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Tourism is a very popular activity worldwide since it offers numerous opportunities to color up the tiring and boring lives of the human beings. It has been very hard to catch up with work, family, and social life since most of the people have to work due to economical burdens and the problems that arise day to day. The problems and the burdens urge people to take care of their health and level of stress so that tourism seems to be one of the most effective tools to keep away from the daily conflicts. This popular rise also brought new concepts and definitions to the literature which underlines the importance of life in terms of “quality” such as quality-of-life. However, it is evident that the interest of individuals in tourism caught the interests of the entrepreneurs, the interest of entrepreneurs accelerated the rivalry, and the rivalry brought the challenging and severe competition in several tourism destinations. This competitiveness not only caused a high increase in terms of revenues and infrastructural developments in destinations but also it caused remaining negative effects which seemed to be affecting the quality-of-life. This chapter highlights the interaction between the competitiveness of the tourism destinations and the quality-of-life. The importance of destination management and marketing are also underlined with regard to close relationship between these two phenomena.

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Pırnar, I., Günlü, E. (2012). Destination Management and Quality-of-Life. In: Uysal, M., Perdue, R., Sirgy, M. (eds) Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2288-0_31

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