A framework for island destination competitiveness – perspectives from the island of Malta

Ernest Azzopardi and Robert Nash

Current Issues in Tourism, 2016, vol. 19, issue 3, 253-281

Abstract: This paper identifies a set of factors that determines tourism destination competitiveness (TDC) on the island of Malta. It presents an overview of a proposed destination competitiveness framework grounded in the research participants' perspective. It proposes a model portraying the various categories and components and how they connect to competitiveness. Thirty-five qualitative in-depth interviews are conducted with key “experts” in tourism. It emerges from the participants' description that sixty tourism-specific and business-related determinants provide a broad framework for assessing TDC on the island of Malta. The framework serves to reveal the dynamic complexity of destination competitiveness which is perceived as a means to ensuring prosperity for individual stakeholders and society at large.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2015.1025723

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