[PDF] Top 20 Influential factors in the competitiveness of mature tourism destinations

... one of its weakness lies in that it is a purely descriptive ...regardless of how elaborate the concept-definition systems may be, they cannot provide explanations for observable ...include ... See full document

... cross-cutting factors [88] that can affect tourist destinations more intensively (hard effect) or less intensively (soft effect), “in relation to the importance of ICT systems as key ... See full document

... for tourism is a recent matter. Until 1920, tourism was seen as a leisure and recreational activity outside the governmental sphere (Heriques, ...decade, tourism started to be part of ... See full document

... In the case of well-known destinations, the tourist promotion is planned and financed through the collaboration and the partnership between the public sector and ... See full document

... total of twenty-four interviews were carried out across the different stakeholder groups, including fifteen local surfers and nine business owners, distributed as shown in Table ...Twenty-two ... See full document

... In the third contribution, Fuentes-Medina, Hernádez-Estárico and Morini-Marrero investigate the critical success factors and the value chain of emblematic ...hotels. The ... See full document

... suggesting the need for a systematic approach to the tourism sector, although it still excludes from tourism the activities related to business or ...congresses. In 1974, ... See full document

... about the tourism distribution system, using the calculation and analysis of indicators and financial ratios, as part of this sector companies’ performance ...evaluation. In this ... See full document

... achievement of sustainability for tourism destinations is only possible if a comprehensive and inclusive form of planning is adopted, and effective networks and partnerships between ... See full document

... characteristic of the model is that it emphasizes the combination of determinants in order to achieve ...set of agents that promote pressures on other determinant elements, so ... See full document

... and mature demand that does not usually search for pre-assembled package tours from traditional ...inside the destination and, consequently, to a more coordinated promotion of the ...resources ... See full document

... immersed in a very uncertain and highly competitive ...heterogeneous, in- separable and perishable nature (Kandampully et al., 2008). The customer’s experiences and satisfaction with this service ... See full document

... has the highest Ivanovic's Discrimination Coefficient ...to the Gini Index as de- scribed in the methodology ...section. The same occurs with “Natural resources ”, which has the ... See full document

... but the four-cluster solution seemed to be the most appropriate. The F ratios that describe the differences between the clusters were ...computed. The observed significance ... See full document

... Second the results show the first evidences of the human travel evolution network, re- sponsible for about 10% of world’s domestic ...being tourism a sector that developed with ... See full document

... war tourism tours in the world are regarded as opportunity for glorification of the defendant combatants in each country and protect ting their beliefs while there are regarded ... See full document

... receiving tourism, the factors and the support resources, as the name shows, provide the foundations on which a tourist activity of success can be ...wealth of ... See full document

... one of the sectors with the greatest potential for expansion on a global scale and hence conveying the importance of attempting to better understand the regional factors ... See full document

... is the company and not the country that compete in the international market; however the success of the company can be explained by the economic environment, ... See full document

... potentials in Iran, which could absorb special types of tourism in the country especially those who are interested in visiting religious, historical or cultural ...involved ... See full document