Determinants of tourist arrivals in European Mediterranean countries: Analysis of competitiveness

Martí, Luisa; Puertas, Rosa

doi:10.54055/ejtr.v15i.267

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“…The destination remains a favorite vacation place for British tourists who represent 40.0% of the total inbound tourist market of Crete (SETE 2020; Stylos and Bellou 2019). With regard to tourist characteristics, Crete is a popular destination for families with children (42.0%), couples (38.0%), and singles (20.0%) (Marti and Puertas, 2017). Traditionally, younger tourists (18–45 = 71.0%) tend to seek out the destination more than older tourists (46+ = 29.0%) (Andriotis 2011; Bellou and Andronikidis 2009).…”

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Exploring the Influence of Touch Points on Tourist Experiences at Crisis Impacted Destinations

Krey

Dieck

et al. 2021

Journal of Travel Research

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Customer journeys in tourism are becoming more complex, often including multiple touch points that can influence expectations, experiences, and travel behaviors. The management of these different interactions is further complicated if tourist destinations face natural or man-made crises (e.g., financial crises, COVID-19). The current research takes a comprehensive look at how negative word-of-mouth (WOM) shapes pre-consumption expectations that drive actual tourist experiences and subsequent satisfaction behaviors. Using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), findings from 188 tourists confirm the influence of uncontrollable, negative WOM on destination image. Yet an actual, positive experience negates these negative pre-trip influences. Tourism managers are rewarded with satisfied and loyal tourists in response to creating positive experiences even at crisis impacted destinations.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Influence of Touch Points on Tourist Experiences at Crisis Impacted Destinations

Krey

Dieck

et al. 2021

Journal of Travel Research

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“…Although the TTCI has been praised for its criteria, the current literature still discusses methodological improvement continuously. For example, evaluating a TC, a comprehensive methodology is proposed, which ranges from linear regression (Sánchez & López, 2015) to gravity equations (Marti & Puertas, 2016), and the use of multi-criteria decision-making techniques as TOPSIS (Zhang et al, 2011). However, most studies have mainly used regression analysis to explain the pillars and sub-index (Das & Dirienzo, 2010; Ivanov & Webster, 2013; Lee, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Developing an Evaluation Model for Monitoring Country-Based Tourism Competitiveness

Liu

Chiang

2021

SAGE Open

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Using pillars and sub-index from the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (T & TCI) to measure a destination’s competitiveness is popular. Still, its methodology underlying the calculation has been criticized. So the T&TCI Index has not been regarded as a reliable measure of a destination’s competitiveness. In this regard, this paper sought to set out a country-based tourism competitiveness evaluation model with various statistical methods to indicate how important tourism policy development has to design. We used data from an expert survey to examine the attributes and sub-attributes and shape the decision-making. We addressed a theoretical six-step procedure to ensure the evaluation model’s rigor in the model development context. The first was to do data collection. The second was to examine construct underrepresentation. The third was to examine common method bias. The fourth was to examine construct-irrelevant variances. The fifth was to evaluate intergroup consistency. And the sixth was to develop attribute weight. Our study showed that a country-based tourism competitiveness evaluation model encompassed 8 attributes and 28 sub-attributes. We identified cultural uniqueness, ecology and the environment as the two most important attributes. In the end, we addressed the practical contributions of this study and methods to policy-makers and researchers.

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“…The determinants of tourist arrivals have been debated by previous studies (Khanalizadeh et al, 2018;Marti and Puertas, 2017;Muryani et al, 2020;Naudé and Saayman, 2005). Their mixed findings are dependent on their countries of study.…”

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“…Based on the gravity framework, Marti and Puertas (2017) examined several determinants of tourist arrivals in European Mediterranean countries. The determinants consist of the distance between origin and destination countries, economic growth in the origin country and in the destination country, the population of the origin country and the destination country, the travel and tourism competitiveness index, and dummy variables including border, official language, second language, colony, etc.…”

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The Impact of Violent Crime on Tourist Arrivals in Malaysia

SHAARI¹,

RAFEI²,

NANGLE³

et al. 2022

GTG

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The tourism industry plays an important role in boosting economic growth, providing job opportunities, and reducing the poverty rates in many countries. For this reason, the factors influencing tourism should be investigated, to ensure continued growth within the industry. Few studies had examined the effect of violent crime on tourist arrivals and price competitiveness in Malaysia. An increasing criminal activity and a rise in prices may discourage tourism arrivals. This paper applies an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model to estimate Malaysia's determinants of tourism arrivals, on the period from 1986 to 2016. Tourism demand is modeled as a function of economic growth, tourism accommodation, prices (proxied by exchange rates and inflation), unemployment, and the crime index to proxy criminal activity in Malaysia. The results showed that inflation can reduce the number of tourists in the long run and in the short run. Similarly, the results also show that a higher exchange rate and violent crime index can reduce the number of tourists visiting Malaysia in the short run. Economic growth can attract more tourists to Malaysia in the long run.These findings are important for the formulation and implementation of policies. The Malaysian government should combat violent crime in the first place to prevent any reduction in tourist arrivals. Increasing government expenditure on national security could lead to a reduction in the violent crime index, thus increasing the number of tourist arrivals in Malaysia.

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Determinants of tourist arrivals in European Mediterranean countries: Analysis of competitiveness

Cited by 18 publications

References 8 publications

Exploring the Influence of Touch Points on Tourist Experiences at Crisis Impacted Destinations

Exploring the Influence of Touch Points on Tourist Experiences at Crisis Impacted Destinations

Developing an Evaluation Model for Monitoring Country-Based Tourism Competitiveness

The Impact of Violent Crime on Tourist Arrivals in Malaysia

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