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A Measure of Polarization for Tourism: Evidence from Italian Destinations

Raffaele Scuderi

subject

Hierarchical agglomerative clusteringSet (abstract data type)Index (economics)Polarization (politics)EconometricsAxiomatic systemBusinessDestinationsMarketingMeasure (mathematics)Tourism

description

This paper proposes an index of polarization for tourism which links the axiomatic theory of Esteban and Ray with the classical hierarchical agglomerative clustering techniques. The index is aimed at analyzing the dynamics of the average length of stay across Italian destinations, and more specifically to detect whether the polarization within the set of clusters of places with similar values of the indicator has varied over time.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2011-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24466-7_60