Destination Marketing Organisations

Acknowledgments

Destination Marketing Organisations is a result of a combination of my experiences as a destination marketer and as an academic. In both of these worlds I have benefited from wise counsel. In the academic arena I must firstly acknowledge my appreciation to Professor Stephen Page, series editor for Advances in Tourism Research and external monitor for Waiariki Institute of Technology’s Bachelor of Tourism degree programme, where I was previously a member of the teaching team. As an emerging academic I learned much from Stephen’s candid and practical approach to tourism theory and pedagogy. During the same period I benefited immensely from the mentoring of Professor Chris Ryan at the University of Waikato. I am also indebted to ...