Cultural resources as a factor in cultural tourism attraction

Luis César Herrero and Mafalda Gómez-Vega
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Mafalda Gómez-Vega: University of Valladolid, Spain

Tourism Economics, 2017, vol. 23, issue 2, 260-280

Abstract: The article involves a study along the line of performance analysis of tourist destinations, yet taking the regions as territorial units and cultural tourism as a tourist flow to be explored. The aim of this study is therefore to evaluate the technical efficiency of regions in attracting greater flows of cultural tourism considering their own cultural resources available in the medium term. The analysis will be carried out at a regional disaggregation level in Spain, and one hypothetical production function will be designed to link cultural resources and demand. We adopt a two-stage procedure to evaluate regional efficiency as cultural destinations: first, measuring performance by non-parametric methods; and second, analysing how other external variables might determine these efficiency ratios. In this case, we consider indicators representing reputation, accessibility, the omnivorous nature of cultural tourism as well as the scope to the regional cultural sector. The findings of this research have implications for economic development and regional disparity analysis and may also prove to be of potential interest vis-Ã -vis economic policy.

Keywords: cultural tourism; data envelopment analysis; tourist destinations; performance of cultural efficiency analysis; regional analysis; two-stage procedures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/1354816616656248

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