A destination management organization (DMO) is a common type of formal organization that serves a tourist destination. DMOs have responsibility and accountability for a range of different management processes. Those processes enable destination stakeholders to co-create tourist experiences and to deal with the resulting positive and negative effects. By public and/or private mandate, DMOs thus support tourists, tourism businesses and other tourism stakeholders within the geographic scope of a destination. Other tourism stakeholders include individuals, groups and entities such as second-home owners, special interest group associations, local residents, government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), transport and utility service providers and the like. The geographic area of responsibility and intended effect of a DMO reaches from the local to the regional and on to the national level. DMOs across all levels are supporting destinations in most parts of the world. While there are no official statistics estimates suggest that their worldwide number exceeds 10 000.