Public Management and the Development of Smart Tourism Destinations

Abstract

The present article aimed to determine the relationship between Public Management and the Development of Smart Tourism Destinations. Understanding this relationship is essential to build tourism management models that respond to the current challenges of the sector, promote territorial innovation, and ensure long-term inclusive and sustainable development. This is a non-experimental, causal-explanatory research of a cross-sectional nature with a quantitative approach. The study was conducted on a nonrandom sample of 108 students from the Faculty of Business Sciences of the Private University of Tacna. A questionnaire with a Likert scale measurement scale was administered. The instrument was validated using the Crombach Alpha method, with the following values: (0.811) for Public Management and (0.905) for Smart Tourism Destination Development. The results indicate a moderate-high relationship (C=0.505) between Public Management and the Development of Smart  tourism Destinations. It is concluded that there is statistical evidence confirming that Public Management and the Development of Smart Tourism Destinations are significantly related.