Towards a Sustainable Tourism Competitiveness Measurement Model for Municipalities: Brazilian Empirical Evidence

This study aims to contribute to sustainable tourism destination competitiveness research by proposing a systemic model for identifying the factors that impact Brazilian municipalities’ ability to create and integrate value-added tourism products to meet the needs of local communities and visitors...

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Main Author: Simone Alves
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Investigación Social y Turismo 2015-10-01
Series:PASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural
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Online Access:http://ojsull.webs.ull.es/index.php/Revista/article/view/897
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description This study aims to contribute to sustainable tourism destination competitiveness research by proposing a systemic model for identifying the factors that impact Brazilian municipalities’ ability to create and integrate value-added tourism products to meet the needs of local communities and visitors and maintain the tourism competitiveness in domestic tourism market. It proposes that the available destination competitiveness models can be divided into three groups: i) aggregate indices; ii) conceptual and descriptive; and iii) explanatory and predictive. Six sustainable tourism competitiveness determinant factors were formulated: Tourism Infrastructure, Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure, Education, Heritage and Culture, Socioeconomic Development and Environmental Preservation. Four dependent factors related to tourism activity success were also postulated: Tourism Flow, Jobs, Wages and Revenue. All constructs were based on secondary indicators collected from public statistical sources from Brazil’s 5,565 municipalities; 2010 was used as the base year. The theoretical model was tested using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).  
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spelling doaj.art-40b43281ddd14e62998f81de963a19dd2022-12-22T04:11:40ZengInstituto de Investigación Social y TurismoPASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural1695-71212015-10-0113610.25145/j.pasos.2015.13.093Towards a Sustainable Tourism Competitiveness Measurement Model for Municipalities: Brazilian Empirical EvidenceSimone Alves This study aims to contribute to sustainable tourism destination competitiveness research by proposing a systemic model for identifying the factors that impact Brazilian municipalities’ ability to create and integrate value-added tourism products to meet the needs of local communities and visitors and maintain the tourism competitiveness in domestic tourism market. It proposes that the available destination competitiveness models can be divided into three groups: i) aggregate indices; ii) conceptual and descriptive; and iii) explanatory and predictive. Six sustainable tourism competitiveness determinant factors were formulated: Tourism Infrastructure, Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure, Education, Heritage and Culture, Socioeconomic Development and Environmental Preservation. Four dependent factors related to tourism activity success were also postulated: Tourism Flow, Jobs, Wages and Revenue. All constructs were based on secondary indicators collected from public statistical sources from Brazil’s 5,565 municipalities; 2010 was used as the base year. The theoretical model was tested using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).   http://ojsull.webs.ull.es/index.php/Revista/article/view/897Sustainable tourismCompetitivinesssStructural equation modelingFormative constructDestination compettivenessMeasurement model
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Towards a Sustainable Tourism Competitiveness Measurement Model for Municipalities: Brazilian Empirical Evidence
PASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural
Sustainable tourism
Competitivinesss
Structural equation modeling
Formative construct
Destination compettiveness
Measurement model
title Towards a Sustainable Tourism Competitiveness Measurement Model for Municipalities: Brazilian Empirical Evidence
title_full Towards a Sustainable Tourism Competitiveness Measurement Model for Municipalities: Brazilian Empirical Evidence
title_fullStr Towards a Sustainable Tourism Competitiveness Measurement Model for Municipalities: Brazilian Empirical Evidence
title_full_unstemmed Towards a Sustainable Tourism Competitiveness Measurement Model for Municipalities: Brazilian Empirical Evidence
title_short Towards a Sustainable Tourism Competitiveness Measurement Model for Municipalities: Brazilian Empirical Evidence
title_sort towards a sustainable tourism competitiveness measurement model for municipalities brazilian empirical evidence
topic Sustainable tourism
Competitivinesss
Structural equation modeling
Formative construct
Destination compettiveness
Measurement model
url http://ojsull.webs.ull.es/index.php/Revista/article/view/897
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