Accessibility in tourist sites in Spain: Does it really matter when choosing a destination?

IF 2.9 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM
A. C. Rucci, N. Porto
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Abstract

This work aims to analyse and characterise accessibility in tourism —defined as the conditions for people with access needs— and its relationship with tourism performance. Accessibility is a critical concept —to be defined and measured in a rigorous way— that helps shed light on the particularities of the phenomena, considering consumers and producers of tourism. Spain's solid background in accessible tourism portrays the possibility of elaborating different accessible indicators. We propose and identify an exhaustive set of proxy measures for accessibility under the accessible tourism theoretical framework of the tourism travel chain. We also computed an accessibility index using disaggregated data of 152 Spanish tourist sites (National Statistics Institute of Spain), introducing those measures of accessibility as explanatory variables in a model of tourism performance of sun and cultural destinations. Our results show that accessibility seems not to be a determinant in tourist sites' performance. Sun destinations have better tourism performances than cultural ones, having or not accessible conditions. The findings not only reveal the need to improve and consolidate accessible conditions in cultural destinations, but also disseminate and deepen information channels, especially for people with access needs, before choosing a destination.
西班牙旅游景点的可达性:在选择目的地时真的重要吗?
这项工作旨在分析和表征旅游业的无障碍性——定义为有无障碍需求的人的条件——及其与旅游绩效的关系。无障碍是一个关键概念,需要以严格的方式进行定义和衡量,考虑到旅游业的消费者和生产者,这有助于揭示这些现象的特殊性。西班牙在无障碍旅游方面的坚实背景说明了制定不同无障碍指标的可能性。我们在旅游旅行链的无障碍旅游理论框架下,提出并确定了一套详尽的无障碍代理措施。我们还使用152个西班牙旅游景点的分类数据(西班牙国家统计局)计算了无障碍指数,在阳光和文化目的地的旅游表现模型中引入了这些无障碍指标作为解释变量。我们的研究结果表明,可达性似乎不是旅游景点表现的决定因素。阳光旅游目的地比文化旅游目的地有更好的旅游表现,无论是否有条件。研究结果不仅揭示了改善和巩固文化目的地无障碍条件的必要性,而且在选择目的地之前,传播和深化信息渠道,特别是为有无障碍需求的人。
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European Journal of Tourism Research
European Journal of Tourism Research HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-
CiteScore
5.00
自引率
8.70%
发文量
50
审稿时长
25 weeks
期刊介绍: The European Journal of Tourism Research is an open access academic journal in the field of tourism, published by Varna University of Management, Bulgaria. Its aim is to provide a platform for discussion of theoretical and empirical problems in tourism. Publications from all fields, connected with tourism such as tourism management, tourism marketing, tourism sociology, psychology in tourism, tourism geography, political sciences in tourism, mathematics, tourism statistics, tourism anthropology, culture and tourism, heritage and tourism, national identity and tourism, information technologies in tourism and others are invited.
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