental Wellness a trend-topic for product development. An important aspect of product design is the image projected of the destination of travel for Mental Wellness and ...

Since the early 1970s, travellers’ criticism of the volume of tourism has been a regular tradition. Overtourism, however, is addressed as a more recent phenomenon, and is also referred to as the ‘touristification’ of a habitat, with all the negative economic, ecological and social outcomes that excessive tourism entails. A classification of the problem areas discussed in the history of tourism attempts to point out both similarities and new aspects of overtourism. In more recent science and practice, individual instruments of tourism design and control are already being used to overcome overtourism, such as visitor flow control, spreading, regulatory measures via state intervention (e.g. quotas) and the first digital control systems. Nevertheless, there is no clear picture of the assessment of overtourism in terms of measurability, methods of strategic planning with foresight, or the development of digital supports in the context of overall city or destination management. A three-stage international Delphi survey in 2019 confronted experts from the fields of science, management and media with 28 theses on the current and future assessment of overtourism. The results show that the phenomenon requires a broader perspective – both on the question of problem solving and acceptance of the phenomenon, and on the question of a new type of cooperation- and resiliency-oriented thinking and action by all participants and people affected.

This research focuses on the phenomenon of overtourism with the aim of demonstrating both the plurality of views on overtourism; and the fact that a consensus is identified using the Delphi method....

Due to the increasing use of technology and economies of scale, economic globalization has generated serious changes in markets and systems as well as fragile dependencies. The more complex, global and cross-linked these new economic, technical and political structures become, the more complex the control and governance over regional systems will become to preserve a state of equilibrium. In times of temporary and latent crises, priority should be given to approaches which address the survivability or protection of the performance of companies and regions. In the context of tourist destination development, resilient destinations are regions which as far as possible can uncouple from such dependencies, increasingly rely on internal strengths and authentic potentials, thereby contributing to added value and creation on a global scale. Drawing on two different empirical studies, this essay illustrates how the security of supply can be assessed under the aspect of resilience on the supply side. On the other hand, the demand side will be taken into account in terms of its attitudes in the event of a crisis with the security of supply. This finally leads to reflections on the question of how destination management can contribute to a raising awareness on “destination-resilience”.

This chapter elaborates and compares understanding of the resilience of German tour operators with an assessment of the importance of resilient destinations. In the ideal case, an efficient management of resilience leads to the fastest possible restoration of supply and functionality – both through internal and external resources, which are used in the course of resilience and crisis management. The evolution of resilience requires a dynamic adjustment and development process. Thus, a destination in the strategic context can align its long-term development orientation according to the destination and market potentials with the family goal and thus go through a "double development". The chapter aims to define the use of the concept of resilience for the tourism environment. It demonstrates its different meanings, applications and integrative function in an understanding of the various meanings; a different concept of resilience will emerge for a destination than for a tourism company, such as the tour operator.