2. Key issues and current trends
The key issues and current trends analyzed during the conference
are:
1. the increasing competition among tourism destinations and
the rise and consolidation of BRIC countries as outbound travel
markets;
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jdmm
Journal of Destination Marketing & Management
2212-571X/$ - see front matter & 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdmm.2013.11.003
n Corresponding author. Tel.: þ39 512098071; fax: þ39 512098074.
E-mail addresses: Marcello.Mariani@unibo.it (M.M. Mariani),
dbuhalis@bournemouth.ac.uk (D. Buhalis), longhi@gredeg.cnrs.fr (C. Longhi),
ranivito@hol.gr (O. Vitouladiti).
Journal of Destination Marketing & Management 2 (2014) 269–272
2. the modification of the target markets for established tourism
destinations;
3. the increasing importance of collaboration and especially coopetition
not only within a tourism destination but also among
destinations.
In what follows we scrutinize each and every of the aforementioned
issues and trends