Destination leadership: A new paradigm for tourist destinations?

Tourism Review

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Pechlaner, Harald ^a,b   Kozak, Metin ^c   Volgger, Michael ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

^c DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Destination governance; Destination leadership; Distributed leadership; Leadership networks; Relational leadership; Systemic leadership; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890376583     PISSN: 16605373     EISSN: 17598451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/TR-09-2013-0053     Document Type: Article

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