Benson and Blackman (2011) discuss the applications and consequences of distributed
leadership in tourism firms. Distributed leadership refers to sharing the leadership functions
among a group of individuals, leaders and followers alike, that become incorporated through
interactional processes (Spillane et al., 2004; Harris et al., 2007). Although remaining mainly
at the firmlevel, their discussion is a good starting point for understanding the peculiarities of
leadership in the context of tourist destinations. Combining networked relationships among
autonomous actors with multiple peaks of entrepreneurial agency entails particular
challenges for leadership. Here is room for research on destination leadership that may well
contribute to overall research on leadership: The pronounced inter-organizational
environment of destinations puts it in a position to advance ideas of relational leadership
and distributed leadership