Navarro Navarro, Jesús, Juárez Tárraga, Francisco, Ramón-Rodríguez, Ana B., Perles Ribes, José Francisco
The life cycle and competitive position of tourism destinations: a global empirical approach
Current Issues in Tourism. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2280161
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/138425
DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2280161
ISSN: 1368-3500 (Print)
Abstract: 
The competitiveness of tourism destinations depends on their degree of development or maturity. This article uses cluster analysis methods to establish the position in the life cycle of destinations in a pool of 154 countries. The article also explores their evolution between 2007 and 2017 doing a static comparative exercise. The position in the life cycle is determined by using confidence intervals for the means of the main variables. Following a recent and innovative methodology, thresholds are proposed that could potentially allow for a change of phase in the life cycle. Moreover, the article examines the main determinants of the competitiveness of the different destination groups as a function of their life-cycle position.
Keywords:Lifecycle, TALC, Tourism destinations, Hierarchical cluster analysis, Competitiveness
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