Issues for discussion include the benefits and drawbacks of collaboration marketing, the internal processes, resource implications and external impacts of collaboration marketing, and the challenge of managing parallel competitive and collaborative marketing strategies. Tourism Marketing: A Collaborative Approach offers a strategic marketing framework for application in interorganisational settings within the tourism industry. The existing marketing paradigm is questioned in an industry where rarely does any one organisation own or control all elements of the tourism product.
Both Alan Fyall and Brian Garrod have published widely in the area of tourism. Together, they have recently edited the book Managing Visitor Attractions: New Directions with Anna Leask, while Brian has also edited the book Marine Ecotourism: Issues and Experiences with Julie C. Wilson, published by Channel View Publications.