Bigger and Complex Is Not Always Better. The Creation of Composite Sustainable Tourism Indicator to Compare Destination Development

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2021-12-24 DOI:10.30519/ahtr.970292

Matús Marcis, T. Gajdošík

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Destination managers need indicators for monitoring, comparing and decision-making purposes about sustainable tourism development. There have been several initiatives to set the sustainable tourism indicators, however, the indicators are either too complex, data collection is difficult, or the analysis requires expert statistical knowledge. Therefore, this article aims to propose a user-friendly method that allows destination managers and decision makers to process tourism data and integrate them into one composite indicator. To help destination managers in their work, this paper reviews the most used methods to create composite indicators, and with the help of the Delphi method among experienced tourism leaders, it proposes a tool that allows destination managers to compare sustainable tourism development of destinations. The results present the application of simple composite sustainable tourism indicator on the example of eight destinations in Slovakia. The paper provides useful guidance in data collection, analysis and decision-making concerning sustainable tourism development.

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更大更复杂并不总是更好。创建综合可持续旅游指标，比较目的地发展

目的地管理者需要对可持续旅游发展进行监测、比较和决策的指标。制定可持续旅游指标的若干举措，但这些指标要么过于复杂，要么难以收集数据，要么分析需要专业的统计知识。因此，本文旨在提出一种用户友好的方法，使目的地管理者和决策者能够处理旅游数据并将其整合为一个复合指标。为了帮助目的地管理者更好地开展工作，本文回顾了最常用的复合指标创建方法，并借助经验丰富的旅游领导者的德尔菲法，提出了一种可以让目的地管理者比较目的地可持续旅游发展的工具。结果提出了简单复合可持续旅游指标在斯洛伐克八个旅游目的地的应用实例。本文为旅游可持续发展的数据收集、分析和决策提供了有益的指导。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.