Tourism Destination Competitiveness: Measurement Issues

Daria Mendola () and Serena Volo ()
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Serena Volo: School of Economics and Management - Free University of Bolzano, Italy.

No BEMPS23, BEMPS - Bozen Economics & Management Paper Series from Faculty of Economics and Management at the Free University of Bozen

Abstract: Composite indicators are a useful tool to synthetize and monitor multidimensional phenomena and in the last decade they are pervading several domains of tourism studies. This study includes a systematic review of destination competitiveness definitions, concepts and measures and the evaluation of existing composite indicators through the application of an enriched version of the OECD technical guideline to build composite indicators. The results and the knowledge gained through the analysis of the selected indicators provide tourism scholars and practitioners involved in measuring destinations’ competitiveness with both an assessment of available indicators´ ability to capture tourism competitiveness complexity and a statistical toolbox to assess their effectiveness in empirical evaluations.

Keywords: destination competitiveness; composite indicators; competitiveness determinants; tourism performance; index. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C18 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: [2 pages]
Date: 2015-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-eff and nep-tur
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