ABSTRACT
The cross-cutting nature of tourism makes it a prime field for examining the relationships between a socio-economic sector activity and territorial regulations. A tourism destination is a complete package combining a supply of accommodation, recreation, transport and other services. It involves a large and highly diverse range of stakeholders. This chapter focuses on the place of stakeholders in tourism destination management models in general. It also places special emphasis on the territorial aspects of tourism and the way in which sectoral and territorial stakeholders interact. The chapter establishes the respective legitimacies and roles of these two types of stakeholders as well as that of a unifying stakeholder, the Organisme Local de Tourisme' (OLT, Local Tourism Organisation). It proposes and uses a framework based on the strategic theory of organisations, which calls on several major approaches. These are positioning, resources and competencies and stakeholders.
