Quality of life performance index for tourism destinations

Abstract

The typically utilized quality of life performance measures are not comprehensive as they are largely descriptive or based on partial performance indicators. The current study introduces a more comprehensive performance measure of quality of life, distinguishing between process indicators (i.e., those that capture the tourism impact) and outcome indicators of community/residents’ well-being. We achieve this goal with an advanced stochastic frontier model to capture the unique multiple input and output quality of life dimensions. The model is tested on a sample of 82 tourism destinations over a 13-year period.