Resumo: This theoretical essay aims to identify, from the standpoint of touristic market structure, the influence caused by macro-environmental factors in the management and planning of tourist destinations (TDs). The idea defended here is that the position of the tourist destination in the external environment affects its possibilities of growing, organizing and development. Through a theoretical, inductive, survey it was identified an arrangement of external factors that can affect the decisions and actions taken as within a TD. As result, it is presented a theoretical framework of environmental conditioning factors the tourism on local level from strategies based on the macro environmental analysis. These factors also bring, by extension, direct consequences for the planning of tourist destinations, affecting the possibilities of action, the resources that could be effectively used, as well as the markets to be achieved. In conclusion, we present an integrative and systemic framework, demonstrating its necessary consideration as an elementary prerequisite of the tourist destination planning process, because their disregard can do practicable whatever plan elaborated.
