St. Gallen Consensus on Destination Management

This paper summarizes the major outcomes of the first Biannual Forum on Advances in Destination Management, held in St. Gallen (Switzerland) over 6–8 June 2012. The summaries cover four discussion domains: (1) the definition and delimitation of destination management; (2) destination marketing and competitiveness; (3) sustainable destination development and governance; and (4) the implications that these concepts have for destination management in practice, as well as for potential research.