ABSTRACT
This chapter aims particularly to contribute to an enhanced understanding the governance implications that are related to bringing resilience theories to tourism practice making use of results and lessons learned of research projects conducted by the author in the Netherlands. Resilience is generally understood as the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks. The chapter draws attention to and raising awareness about the magnitude of the ambition of building resilient tourism destinations and the importance of building resilience step by step over time. It highlights key conditions that can be derived from literature that are seen as important for building resilience. The chapter discusses the implications of bringing resilience theories to practice. The chapter elaborates a set of conditions that is needed for resilient tourism destinations and/or building resilience.
