Spanish Smart Tourism Destinations: Final Considerations and Future Lines of Work

In the course of development of tourism policy in Spain, there has been a succession of different models of destination planning, fundamentally from the 1990s onward with the creation of the Tourism Excellence and Dynamization Plans, which reinforced the importance of strategic vision and local scale in tourism planning. Smart Tourism Destinations (DTI) constitute the most recent reference model and present good prospects for future developments. This paper gathers and expands on a series of reflections from previous work on the consolidation of DTI as a strategic planning and management model, identifying its contributions as well as its weaknesses and limitations, and concluding with a proposal for future lines of work.