Are Partnerships Enhancing Tourism Destination Competitiveness?

Diana Kvasnová, Tomáš Gajdošík and Vanda Maráková
Additional contact information
Diana Kvasnová: Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Národná 12, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Tomáš Gajdošík: Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Národná 12, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Vanda Maráková: Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Národná 12, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2019, vol. 67, issue 3, 811-821

Abstract: The competitiveness and networking in tourism destinations is a well discussed topic among tourism scholars. However, the influence of partnerships of destination stakeholders on tourism competitiveness is under-researched. This paper contributes to the recent debate on partnerships and tourism destination competitiveness, including the gargantuan compilations of competitiveness factors by Ritchie and Crouch (2003), or Dwyer and Kim (2003), by examining the link among these two variables. The central question underlying this paper is whether partnerships of private and public sector stakeholders contribute to the destination competitiveness. The analysis is based on the quantification of destinations' competitiveness in Slovakia and the level of partnership by the creation of the partnership index. The paper concludes that the level of partnership positively affects the destination competitiveness.

Keywords: competitiveness; destination management organization; governance; partnership; stakeholders; tourism destination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://acta.mendelu.cz/doi/10.11118/actaun201967030811.html (text/html)
http://acta.mendelu.cz/doi/10.11118/actaun201967030811.pdf (application/pdf)
free of charge

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mup:actaun:actaun_2019067030811

DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967030811

Access Statistics for this article

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis is currently edited by Markéta Havlásková

More articles in Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis from Mendel University Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Ivo Andrle ().