Guide to Destination Management Planning

VisitEngland has launched a new Guide to Destination Management Planning. It is aimed at organisations with responsibilities for tourism development such as destination management organisations, local authorities, private sector, tourism associations and heritage bodies.  The guide is a key output of the Destination Management Action Plan, part of the Strategic Framework for Tourism in England 2010-2020, and supports the action plan objective "To share best practice among strategic planners and practitioners to ensure high quality, integrated destination management strategies". Click here to view the Guide.

TMI have been invited to comment on the new guide and would like to reflect your thoughts on it in their response. Please send any comments to Neil Mccollum by 3 September.

New publications

The Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre (STCRC), Australia's tourism scientific and strategic research organisation, recently ceased operations. The website will remain for the next 5 years to continue to offer, amongst other resources, a large number of leisure and tourism research papers that can be downloaded free:

• Destination management
• Event management
• Environmental systems
• Economic models
• Information technology
• Protected area management
• Wildlife tourism

The Tools and Products tab reveals further useful material such as the Tourism Risk Management Guide. Projects currently underway will also be completed and hosted on the site. Future areas of research can be found here.