This book examines the contribution and importance of alliances and partnerships to the tourism, travel and leisure industries. It concludes by providing management and marketing implications and recommendations for tourism business, destination managers and local planners to enable them to successfully operate such alliances.

The key importance of involving diverse stakeholders in tourism planning and management is increasingly recognized. Collaboration and partnerships are essential ways of achieving this. Researchers and practitioners examine the processes, issues and politics involved in this growing field.

Explores the role of collaboration in tourism to sustain livelihoods, create profitable partnerships, and protect cultures and the environment. Based on robust research, it critically examines how collaboration enables (or impedes) sustainable tourism development, and suggests a role for collaboration.

The international tourism industry has seen increased growth in the past few years as millions of individuals continue to travel worldwide. As one of the world’s largest economic sectors, creating jobs, driving exports, and generating prosperity worldwide, hospitality and tourism management needs to continually be explored in order to update best business models and practice. Strategic Business Models to Support Demand, Supply, and Destination Management in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry is an essential reference source that emphasizes emergent and innovative aspects and new challenges and issues within the industry with a particular focus on demand, supply, and destination management. Featuring research on topics such as circular economy, consumer behavior, and social networking, this book is ideally designed for business professionals, executives, hotel managers, event coordinators, restaurateurs, travel agents, tour directors, policymakers, government officials, industry professionals, researchers, students, and academicians.

This book provides a thorough and detailed understanding of tourism marketing principles and practice within the context of inter- organisational collaboration.

Destination marketing requires businesses in a geographically limited area to work together to create greater levels of awareness of the destination. This book provides a holistic and systematic view of the collaborative strategies and processes with a focus on capacity and competence building for tourism organizations and destinations within an increasingly competitive marketing context. This book introduces the concept of collaboration and strategic networks as a destination marketing strategy. The book also provides valuable insights and guidelines into the process of strategic networking, while evidence from case studies has been integrated to support and enhance the strategies proposed. The book's systematic approach of combining theoretical/conceptual framework with practical industry implications makes the concepts easy to understand and implement in the business world.

The planning, design, management and marketing of experiences for tourism markets is a major challenge for tourism destinations and providers in a globalized and highly competitive market. This book bridges the gap in contemporary literature by carefully examining the management and marketing of tourism experiences.