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Tourism Development Strategy

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A tourism development strategy is a long-term plan and guiding principles developed by countries or regions for tourism development. From the trade perspective, a tourism development strategy is a general plan of the goals, means and methods for tourism development that is made according to the internal and external environments and its accessible resources to achieve long-term, stable and sustained development. It is a reflection of the industrial economy and is also the basis for formulating an industrial plan. It can be divided into macro and micro levels. From a microscale perspective, a tourism development strategy is a combination of plans, measures and programmes formulated by a regional tourism industry based on the strength of its tourism enterprises. In regional tourism, a development strategy is composed of marketing, human resource management, pricing and promotional plans; thus, the microscale concept is the development strategy made by tourism enterprises from the view...

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(2020). Tourism Development Strategy. In: Chen, A., Ng, Y., Zhang, E., Tian, M. (eds) Dictionary of Geotourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_2515

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