Destination Management: Stakeholder Impact, Interventions, and Issues

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of tourism destination management, addressing the multifaceted challenges faced by destination managers. It begins with an introduction to the subject, highlighting the various issues involved in managing tourism destinations, including stakeholder management, fragmentation, and the impact of political and economic factors. The report delves into the impacts of tourism on various stakeholders, including residents, employees, and local companies. It then explores the strategic and operational interventions adopted by destination managers to mitigate negative impacts and enhance benefits, such as sustainable management practices, empowering destinations, and utilizing government policies. Furthermore, it discusses approaches and techniques for meeting tourism requirements, emphasizing sustainable tourism practices across environmental, economic, and socio-cultural dimensions. The report also examines real-world issues in tourism, such as safety concerns and the need for sustainable practices, along with proposed solutions. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the importance of effective destination management for sustainable tourism development.

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Impact of tourism on various stakeholders......................................................................................4
Strategic and operational interventions adopted by destination managers......................................6
Approaches and Techniques for meeting the requirements of tourism...........................................8
Real-world issues in tourism and their solutions.............................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
The assignment task made in regards to the management of tourism destination as it faces several
issues in the overall process management. The destinations need to manage as it includes several
issues related to the stakeholders, fragmentation, terrorism trends and political environment. All
these issues give a great impact on destination management and affect all the aspects related to
the tourism industry. This task will be discussed about the impact of destination management on
the stakeholders in the destination and the challenges facing destination managers. The strategic
and operational interventions used by the adoption managers are also included in this task. As it
reduces the several negative impacts on tourism and creates many benefits for the particular
destination. The management of a destination is too difficult to manage.

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Impact of tourism on various stakeholders
The industry has various stakeholders that include residents, media, employees, government,
competitors, local companies, business associations and tourism developers. The tourism process
greatly impacts on these stakeholders of the destinations (Marine-Roig and Clave, 2015). The
tourism greatly impacts on the local community of the destination. The different impact of
tourism of different stakeholders includes:
 Residents
The residents of the destination get affected by the different impacts of tourism. It is not
only the volume of work but the social interactions also affect the local community of
people (Gananapala, 2015). Majorly, the three broad effects at the local community
involve the commodification of culture, acculturation of another culture and the effect of
demonstration. All these three effects greatly impact the stakeholders in various impacts.
 Employees
Tourism greatly positively impacts employees and increase employability and proper
economic growth. As it has been analyzed that tourism increases the overall economic
growth and employability properly.
 Government
The government is largely impacted by tourism activities. As the economy of the
particular government is largely affected by tourism as it increases the level of the capital
outlays, fire protection, police protection and several financial administrations.
 Local companies
Several local companies get affected by tourism activities. Although, tourism gives socio-
cultural impacts and improves the overall opportunities of the local companies (Hristiv
and Zehrer, 2015). The main opportunity of local companies is increasing in economic
benefits. It has been analyzed that a large number of visitors affect the overall trade of
local companies.

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The destination managers face several challenges in the business which includes:
 The essential challenge faced by the manager includes the policy of the government that
always favors the centralized management.
 The other important challenge faced by manager is the difference between complaining
vs. doing.
 The third most important challenge occurs in the destination management is the lack of
sustainable financial support.

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Strategic and operational interventions adopted by destination managers
The several interventions get occurred in the destination management and it is important to use
these processes in the tourism which decrease the negative impact of tourism and it increases the
benefits for the tourism managers. The main interventions used by managers include strategic
and operational interventions (Morgan, 2012). Both interventions work in different aspects as the
strategy works in the proper management of the interventions works in the management of
operations.
The description of interventions adopted by the destination managers include:
 Sustainable management
The management of sustainable activities is important for the tourism activities and also
need to manage the overall environment by the activities used in tourism. Sustainable
management is one of the best interventions that decrease the negative impact of tourism
and maintain all the environmental activities in a different process (Mariani, et al., 2014).
 Empowering destinations
The other intervention used by the destination managers is to empowering the destination
by giving employability to the people of the destination to work in tourism activities.
This process empowers the destination and improves the overall process of destination
management in various ways. All the negative impacts get decreased by using these
interventions.
 Use of destination monitoring mechanism
The destination managers use the proper monitoring of destination and improve the
different mechanism in different ways. The monitoring mechanism helps the overall
destination management and guide the managers to improve the overall activities used in
the tourism process (Morrison, 2013).
 Use of government policy in destination management
The use of government policy is also included in one of the main interventions used by
destination managers. The government policies are too much beneficial for the use of

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interventions in the proper management of destination. Polices are made for the proper
management and to improve the tourism activities at a particular place.

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Approaches and Techniques for meeting the requirements of tourism
The several approaches are used for the proper management of tourism and theses approaches
helps in the management of tourism planning and fulfil all the requirements of the tourism. The
main requirements of tourism include practices to maintain sustainable tourism practices. The
sustainable tourism practices include the various aspects of tourism that includes environmental,
economic and socio-cultural aspects of tourism development (Alvarez, 2012). The concept of
sustainable tourism is too essential as it manages different environmental conditions that affected
due to tourism planning and activities. The different approaches that help to meet the
requirements of the tourism are discussed as below-
 Economic Approach
The economic approach is used to maintain the economic aspects of tourism and maintain
the overall economic activities of the particular destination so that proper planning of
tourism can be achieved. The economic approach is too important in the overall
management o tourism and it gives several benefits in the overall tourism department.
 Social Approach
The social approach is also affected the tourism process as the people of the society is the
essential need for tourism. This approach manages all the different process of tourism in
different ways.
 Cultural approach
The cultural approach includes overall cultural management in the tourism process. The
culture of the destinations plays an important role in tourism. The different culture of the
places affects the different people and attract them towards the use of the destination in a
different manner.
 Geographical approach
This approach also matters in the management of tourism as geographical condition
affect the places and increase the tourism activities in different ways (Pechlaner, et al.,
2012). The geographical conditions of the different destinations are different and this
management is one of the best approaches to tourism.

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Real-world issues in tourism and their solutions
Tourism industry faces several issues that are connected to the real world. The real-world issues
affected the overall tourism industry in a major aspect and it affects the overall process occurs in
the development of tourism. The main issues related to the tourism industry include:
 Concerns for safety and security
The main issues occur in the tourism industry is related to the concerns for proper safety
and security. The safety and security need to maintain the overall issues occur among
tourism.
 Maintaining a destination sustainable tourism
The other main issue is related to the maintaining of sustainability in the environment and
it relates to the proper management of the environmental conditions (Van Niekerk, 2017).
The maintenance of sustainable tourism is a too important issue in the tourism industry.
 Increasing interest in tourism activities
The increment related to tourism activities is also treated as an important issue in tourism.
The interest in tourism activities creates many problems in the tourism industry.
Some solutions to solve these issues in the tourism industry:
There are several solutions affect the overall issues in the tourism industry. The various solutions
that manage the issues in the tourism industry include:
 Maintain the proper safety among the tourists
Safety is important for tourists and it increases the overall profits of the tourism industry.
The safety is too important for solving the safety problems occurs in the tourism industry.
 Make a cleanliness program

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The cleanliness programs are conducted by the government to improve the cleaning
issues of tourism (Petroman, et al., 2012). The cleaning can create the decrement in the
occurring of tourists.
 Decreases the internal conflict
The decreasing in the internal conflict solve several real-world issues among the tourists
and internal conflicts affect the tourists and decrease their attraction towards the
destinations.
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Conclusion
From the above information, the several processes of destination managements have been
analyzed. The overall activities and approaches used in destination management have been
discussed in the paper. The tourism industry has various stakeholders that include residents,
media, employees, government, competitors, local companies, business associations and tourism
developers. The tourism process greatly impacts on these stakeholders of the destinations. The
several interventions get occurred in the destination management and it is important to use these
processes in the tourism which decrease the negative impact of tourism and it increases the
benefits for the tourism managers. The sustainable tourism practices include the various aspects
of tourism that includes environmental, economic and socio-cultural aspects of tourism
development. The concept of sustainable tourism is too essential as it manages different
environmental conditions

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