Tourism is regarded as one of the most novel and contemporary fields of governance research and practices. The efforts to define, assess, and explore destination governance have mainly been made in political science and business disciplines. However, destination governance distinguishes itself by its complex nature and context-related feature. Research in this area is mostly fragmented, lacking synergies in its definition, scope, and dimensions. This research plans to adopt a systematic quantitative review to investigate the status quo of knowledge and contributes to the current literature by summarizing significant aspects, discussing incongruity issues, identifying research gaps, and highlighting future research directions.