Special Issue on Destination Design: Aesthetics, Development and Technology

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-destination-marketing-and-management/call-for-papers/destination-design-aesthetics-development-and-technology

*Key Deadlines*

Open call for expressions – 30 April 2018
Authors notified – 31 May 2018
Full articles by – 30 September 2018
Revisions and final decisions – 28 February 2019
Publication – Mid 2019

*Proposal*

*Journal of Destination Marketing & Management*
Co-Editors: Alan Fyall, Brian Garrod, Raymond (Y.) Wang

The introduction of the concept “destination design” can help to widen the
current perspective on tourism destinations for the benefit of tourism
destination managers and tourism researchers. While other notions such as
governance and leadership have already been successfully applied to tourism
destinations and have helped to deepen our understanding of how tourism
destinations work, researchers in tourism have paid much less attention to
linking design thinking with tourism destinations.

The concept of design has developed from an isolated understanding of
aesthetic elements and product development to an approach of design
thinking, including new approaches to innovation. This is why design
thinking has increasingly be seen as a new paradigm for dealing with
problems in different industries (Brown, 2009). Although design is
sometimes perceived as a buzzword, it might also have the ability to
combine various disciplines, develop fresh understandings of problems and
offer innovative solutions (Brandes et al., 2009).

Destination design can be a suitable perspective to combine different views
in order to create a new vision of destination development. It is
well-positioned to integrate isolated approaches such as service design,
product design, network design, atmospheric design and experience design.
Additionally, there are obvious links to topics encompassing, but not
limited to, resilience, sustainability, technology, destination evolution
and transformative design.

Currently, design thinking is often leveraged through the use of new
technologies. In this context, smart technologies are impacting development
trajectories in cities and tourism destinations (Batty et al., 2012). The
concept of “smart cities” has been transferred to “smart tourism
destinations”. Obviously, technological development requires interpretation
in the context of tourism destinations in order to improve the customer
experience. Having said that, without doubt, ICT and technological
applications can be enablers for innovation and development (Boes et al.,
2015).

Although tourism and design have already been linked in contributions
focusing on destination place planning and design (Dredge, 1999), design
science in tourism (Fesenmaier & Xiang, 2017), design of routes (Rodríguez
et al, 2012) and experience design in tourism (Tussyadiah, 2014),
design-inspired perspectives may potentially help to further connect
theoretical approaches and practical implications in destination-oriented
research, while pooling different disciplines and actors. With respect to
ethical responsibilities, the concept of “design futuring” (Fry, 2009)
argues that any design needs to take social and ecological concerns as well
as ethical dimensions into consideration.

Without doubt, the discussion about destination design is still in its very
early stages, is partly unstructured and theoretical principles are yet to
be developed. Most importantly, a fruitful combination with topics from
various disciplines is still to be accomplished. It is therefore timely to
explore possible future directions of destination design as an approach to
advance our understanding of tourism destinations.

This special issue of the Journal of Destination Marketing & Management
critically deals with current questions and matters of concern for the
development of a research stream on destination design. Questions can
include, but should not necessarily be limited to:

   - What can be critical contributions of design-oriented thinking to the
   future of destination management and governance?
   - Who designs? According to the concept of design, “everyone can – and
   does – design” (Cross, 2011) but to what extent is this principle
   realizable in a tourism destination? Who are actual and who could be
   potential designers of a tourism destination?
   - What does “participatory design” mean in destination contexts?
   - How can design thinking influence the development of a destination?
   What can be positive and negative implications when applying the “design”
   concept in the development of a destination?
   - How does a design-process in a destination look like in concrete
   terms? What is the degree of hierarchy and planning involved?
   - How can “destination design” facilitate innovation?
   - Which concepts and methods in “design” have already been applied to
   destinations and how did they influence the destinations’ further
   development?
   - To what extent can destinations be an interesting field of application
   for design-related thinking?

This special issue will be edited by Prof Dr Harald Pechlaner - Catholic
University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany, Dr Michael Volgger - Curtin
University, Australia, and Greta Erschbamer - Eurac Research, Italy.

If you wish to submit your work for inclusion in this special issue of
JDMM, please contact the editors directly with your title and abstract.

Harald Pechlaner - [log in to unmask]
Michael Volgger - [log in to unmask]
Greta Erschbamer – [log in to unmask]

Best wishes,
Harald Pechlaner, Michael Volgger and Greta Erschbamer


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