The market of companies providing tourist information services for Spanish public administrations in the period 2018-2022

Carlos Garulo

International Journal of Procurement Management, 2025, vol. 24, issue 2, 260-277

Abstract: The public administration resorts to outsourcing tourist information services when it does not have its own means to provide them adequately. The aim of this research is to analyse the market of companies that have participated in the tendering processes for tourist information services in Spain in the period 2018-2022, in order to understand the profile of companies currently managing this service and the types of tendering processes that have been carried out. The data suggest a positive trend towards the outsourcing of these services, as well as a predominance of diverse criteria (both qualitative and quantitative), and a higher success rate of companies specialised in culture and/or tourism, followed by other types of companies and multi-service firms. A total of 257 tenders were analysed, with 217 different bidders, and 98 of them were awarded contracts.

Keywords: outsourcing; services; public procurement; Spanish tenders; tourist information. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=148609 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

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:ids:ijpman:v:24:y:2025:i:2:p:260-277

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Procurement Management from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Parker ().