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Place Branding—The Challenges of Getting It Right: Coping with Success and Rebuilding from Crises

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  • Heather Skinner

    (Institute of Place Management, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M15 6BH, UK)

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A focus on continued year-on-year economic growth was beginning to be seen as unsustainable even before the COVID-19 crisis forced many tourism destinations to rethink their marketing and branding. This paper adopts a critical marketing stance to explore the relationship between place branding and two recent extreme conditions affecting the tourism industry: overtourism, as exemplified when the issue became headline news in popular media from the summer of 2017, as many examples were offered of places struggling to cope with their success; and the COVID-19 crisis that effectively brought global tourism to a standstill in 2020, as the industry attempts to rebuild from this current unprecedented crisis. This article is not designed to suggest normative place-branding strategies. Rather, through the presentation of an original model that conceptualizes the cyclical process of rebuilding from crises and coping with success, it aims to provide a warning that whatever place-branding strategies are implemented in a post-pandemic world, for whatever type of tourism, in whatever type of destination, a rein must be employed in order that the drive for recovery from undertourism through successful place branding does not lead to the return of overtourism.

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  • Heather Skinner, 2021. "Place Branding—The Challenges of Getting It Right: Coping with Success and Rebuilding from Crises," Tourism and Hospitality, MDPI, vol. 2(1), pages 1-17, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jtourh:v:2:y:2021:i:1:p:10-189:d:518669
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