Summary
Disscusions and Recommedations
Destination marketing is increasingly demanding with rising visitors expectations and highly intensifies competition between destinations, especially in a same region. Destination management must respond and react quickly in terms of ensuring the sustainable development in this complex environment. Drawing on the previous evaluations and discussions, the aim in this chapter is to discuss some of the key issues relating to the tourism management activities such as managing on tourist behaviour diversity, tourist policy and strategy, destination branding, human resources and quality management, in the context of cultural tourism in Kyoto and discusses the need for further research into collaboration in the management of destination. Kyoto's management of its World Heritage Sites is very sophisticated. The city has nearly 20 important and internationally recognized sites. This kind of forward thinking that has resulted in the superb preservation of a phenomenal range of important properties including temples, gardens, the arts and all kinds of traditional culture. The success of heritage protection in Kyoto is the result of good management based on cooperation between tourism stakeholders who take responsibility for the tourism industry and protection of important cultural heritage sites of all kinds. However, the Kyoto tourism authority was and is still facing many problems linked to forms of management of destinations as a whole, some of them may need to be reviewed or improved in many ways.
Quality improvement also means to keep providing best product or service in a similar object, by doing that Kyoto will be in a position to stand out in the competitive environment. For example, some Western cultural visitors may have interests in traditional calligraphy, for cultural-historical reasons, the Japanese and Chinese writing are quite similar, which destination will beat others to win this competition surely depends on the high quality teacher and teaching method as well as the study and staying in the environment at a reasonable price.
Human Resources
“Tourism is a high-touch, high-tech, high-involvement industry where it is the people that make the difference.” The rapidly changing globalized environment requires better-educated and well-trained human resources with awareness and knowledge of the external environment and trends and the new consumer requirements to operate in the most effective manner. It may involve language ability, high-quality communication skill, high levels of amenity, and a high degree of cultural intelligence. Those human resources are advantage which will enable destination to strengthen their competitiveness for the future. Additionally, there is a growing recognition that enhanced destination management, like the better management of tourism related activities, will be a combination of enhanced people multi-skills, including the development of new attractions and the interpretation and communication of information, also will required keep up to date high-technology. These destination management requirements have much to offer the future of sustainable tourism as destinations can be protectors, substitutes and educational aids fro fragile resources and environments.
Further Research
More research effort is needed to compare tourist and resident motives in a way that will yield practical marketing implications. In a tourism context, not only must needs, motives and benefits be better understood, but destination and event attractiveness, marketing efforts, barriers and personal contingency factors will also shape decisions to travel. Furthermore, as a result in analyzing the development of cultural tourism in its many forms, the key dilemma facing academics, destination authorize and the local communities, is the tension that exists between the economic goals of tourist development, the social and cultural impact of tourism, and the sustainable development of destination itself.#p#分页标题#e#
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