The Development of a Regional Tourism Destination Competitiveness Measurement Instrument

IF 1.2 Q3 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Tourism and Hospitality Management-Croatia Pub Date : 2022-12-21 DOI:10.3390/tourhosp4010001

Tanya Rheeders, D. Meyer

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Abstract

The importance of the tourism sector has been highlighted and featured in various studies indicating not only the economic but also social and environmental benefits. There is a need for a measurement instrument for regional tourism destination competitiveness. This measurement instrument could gauge a destination’s regional potential for tourism development and competitiveness; and be able to compare regions. To conduct an instrument development and validation, both PLS-SEM for confirmatory factor analysis and SPSS were utilised for exploratory factor analysis. A purposive sampling approach were used for both study areas, Sedibeng and Fezile Dabi district municipal regions, in which pilot studies were executed through a survey between July to September 2020. The reliability of the measurement instrument was confirmed with Cronbach’s Alpha (α) for both samples having a value above 0.70. The EFA confirmed the validity of the measurement instrument for the three-dimension and 16-items of the measurement instrument. This study recommends using the measurement instrument as a practical tool to analyse regions regarding the development and competitiveness of a tourism destination compared to other destinations.

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区域旅游目的地竞争力测量工具的开发

旅游部门的重要性已在各种研究中得到强调和突出，不仅表明经济效益，而且表明社会和环境效益。区域旅游目的地竞争力需要一种衡量工具。这一测量工具可以衡量一个目的地的旅游发展潜力和竞争力;并且能够比较区域。为了进行仪器开发和验证，使用PLS-SEM进行验证性因素分析，使用SPSS进行探索性因素分析。在两个研究区域，即Sedibeng和Fezile大比区市辖区，采用了有目的的抽样方法，通过2020年7月至9月的调查进行了试点研究。测量仪器的可靠性用Cronbach 's Alpha (α)对两个样本的值均大于0.70。EFA对测量仪器的三个维度和16个项目确认了测量仪器的有效性。本研究建议使用测量工具作为一种实用的工具来分析旅游目的地与其他目的地相比的发展和竞争力。

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Tourism and Hospitality Management-Croatia HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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1.90

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23.10%

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15 weeks

期刊介绍： Tourism and Hospitality Management is an international, multidisciplinary, open access journal, aiming to promote and enhance research in all fields of the tourism and hospitality industry. It publishes double-blind reviewed papers and encourages an interchange between tourism and hospitality researchers, educators and managers. Editors of Tourism and Hospitality Management strongly promote research integrity and aim to prevent any type of scientific misconduct, such as: fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, redundant publication and authorship problems. All submitted manuscripts are checked using Crossref Similarity Check (iThenticate). Nurturing a scientifically based approach to research, the journal publishes original papers along with empirical research and theoretical articles that contribute to the conceptual development of tourism and hospitality management. Editors look particularly for articles about new trends, challenges and developments, as well as the application of new ideas that are likely to affect the tourism and hospitality industry. The general criteria for the acceptance of articles are: contribution to the scientific knowledge in the field of tourism and hospitality management, scientifically reliable research methodology, relevant literature review and quality of the English language.