Dear Colleagues,

The strategic management and sustainable competitiveness of tourist destinations in times of change emerge as two essential pillars in the new global tourism context.

The impact of the global health crisis has had an unprecedented effect on the tourism industry. Facing "Tourism 0" has limited the ability to adopt measures to mitigate the results that are being seen. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recognizes that the measures implemented are highly uncertain, like we have never seen before, and must be constantly reviewed. The strict confinements imposed on the world’s population constitute an important factor in economic recovery, since the mobility of people decisively influences the consumption of the country's economies.

Therefore, the resilient strategic process of the global tourism industry requires new ways of thinking, technological interventions, crisis management and, moreover, public policies must intervene/mediate to overcome the uncertainties. This Special Issue seeks to address all these processes and stimulate knowledge to generate new alternatives and definitive measures of change in the global tourism industry.

We invite all research papers and case studies with a focus on a wide range of topics that address the principles and practices of strategic management and sustainable competitiveness in the tourism industry. Potential works include those that may address, but are not limited to, the following lines:

1. The relationship between strategic planning and crisis management
2. Research agendas that integrate strategic management and sustainablecompetitiveness 
3. The debate around the foundational aspects of the roles of sustainability and tourism (human action)  
4. A review of the tourism literature on sustainability
5. The relationship between resilience and sustainability (analysis of the concept of quality; the life that one values)
6. New methods/research of scanning the environment for strategic management
7. New technological interventions in strategic/crisis management
8. The interplay of national culture, sustainable development, and strategic occurrence
9. Identifying governments that tend to be the most successful at planning for crises and sustainable development efforts
10. How organisations have reinvented themselves to support sustainable development after facing a crisis
11. Identifying standards can use organisations to evaluate their success or failure in crisis management and sustainable development
12. How governments hinder and help efforts on sustainable development.
13. Residents´ support for sustainable tourism development
14. Consumers´ role and behaviour in the tourism sustainable competitiveness
15. The role of the World Economic Forum and tourism sustainable competitiveness
16. New leadership for tourism sustainable competitiveness
17. Sustainable tourism competitiveness in island destinations

Others

Prof. Dr. Eduardo Parra-López
Prof. Dr. Robertico Croes
Dr. José Alberto Martínez-González
Guest Editors

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• strategic management
• sustainable competitiveness
• crisis management
• change the business model
• strategic planning process
• problem solving in time of crisis
• organizational ambidexterity
• organizational agility
• digitization of organization
• new leadership
• resident´s support
• resilience