The main goal of this dissertation thesis has been defined as the development and presentation of a model designed to show transparency of different effects of tourism in urban destinations and its practical application by destination management organizations. The resident sub-model was compiled, based on research in the selected destination as well as its statistical evaluation. This sub-model clearly demonstrates relationships that affect tourism. This decision model was focused on the socio-economic effects, primarily generated by residents, which influence tourists and basically tourism in urban destinations. The resident sub-model was subsequently incorporated into another decision model of the sustainable destination to show the resident influence on objective economic factors generated by tourism in urban destinations. These two models clearly illustrate how complicated system is the behaviour of residents and which significant negative / positive effects on tourism can generate. For the development of this solution system thinking was used as the main methodological approach. System thinking has been actually rarely used, but it is very effective method, because it can reveal complexity of diverse relationships and find possibilities how to influence and control these relationships; in this case by destination management organizations. This solution is intended primarily for these tourism institutions. This method was intentionally simplified to be applicable by the local organizations. However, it retains high level of efficiency, which can bring required objectivity in very subjective relationships between residents, tourist and basically tourism at urban destinations.

Submitted by Paulo Junior (paulo.jr@fgv.br) on 2010-05-26T19:01:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Inger Marie Nyvoll Antonsen.pdf: 1432222 bytes, checksum: eced5b393c7c1c2836cb62923738b5c6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Paulo Junior(paulo.jr@fgv.br) on 2010-05-26T19:01:31Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Inger Marie Nyvoll Antonsen.pdf: 1432222 bytes, checksum: eced5b393c7c1c2836cb62923738b5c6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2010-05-27T17:02:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Inger Marie Nyvoll Antonsen.pdf: 1432222 bytes, checksum: eced5b393c7c1c2836cb62923738b5c6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-02-09 / A destination is a place that attracts visitors for a temporary stay to participate in tourism related activities or non- activities. Globalization, the increased number of travelers and the increased buying power have increased the competition between the destinations and the destinations have become more substitutable. It has been agreed that destinations can be branded as well as products and to be competitive it is getting common to brand destinations. Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs) are responsible for the marketing of an identifiable destination. The purpose of this study is to present an exploratory study of how a destination marketing organization creates and builds a strong destination brand and how the stakeholders have been involved in the process. The study is done with a qualitative case study approach. The case study was chosen as the research method to make a detailed and intensive analysis of the research objective, in this case the destination brand of Brazil and its stakeholders.

This thesis is focused on comparison of tourism management in destinations Český Krumlov and Jindřichův Hradec, on revealing weaknesses, finding examples of good practice and designing the Destination Management Company at the local level. The analytical part deals with analyzing internal and external factors of destinations Český Krumlov and Jindřichův Hradec and identifying appropriate strategies. In the synthetic part was carried out design of the Destination Management Company for the destination Jindřichův Hradec. Part of the project is financing plan.

This thesis indicates the destination branding in the South Bohemian Region. It focuses on three existing destination management organizations in this area. These destinations include the Down of Český Krumlov, the Písek Region and the Lipno Region.

The diploma work deals with the destination management of Pilsen region. First part of my work describes the theoretical solutions. The diploma work continues with collection and analysis of primary and secondary date. In this part is possible to find the informations about conditions for development of tourism, about the methods of marketing diversification of pilsen tourist region, there are the organization of destination management of Pilsen region and the individual activities executing with this organization. The following part is considering with evaluation of gathered informations, recapitulates activities executing within destination management of Pilsen region and inquire current controling of destination.The diploma work also offers a group of steps for improvement of destination controling of Pilsen region as an important destination of tourism.

The purpose of this study, written in Swedish, is to study two of the most popular sportsevents in Sweden; Vasaloppet and Göteborgsvarvet (Gothenburg Half Marathon) and theaffect the events has on the host destinations and also how the organizers use the destinationsfor their development.The study also shows how municipalities and public authorities connected to destinationdevelopment handles these events for their own purpose in their destination marketing todevelop their destination and improve the destination image.To achieve the purpose of the study, the following research questions has been formulated:“How does the municipality work with these events to improve the development of thedestination?” and “How does Vasaloppet and Göteborgsvarvet affect the destinations and howdoes the race events use their destination for their development?”Big events related to tourism is often organized by independent actors without any supportfrom the government controlled authorities. Despite that, the municipality or governmentcontrolled organizations will always have an an impact on these big events since they providethe essential infrastructure, transport, etc.One of the tools used in this study is semi structured interviews with 19 different, for thecases, relevant people, including the leaders within the organizing committees of Vasaloppetand Göteborgsvarvet. Interviews has also been made with the municipalities and otherpartners to the organizers. As a complement to these interviews, we have also interviewed afew participants from the two races. The study is also complemented with media articles andother previous research in the subject.The study identifies a strong dependency between the organizers and destinations that goesboth ways. The conclusion clearly shows the needs of cooperation and support between all theinvolved organizations to be able to achieve the best possible result and development. Thestudy reveals how all the involved organizations cooperates and works in relation to eachother and what could be done in other ways to optimize the best conditions for development. / Syftet med den här studien är att kartlägga hur två av Sveriges största folkliga evenemang,Vasaloppet och Göteborgsvarvet, påverkar de destinationer de äger rum i och hur använder desig av respektive ort. Även hur aktuella kommuner och offentliga instanser kopplade tilldestinationsutveckling arbetar för att kapitalisera på dessa evenemang, dels ekonomiskt menframförallt i marknadsförande och imagelyftande syfte. För att uppnå studiens syfte harföljande forskningsfrågor utformats: “Hur arbetar kommunen, kopplat till destinationsutveckling,för att kapitalisera på dessa evenemang, dels ekonomiskt men framförallt imarknadsförande och imagelyftande syfte?” och “Hur påverkar Vasaloppet och Göteborgsvarvetsina respektive destinationer och hur använder evenemangen sig i sin tur av orten?”Stora evenemang relaterade till turistnäringen arrangeras ofta av självständiga aktörer utaninblandning från offentlig verksamhet. Dock kommer det offentliga alltid påverkaförutsättningarna för arrangemanget genom exempelvis att förse evenemanget med nödvändiginfrastruktur, transportmedel, markupplåtelse med mera, vilket är något som staten,kommunen, landstinget eller myndigheter ansvarar över (Svensk Turism 2010).Forskningsfrågorna har besvarats med hjälp utav semistrukturerade intervjuer med 19personer som vi ansett vara relevanra. Dessa är: Informant vid Mora kommun, Älvdalenskommun och Malung-Sälens kommun samt informant vid Sälens turistbyrå, Eva-Lena Frick(Vasaloppets VD) och Bo Edsberger (Göteborgsvarvets general).Vidare har även sponsorer avevenemangen och deltagare intervjuats. Intervjuerna gavs innebörd genom meningskoncentrering.Detta betyder att information som framkommit i intervjuerna delas in i olikateman. Intervjutexterna har sedan analyserats med hjälp av vår referensram som innehåller decentrala begreppen: Turistdestination, Evenemangsmarknadsföring, Event branding ochSportevenemang. Vidare kompletterades faktan från intervjuerna med information från mediasom behandlat de olika evenemangen.I studien har ett tydligt beroende mellan arrangör och destination identifierats i tvåvägariktningar. Det visar på behovet av samarbete och stöttning mellan de två parterna för att nåbäst möjliga resultat och utveckling. I studien framkommer hur de olika inblandadeorganisationerna i dagsläget arbetar med och förhåller sig till varandra.

The objective of the diploma thesis was to evaluate the current position of perception of the Hungary among residents of the Czech Republic in relation to its brand and its means of communication and bring some recommendations to support the promotion of the country in relation to tourism. The results will be available and provided to the selected interested organizations. To meet the specified objectives, it was necessary to analyze primary and secondary data. To obtain the primary data was made a quantitative research using questionnaires and additional qualitative research in the form of individual interviews. The result was that Czech citizens perceive this country positively, but they don´t perceive all of the communicated values that promote the attractiveness of the tourist destination. Recommendations were related to the construction of more effective promotional campaigns and the promotion of marketing communication tools to support the positive development of tourism.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to create a general outline reflecting promotion of the Czech Republic in tourism in past 10 years. The first chapter specifies the key issues dealt with in the thesis namely theoretical definitions of tourist destination, marketing and management of the destination and its characteristics. For instance creation of regional touristic products (packages), which are essential in terms of representation of the Czech Republic in foreign markets. The following part deals with promotion and image of the Czech Republic as a tourist destination. The third chapture describes development of efforts to promote the Czech Republic as a tourist destination as well as the role of organizations that control the whole promotion. The last section outlines, evaluates and compares individual marketing strategies, campaigns and activities of the national agency CzechTourism from its beginning until 2007.

The diploma thesis focuses on the issue of evaluating the efficiency of destination marketing campaigns that is becoming increasingly important in relation to the incresing competition on the tourism market and the changes in the system of setting public support in this sector. The theoretical part deals with the concept of tourism destination, possibilities of marketing communication for national tourist organizations and describes the evaluation of the campaigns efficiency according to the methodology of VisitBritain. The practical part focuses on the activities and strategy of The German National Tourist Board (GNTB) and its main campaign for the year 2015- Traditions and Customs. The aim of this thesis is especially the testing of the methodology for assessment of destination marketing impact developed by the VisitBritain and the following adjustment of the methodology based on the results of the survey and the evaluation of the campaign.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to design a destination card for Toulava region. This region is located on the border of Central and South Bohemia. Theoretical part of the thesis is focused on theory of destination management and marketing. Destination cards are broadly speaking packages of tourism services, so the first part deals with this term a lot. Next chapter is focused on destination card principles and best practices in this field. The second part of the thesis occupies with an analysis of internal as well as external environment of the Toulava region. The last chapter deals with a design of the destination card itself and it is based on findings from previous chapters.