GLOBAL COMPETITIVE POSITIONING OF UZBEKISTAN’S TOURISM SECTOR: A DISTANCE-TO-FRONTIER DIAGNOSIS ACROSS THIRTEEN DEVELOPMENT PILLARS

B. Sobirov

GREEN ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT, 2026, vol. 4, issue 5

Abstract: Aggregate competitiveness rankings indicate a destination’s overall standing, but not where, and by howmuch, it falls short of attainable global performance. This study applies a distance-to-frontier methodology to positionUzbekistan’s tourism sector against the global best-in-class on each of the thirteen Travel and Tourism Development Indexpillars, using Uzbekistan’s 2024 global ranks and pillar indices benchmarked against the highest-scoring economy on everypillar. Uzbekistan attains an overall index of 3.76 (global rank: 78), but the pillar-level diagnosis reveals that its largestabsolute distances from the frontier are observed mainly in the resource-related and tourism-service pillars: the gap tothe frontier is widest for cultural resources (3.19 points, versus Italy), natural resources (3.03, versus Mexico), and touristserviceinfrastructure (2.80, versus Cyprus). Conversely, the smallest distances arise in human resources, environmentalsustainability, and price competitiveness, where the global frontier itself is comparatively compressed. The analysisreframes the competitiveness agenda from closing relative peer gaps to valorizing underexploited resource endowmentsand upgrading service infrastructure toward attainable international benchmarks, and it supplies a transparent, pillarspecifictarget-setting instrument.

Keywords: tourism competitiveness; distance to frontier; benchmarking; TTDI; global ranking; Uzbekistan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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