Tourism management models: critical view from different perspectives

Abstract

In recent years, many tourism management models have materialized in research and in practice. The growth of interest in this topic reflects the concern for the development of tourism and the need to manage it effectively to ensure that destinations are sustainable and competitive. The scientific usefulness of the models is made concrete by becoming instruments that underpin management actions and facilitate the adequate understanding of the complexity and multidimensionality of the tourist phenomenon and its projection over time. The development of intervention programs to organize, organize, change, anticipate and prevent events whether physical, natural, social or cultural. This article aims to reflect on some theoretical - methodological issues related to tourism management models from different perspectives. In its elaboration methods of investigation of the theoretical level were used that allowed the processing of the information, the characterization of the object of investigation, and the determination of the theoretical and methodological foundations. The conclusion highlights the great relevance of the models in general and for tourism management for its ability to simplify complex situations or phenomena. They constitute a means of scientific thought, and a peculiar way of abstracting and reproducing in a simplified way reality fulfilling a heuristic function by allowing to discover and study new relationships and qualities of the object of study.