TY - JOUR

T1 - Identifying Global Challenges for Future Tourism and Tourism Management

AU - Lohmann, Martin

AU - von Bergner, Nele Marisa

N1 - Special Issue, Tourism Management, Marketing, & ICT Management: Proceedings – TMS International Conference 2012 ISBN 978-989-8472-25-0

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - Global tourism is a complex system, embedded within a dynamic framework and exposed to manifold trends, which may be perceived as challenges for the global tourism system. Exploratory research on the conditions and impacts of this field of intertwined challenges is needed as a prerequisite for future planning and tourism management. A reliable and shared knowledge on the nature of these challenges is essential. Our exploratory Delphi survey, carried out with an international panel of tourism experts, contributes to this task. We identified the most prominent challenges for global tourism until 2020, along with their drivers and impacts. We propose a structure of five “meta-challenges” that shows the complexity of the future global tourism system. Our structure may serve as a strategic road map for global tourism in a complex and dynamic world, allowing tourism managers to prepare for these challenges and to cope with them in a responsible way.

AB - Global tourism is a complex system, embedded within a dynamic framework and exposed to manifold trends, which may be perceived as challenges for the global tourism system. Exploratory research on the conditions and impacts of this field of intertwined challenges is needed as a prerequisite for future planning and tourism management. A reliable and shared knowledge on the nature of these challenges is essential. Our exploratory Delphi survey, carried out with an international panel of tourism experts, contributes to this task. We identified the most prominent challenges for global tourism until 2020, along with their drivers and impacts. We propose a structure of five “meta-challenges” that shows the complexity of the future global tourism system. Our structure may serve as a strategic road map for global tourism in a complex and dynamic world, allowing tourism managers to prepare for these challenges and to cope with them in a responsible way.

KW - Tourism studies

KW - Complex System

KW - Challenges

KW - Global Tourism System

KW - Delphi Survey

KW - Meta-Challenges

UR - http://www.tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/405/689

M3 - Conference article in journal

VL - 1

SP - 178

EP - 183

JO - Tourism & Management Studies

JF - Tourism & Management Studies

SN - 2182-8466

ER -