Competition among European Tourist Cities: A Comparative Analysis with Multidimensional Scaling and Self-Organizing Maps

Josef A. Mazanec
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Josef A. Mazanec: Institute for Tourism and Leisure Studies, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Augasse 2-6, A-1090 Vienna, Austria

Tourism Economics, 1995, vol. 1, issue 3, 283-302

Abstract: The tourism researcher's attention is drawn to the neurocomputing methodology of self-organizing maps (SOMs) SOMs can be used to find a radically parsimonious representation of multidimensional profile data. The properties of an SOM network are explored in a case study on the competitive relationships between European cities as tourist destinations. SOM results are compared with a conventional INDSCAL model. The database consists of the guest mix profiles of 26 major tourist cities between 1975 and 1992.

Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1177/135481669500100305

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