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Investigación internacional en marketing turístico: análisis de contenido sobre temas y metodologías
2008
Con los objetivos de (1) determinar los temas más recurrentes en la literatura de marketing turístico y su ámbito de aplicación, intentando identificar futuras líneas de investigación, y (2) analizar la orientación metodológica de los mismos, se realizó una investigación centrada en el análisis de contenido de 269 artículos de marketing turístico publicados en las principales revistas internacionales especializadas en el periodo 2004-2006. Los resultados obtenidos por tres jueces independientes destacan el papel central del comportamiento del turista, siendo las estrategias de marketing el segundo tema más estudiado. En cuanto al subsector, casi la mitad de los trabajos de marketing turísti…
Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making: An entropy-based approach to assess tourism sustainability
2019
In this article, we propose a method for ranking tourist destinations and evaluating their performances under a sustainability perspective: a fuzzy multiple criteria decision-making method is applied for determining sustainability performance values and ranking destinations accordingly. We select a set of sustainability evaluation criteria and use a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process to weight the selected criteria. We also optimize each evaluator’s membership function support by means of a fuzzy entropy maximization criteria. A case study is illustrated and results are compared with two data envelopment analysis–based models. The simplicity of the proposed approach along with the easy reada…
Air transport and tourism flows to islands: A panel analysis for southern European countries
2022
Air transport is an essential component of the tourism industry, and the number, frequency, and capacity of flight connections may influence the level of tourism demand, especially for island destinations. This paper evaluates the influence of air transport on tourism arrivals to selected islands in seven southern European Union countries to determine the nature of the relationship between tourist arrivals and air transport, specifically, whether air transport services generate tourism demand or merely enable touristic flows. The paper uses panel data and applies an econometric model with justifications for endogeneity and dynamic issues. Results show a moderate impact of transport infrastr…
Analysing Local Tourism. A Statistical Perspective.
2013
Sustainability and Competitiveness in the Tourism Industry and Tourist Destinations: A Bibliometric Study
2019
This article presents an analysis of the state of the art on the relationship between tourism, sustainability and competitiveness (TSC)
Sustainable Practices in Spanish Hotels: A Response to Concerns on Quality of Life in Highly Visited Tourism Areas
2018
The intense tourism activity may involve significant negative impacts on the quality of life in tourism destinations with a high number of tourist arrivals. The objective of this chapter is to explore the available tools and measures that hotels may implement to mitigate or cope with these negative economic, social and environmental impacts. An example of hotel managers’ perceptions of the importance of the main environmentally sustainable practices in hospitality to mitigate the negative impact of the tourist industry on the quality of life of residents in highly visited tourism destinations in the Mediterranean coast of Spain is provided, with the purpose of stimulating further research i…
Taxonomic notes on the genera Scatella and Scatophila (Diptera: Ephydridae) with a remark on Trixoscelis chilensis (Trixoscelididae).
2018
Two new combinations are proposed in Scatella for Ephydra australis Walker, 1853 and Opomyza guttata Macquart, 1843. Two species are resurrected from synonymy: Scatella lacustris (Meigen, 1830), revised status and Trixoscelis chilensis (Schiner, 1868), revised status (Trixoscelididae). Nine new synonyms are suggested: Scatella insularis Mathis & Wirth, 1981 = S. australis (Walker, 1853); S. lutosa nigripes Oldenberg, 1923 = S. obsoleta Loew, 1861; S. septempunctata Malloch, 1933 = S. gratiellae Canzoneri & Raffone, 1987 = S. septemfenestrata Lamb, 1912; S. tenuicosta Collin, 1930 = S. lacustris (Meigen, 1830); S. vulgata Cresson, 1931 = S. guttata (Macquart, 1843); Scatophila zlobin…
Ranking world tourist destinations with a composite indicator of competitiveness: To weigh or not to weigh?
2019
Abstract This paper contributes a weighted composite indicator of competitiveness for 136 world tourist destinations. To that end, Data Envelopment Analysis and Multi-Criteria-Decision-Making techniques are used with raw indicators from the 2017 edition of the Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum (WEF). An outstanding feature of our approach is that weights are endogenously generated. Furthermore, the role played by several variables in tourism competitiveness is assessed using truncated regression and bootstrapping. The ranking of world tourist destinations produced by our weighted composite indicator of competitiveness is, however, fairly similar to that der…
Evaluation of curcumin irreversibility
2019
Dear Editor,We would like to reply to the letter to the Editor of Steverding (2018) on our research article “Drug combination studies of curcumin and genistein against rhodesain of Trypanosoma bruc...
Short Term Dynamics of Tourist Arrivals: What Do Italian Destinations Have in Common?
2011
This work aims to detect the common short term dynamics to yearly time series of 413 Italian tourist areas. We adopt the clustering technique of Abraham et al. (Scand J Stat. 30:581–595, 2003) who propose a two-stage method which fits the data by B-splines and partitions the estimated model coefficients using a k-means algorithm. The description of each cluster, which identifies a specific kind of dynamics, is made through simple descriptive cross tabulations in order to study how the location of the areas across the regions or their prevailing typology of tourism characterize each group.