Health and Hygiene Importance for the Improvement of Tourism Sector Competitiveness in Serbia and the South-eastern Europe Countries

Jovanović, Sonja; Janković–Milić, Vesna; Ilić, Ivana

doi:10.1016/s2212-5671(15)00038-6

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“…Firstly, with regard to the relationship from EG to TC, scholars have explored various influencing factors of TC, including the information and communications technology [17,18], globalisation [19], hotel industry [20], human resources [17], health and hygiene [21], environmental management [22], transportation [23], consumer protection legislation [24] and corruption [25]. By contrast, limited research has been performed in terms of economic impacts on the competitiveness of the tourism sector.…”

Section: Tc-eg Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Coupling Coordination Relationship between Tourism Competitiveness and Economic Growth of Developing Countries

Wang

Liu

2020

Sustainability

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On the basis of the coupling coordination degree (CCD) model and information entropy weight method, this study examined the relationship between tourism competitiveness and economic growth of 56 developing countries from 2008 to 2017. The results show that: (1) the overall status of the CCD between tourism competitiveness and economic growth was in a state of unbalance that was mainly caused by the lag of economic growth, which demonstrates the important contribution of tourism in developing regions. (2) the CCD has been gradually improving since 2008, and the differences amongst the CCDs of developing countries have been shrinking and (3) the spatial distribution of the CCD between tourism competitiveness and economic growth has heterogeneity.

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Section: Tc-eg Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Coupling Coordination Relationship between Tourism Competitiveness and Economic Growth of Developing Countries

Wang

Liu

2020

Sustainability

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“…Among the important factors that make a destination reliable for tourists are health and hygiene. Health care and sanitation are important elements for attracting tourists, representing a guarantee in disease prevention [51]. The health risks inherent, to a certain extent, during the journey and stay in a destination, can influence the tourists' perceptions about the risk and, therefore, the choice of destination and their tourist behavior [52].…”

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One managerial implication of these findings targets the tourism suppliers that should share updated and complete information on sanitary safety of a destination, and become more involved in interactive communication with tourists that are interested in obtaining additional information. The trust in the sanitary safety of a destination might increase its attractivity and confer on it an outstanding competitive advantage [51].…”

Section: Conclusion and Managerial Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Social Media in Health Safety Evaluation of a Tourism Destination throughout the Travel Planning Process

2020

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This research aims at identifying the role of social media in evaluating the attractiveness of a tourism destination, with special emphasis on the health safety of the destination. Consistent with this objective, a survey has been carried out on a sample of 675 Romanian social media users. The research results led to the development of a model based on structural equation modeling. The model includes nine latent variables that were structured taking into account different behavioral aspects related to the role social media has in travel planning, as well as for evaluating the health safety of a tourism destination. The main findings suggest that the trust in social media for tourism information made people become more interested in communicating through this means and to consider it more useful throughout the travel planning process. When choosing a travel destination, the more involved a tourist is in the decision making process, the greater the attention they pay to social media. The perceived usefulness of social media in travel planning has a significant influence on intentions to choose a tourism destination. As the importance assigned to the health safety of tourism destination increases, social media plays a more active role in travel by creating trust in this means in order to obtain sanitary safety information. People that intend to use social media for finding information on the health safety of a tourism destination are more likely to choose that destination for their vacation. The managerial implications of this paper regard the communication strategies adopted by tourism services suppliers or by some public authorities aimed at stimulating an efficient usage of social media so as to increase the buying intentions for tourism destinations.

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“…Therefore, in light of the above, for a tourist destination to be successful, the intervention of public authorities is necessary, stimulating the creation of goods and services, adding value to the destination, with the objective of remaining competitive in the market (Molina et al, 2014). For this purpose, the destination needs to be provided with public funds, in order to improve their competitiveness and attract a greater number of tourists (Jovanovic et al, 2015). In this sense, Costa (2003) highlights the concern about the successive budget deficits incurred by tourist destinations as a result of the assumption that the expenses derived from the provision of tourism goods and services exceed the income generated by tourism, causing a decrease in the quality of the provision of local public services and damaging the welfare of the resident population.…”

Section: Tourism Financingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Taxation of Tourism Activities: A Review of the Top 50 Tourism Destinations

Durán-Román

Garcı́a

Fernández

2020

REM

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Public authorities have played a key role in tourism competitiveness, as this agent is obliged to provide certain infrastructure and services. This has led to incurring certain additional costs that may be financed by contributions from the implementation of fiscal instruments. The objective of the present work is to identify the tourist taxes implemented in the 50 main world tourist destinations. To do this, different official, national and international sources have been consulted. Tourist taxes have been identified in 49 of the 50 main tourist destinations; and have been configured, therefore, as an effective instrument for obtaining the necessary financing.

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Health and Hygiene Importance for the Improvement of Tourism Sector Competitiveness in Serbia and the South-eastern Europe Countries

Cited by 24 publications

References 14 publications

The Coupling Coordination Relationship between Tourism Competitiveness and Economic Growth of Developing Countries

The Coupling Coordination Relationship between Tourism Competitiveness and Economic Growth of Developing Countries

The Role of Social Media in Health Safety Evaluation of a Tourism Destination throughout the Travel Planning Process

Taxation of Tourism Activities: A Review of the Top 50 Tourism Destinations

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