Residents’ attitudes towards different tourist offers: Maldonado-Punta del Este conurbation (Uruguay)
The study of residents' attitudes is fundamental for tourist destinations managers. Residents form their attitude towards tourism through a cost-benefit analysis based on their perception of tourism impacts. The objective of this paper is to analyse the relationship between the perception of th...
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| description | The study of residents' attitudes is fundamental for tourist destinations managers. Residents form their attitude towards tourism through a cost-benefit analysis based on their perception of tourism impacts. The objective of this paper is to analyse the relationship between the perception of the different types of impacts, the general attitude toward tourism and various types of tourism offer: sport tourism, maritime tourism, nature tourism and sun and beach tourism. The analysis of the data was performed using Partial Least Squares on a sample of 420 residents of the Maldonado-Punta del Este conurbation, interviewed in 2016. The strongest causal relationship is between general attitude and acceptance of sun and beach tourism, the traditional offer in the region. The main conclusion is that a more favourable attitude to tourism does not imply greater support for any type of tourism. It is not possible to generalize the support to tourism to any tourism project, and tourist destinations managers must take it into account. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-61e9d22ab3be4d08b1bd8281f5a113062022-12-22T02:48:50ZengUniversity of A CorunaEuropean Journal of Government and Economics2254-70882019-06-018110.17979/ejge.2019.8.1.4580Residents’ attitudes towards different tourist offers: Maldonado-Punta del Este conurbation (Uruguay)José Ramón Cardona0Daniel Álvarez Bassi1María Dolores Sánchez-Fernández2Universitat de les Illes Balears, SpainCentro de Investigaciones en Marketing y Turismo, Universidad Católica del Uruguay, UruguayUniversidade da Coruña, SpainThe study of residents' attitudes is fundamental for tourist destinations managers. Residents form their attitude towards tourism through a cost-benefit analysis based on their perception of tourism impacts. The objective of this paper is to analyse the relationship between the perception of the different types of impacts, the general attitude toward tourism and various types of tourism offer: sport tourism, maritime tourism, nature tourism and sun and beach tourism. The analysis of the data was performed using Partial Least Squares on a sample of 420 residents of the Maldonado-Punta del Este conurbation, interviewed in 2016. The strongest causal relationship is between general attitude and acceptance of sun and beach tourism, the traditional offer in the region. The main conclusion is that a more favourable attitude to tourism does not imply greater support for any type of tourism. It is not possible to generalize the support to tourism to any tourism project, and tourist destinations managers must take it into account.http://revistas.udc.es/index.php/ejge/article/view/4580tourist offerattitudesPunta del EsteUruguay |
| spellingShingle | José Ramón Cardona Daniel Álvarez Bassi María Dolores Sánchez-Fernández Residents’ attitudes towards different tourist offers: Maldonado-Punta del Este conurbation (Uruguay) European Journal of Government and Economics tourist offer attitudes Punta del Este Uruguay |
| title | Residents’ attitudes towards different tourist offers: Maldonado-Punta del Este conurbation (Uruguay) |
| title_full | Residents’ attitudes towards different tourist offers: Maldonado-Punta del Este conurbation (Uruguay) |
| title_fullStr | Residents’ attitudes towards different tourist offers: Maldonado-Punta del Este conurbation (Uruguay) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Residents’ attitudes towards different tourist offers: Maldonado-Punta del Este conurbation (Uruguay) |
| title_short | Residents’ attitudes towards different tourist offers: Maldonado-Punta del Este conurbation (Uruguay) |
| title_sort | residents attitudes towards different tourist offers maldonado punta del este conurbation uruguay |
| topic | tourist offer attitudes Punta del Este Uruguay |
| url | http://revistas.udc.es/index.php/ejge/article/view/4580 |
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