Destination Resilience Challenges and Opportunities for Destination Management and Governance

This book calls for rethinking the meaning of sustainable development in tourism and explores how sustainability and resilience could be integrated. It argues that these concepts should be seen as interwoven processes, rather than alternative approaches. Resilience should be understood as a fundamental part of sustainable tourism thinking for destination systems. This can be achieved by calling for better governance in implementation and management. With insights from leading experts, chapters focus on resilient destinations from this governance perspective, in which tourism resilience is contextualized as an integral part of pathway creation in the process of moving towards sustainable tourism. The chapters represent a range of theoretical and empirical approaches with a wide international scope to demonstrate how governance is the key issue in sustainable tourism development. This book will appeal to a wide range of research disciplines and students whose modules focus on the relationship between tourism with respect to sustainability planning, governance, environment, and hazards and disasters.

Part I Definition and Conceptual Framework Chapter 1Harald Pechlaner & Elisa Innerhofer Linking Destinations and Resilience – Challenges and Perspectives Chapter 2Martin Fontanari & Dirk Kredinger Risk- and Resilience-Awareness. An Empirical Analysis of the Basic Supply in Regions and on the Demand SideChapter 3Anna Scuttari & Philipp Corradini Multidisciplinary Approaches to Resilience in Tourism Destination Studies: A Conceptual Framework Part II Destination Management and Governance Towards Resilience Chapter 4Daniel ZacherFrom Resilience Thinking to Resilience Practice – Perspectives on Destination Development Chapter 5Stefan Hartman Resilient Tourism Destinations? Governance Implications of Bringing Theories of Resilience and Adaptive Capacity to Tourism PracticeChapter 6Siarhei Danskikh & Anastasia TraskevichCooperative Approaches between Health- and Agro-Tourism Stakeholders in Increasing Rural Destination Resilience in BelarusChapter 7Lauren UgurIntegrated Destination Governance: An Evolutionary Approach to Open Innovation and Stakeholder Engagement for Resilient Tourism DestinationsChapter 8Andreas Koler, Stefan Ortner & Mike Peters Qualities and Fields of Action of Destination Resilience: An Indicator Analysis Process Chapter 9Germann Jossé & Knut Scherhag Business Continuity Management in the Destination – Proactive Recognition, Assessment and Managing of DisruptionsPart III Business Aspects and Strategies to Increase Resilience Chapter 10Georg HechenbergerRegional Resilience – The Special Case Of „Money"Chapter 11Michael Volgger, Christoph Pforr & Dirk Reiser Destination Resilience and the Sharing Economy: An Exploration of the Case of AirbnbChapter 12Mareike Bentfeld, Stephan Huppertz, Bijan Khazai & Trevor GirardHotel Resilient – Plan Ahead, Stay Ahead. Promoting the Business Case for Disaster & Climate Resilience in the Tourism SectorChapter 13Bernd Schabbing How to Make Destinations Resilient – From Theory to Practical ApplicationChapter 14Georgi Gribov & Veronika RakitskajaAgro-Tourism in Belarus: Resilience in Development as a Success FactorChapter 15Martin Fontanari & Timm Ewald The Market of the Tour Operators in Germany within a Disruptive Environment: Implications for the Management and the Resilient Orientation of Destinations

Elisa Innerhofer, Eurac Research, Center for Advanced Studies, Bozen.Martin Fontanari, International School of Management (ISM), Cologne. Harald Pechlaner, Eurac Research, Center for Advanced Studies, Bozen; Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Chair of Tourism, Eichstätt.