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Tourism Destination Competitiveness and Firm Performance through a Financial Crisis An Empirical Analysis of the Italian Hotel Industry
No full textIn the past decades, tourism destination competitiveness has gained significant
attention among researchers and policymakers (Dwyer et al., 2004); as a result of
the increase in international trade and global mobility, managers in the tourism
industry have developed strategies related to destination competitiveness in order to
gain a competitive advantage over other market participants. With regard to this,
competitiveness is considered as a “factor that makes a given destination attractive
to visitors and enhances the socio-cultural, economic and environmental benefits of tourism to the destination” (Armenska, 2011; Ritchie and Crouch, 2005; Vanhole,
2006; Wondowossen et al., 2014: 72). Hence, the prosperity of a place is directly
related to its competitiveness (Porter, 2008)
The Role of Partnerships in Staging Tourism Experiences: Evidence from a Festival
No full textMost of the studies conducted so far have tackled how individual companies and organizations can try to stage memorable experiences, almost neglecting how destinations or even aggregations of destinations can themselves stage memorable experiences. More specifically, extant literature has overlooked the role of partnerships between destination management organizations (DMOs) in developing novel tourism products able to trigger compelling tourist experiences. Building on the Pink Night festival case, this chapter bridges this gap, as we show that partnerships involving different local DMOs can be crucial in order to stage events taking place in a wide geographic area including different administrativeunits and empower the absorptive capability of the tourist experience. Last but not least, we innovatively recognize how partnerships between DMOs conjointly staging a tourist experience through an event could modify the comprehensive image held by tourists of the wider tourist area involved in the event itself, thus contributing to rebrand the individual destinations themselves. Unlike the ethnographic study carried out by Giovanardi et al. (2014) on the Pink Night festival, this study sheds light on the importance of the DMOs and their cooperation in order to develop a complex creative tourism product. In order to achieve the aforementioned objective, the chapter is structured as follows. In section 2, we present our twofold theoretical framework drawing on (a) the experience economy framework applied to tourism and (b) the role of destination partnerships. In section 3 we describe the empirical setting and introduce the case of the Pink Night festival. In section 4, we illustrate and discuss our research findings. In section 5 we provide our conclusions and implications, describe the limitations of the analysis and outline a research agenda related to the role of partnerships among DMOs in staging memorable tourist experiences
The Separation of the Naïve from the Reevaluated Destination Image by Using Benefit Segmentation and the Analysis of the Resulting Perceptions
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Content Analysis as a Research Tool for Marketing, Management and Development Strategies in Tourism
No full textAbstractMaturetourism destinations are dealing constantly with increased competition. Therefore, there is a growing need to identify their product's strengths and weaknesses and potential for differentiation. In order to reveal these elements to managers, through the eyes of the visitors, a detailed content analysis of open-ended survey items will be presented. The scope of this paper is to use content analysis as a research tool for studying tourism destinations, in order to support their efforts for a steady flow of arrivals. The open-ended survey items offer the opportunity to the respondents to express, to analyze and expand their opinions and thoughts. The paper is based on a situation analysis, using as a case Corfu Island and the opinions of its major income generating market, British tourists. The large sample size of the survey, n=376, which is stratified, gives a wide variety of answers, used for an expanded analys is. The findings offer implications for managers concerning investment priorities, product differentiation and marketing actions. The limited use of this approach in this kind of destinations makes this study a contribution to the research field
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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