Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adina Andra Triandafil Author-Name-First: Adina Andra Author-Name-Last: Triandafil Author-Email: adina.andra@gmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Marketing, Romania Author-Name: Alexandra Cristina Dinu Author-Name-First: Alexandra Cristina Author-Name-Last: Dinu Author-Email: alexandracristina.dinu@mk.ase.ro Author-Workplace-Name: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Marketing, Romania Author-Name: Florina Puie (Răzvanță) Author-Name-First: Florina Author-Name-Last: Puie (Răzvanță) Author-Email: florina.puie@gmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Business Administration, Romania Author-Name: Ana Șerbănescu Author-Name-First: Ana Author-Name-Last: Șerbănescu Author-Email: ana_serbanescu@hotmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Business Administration, Romania Title: Destination Management Organizations: A Systematization Of Recent Literature With A Focus On New Research Trends Journal: CACTUS - The Tourism Journal for Research, Education, Culture and Soul Abstract: Although the notion of destination management organization remains a particularly prolific and attractive concept, being extensively addressed in the last 20 years, there is no consensus at an academic level on how it can be operationalized. Much less empirically, little attempts have been developed in order to attain comprehensive ways of optimizing the activity of such organizations. The tendency for this concept to be associated with destination brand management is not necessarily representative, and by no means exhaustive. The present paper aims to highlight a series of definitions in this regard in the first part, following that in practice, to carry out a meta-analysis of recent literature, in order to identify the areas where Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) can be developed. Thus, we consider the exploration of different DMOs' analyses, within the Scopus (Elsevier) and Springer international databases which have published research in this regard in the past 2 years (2020-2021). Keywords: Destination management organizations; tourism brand management; DMOs meta-analysis Classification-JEL: Z32, C18, D20 Creation-Date: 2021 Year: 2021 Volume: 24 Issue: 1 File-URL: https://cactus-journal-of-tourism.ase.ro/Pdf/vol_3_2/Triandafil_et_al.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bum:cactus:cactus-2021-16