Administration system to improve the tourist destination competitiveness

Abstract

Tourism is seen as and activity of a valuable source of economic improvement. Tourist’s destination places make efforts to maintain, improve and project better services and products as the main elements to expose to demanding markets. To accomplish this objective, these consolidated geographical locations and all those that are in the process of becoming such (i.e. Tourist’s destinations), have been implementing a Destination Management System - DAS (i.e. SGD in Spanish) which responds to the changes and constant demands of the markets; A system capable of guiding ‘work efforts’ that also allows to achieve competitiveness. The present article exposes the components that integrate a DMS, and also points out the different applicable administration models of ‘up and coming’ destinations.