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Regional Spanish Tourism Competitiveness: A DEA-MONITUR approach
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Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyse the regional tourist competitiveness performance in Spain. We use the seven pillars of tourism from a very detailed and complete database compiled by the Spanish Government - MoniTUR 2010 as primary data. Thus, we calculate a DEA-MONITUR regional tourist competiti... view more
The aim of this paper is to analyse the regional tourist competitiveness performance in Spain. We use the seven pillars of tourism from a very detailed and complete database compiled by the Spanish Government - MoniTUR 2010 as primary data. Thus, we calculate a DEA-MONITUR regional tourist competitiveness index in order to compare and rank the total 17 Spanish Autonomous Communities using data envelopment analysis (DEA). Our results show how this performance is very different among regions, and the position of each of the laggard Autonomous Communities should be analysed by their respective destination management organizations (DMOs) in order to envisage adequate corrective measures.... view less
Keywords
Spain; tourism; competitiveness; regional comparison; benchmarking; tourism policy
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Economic Sectors
Free Keywords
DEA; regional tourist competitiveness; destination management organizations; MoniTUR; virtual efficiency
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 153-173
Journal
Region: the journal of ERSA, 4 (2017) 3
ISSN
2409-5370
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed