Leadership in tourist destinations’ competition and its social and economic impact

Abstract

Tourism is now more important than ever for successful, competitive and flexible destinations development. Countries actively market tourism both at national and international level. Tourism evolves and becomes recognized as an opportunity to bring wide ranging benefits to national and local economies and populations, increasingly integrated with state and destination economic planning, environment safety and community development. The analyses of the relationship between state system of regulation in tourism, administrative order and social and economic impact of constant tourism development in France - the world’s leading tourist destination - is presented. The leader influences competitive advantage through developing strategy, based on traditional organizational culture and supports innovations at all organizational levels.