The fifth Advances in Destination Management Forum convened 47 international tourism experts from June 8.-10 in Kalmar, Sweden. Alongside classic destination marketing and management topics, destination resilience and sustainability were key issues discussed throughout the forum in light of the recent pandemic experience. Destination development practitioners encouraged the assembled scholars to contextualize their models and tools for application in the global North and South.

The fourth Advances in Destination Management Forum convened 36 international tourism experts from June 12.-15. in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Alongside classic destination marketing and management topics, overtourism and digitalization were key issues discussed throughout the forum. Discussants and an expert panel concluded that digital business models in tourism have been foremost data-driven rather than sustainability-focused to address pressing concerns. While digitalization contributes to a richer landscape of available data, there are still limits as to how data is used and understood to produce actionable advice.

"The third ADM forum crossed the Atlantic and assembled an international group of tourism professionals and researchers from June 17–19, 2016 in Vail, Colorado.. [...] From an attitude perspective, discussions in 2016 continued to reflect the previous (self-) critical attitude toward the present state of research and practice in destination management and marketing. Moreover, the underlying drivers (i.e. increased competition, complex and diverse business context and diminishing finances for many traditional destination actors) remained unchallenged. The same is true for the shared concern about producing rigorous research that results in workable advice for the practice of destination marketing and management across all presented topical domains." (Reinhold, Laesser, & Beritelli, 2017, JDMM)

"Following the success of the first forum of this kind, a second ADM forum followed in June 11–13, 2014, again in St.Gallen. [...] Overall, discussions revealed a more (self-)critical attitude toward the state of the practice in and research on destination management and marketing than the first consensus in 2012. [... T]he impulse to scrutinize different domains of destination management is coming from two directions: first, the observation of how destinations and
their actors struggle to address the complexity of their business as their context changes, and second, the acknowledgement of limitations of existing research in terms of concepts, tools, and some of the underlying beliefs." (Reinhold, Laesser, & Beritelli, 2015, JDMM)

"[F]rom 6 to 8 June 2012, about 40 scholars from four continents, along with numerous practitioners from central Europe, met in St.Gallen, Switzerland, for the first Biannual Forum ‘Advances in Destination Management'. Myriad associations and propositions emerged from their submissions to the conference, as well as through extensive discussions. These discourses were collected and summarized, then tabled for discussion with the delegates.The outcome of this process is the first St.Gallen Consensus on Destination Management." (Laesser & Beritelli, 2013, JDMM)