Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/120382 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
51st Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "New Challenges for European Regions and Urban Areas in a Globalised World", 30 August - 3 September 2011, Barcelona, Spain
Publisher: 
European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Louvain-la-Neuve
Abstract: 
The development of a region is subject to its ability to attract business activities and the right blend of people to run them. This ability depends on a number of factors and previous research as well as historical evidence show that the region's location is a key factor among them. Hence, isolated regions are at a disadvantage in attracting business activities adversely affected by geographical discontinuity and they should focus on specific activities. Tourism is such an activity for which geographical discontinuity is not a barrier, but on the contrary it may be an advantage. Hence, tourism may act as a driving force for the development of isolated regions. On the basis of the above, a region may become a competitive tourism destination, provided of course that it possesses a number of characteristics. An overview of the literature reveals that most of the studies referring to tourism destinations focus on the attraction of tourists, i.e. the demand side and very few on the attraction of tourism industry, i.e. the supply side. Our objective in this paper is to identify the factors (both supply and demand) affecting a tourism destination, suggest ways of measuring them and define the Image of the tourism destination, i.e. a measure of its attractiveness, as a function of those factors. Finally, the theoretical findings will be applied to a number of tourism destinations.
Subjects: 
Regional development
isolated regions
tourism
tourism destination
Image of a tourism destination
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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