Competitiveness in the visitor economy: A systematic literature review

Abstract

Competitiveness is a well-discussed research topic in various disciplines and fields, amongst which competitiveness in the visitor economy is a prominent research stream. With rapid transformations in the visitor economy, destinations, regions, sectors and businesses have had to adapt – with varying degrees of success – to internal and external changes, significantly affecting their competitiveness. Existing studies are dominantly based on a few pioneering models and indicators and relatively few empirically challenge the assumed causality of competitiveness factors at different scales. This article, therefore, conducts a systematic literature review of competitiveness in the visitor economy post-2005 and examines the intellectual and conceptual structures of the extant literature as a platform to identify knowledge gaps and emerging trends and perspectives for future research.

Zooming into Airbnb listings of European cities: Further investigation of the sector’s competitiveness

“…Still lacking in the existing literature, however, is an investigation of the impact of hotel-specific variables on the competitiveness of Airbnb listings, as well as a separate investigation of commercial and private Airbnb listings, whereby the former may ex-ante be characterized by a more efficient use of their inputs than the latter. This is the gap in the literature the present study tries to fill, which has also only very recently been confirmed as a research gap in a systematic literature review on the competitiveness of the visitor economy by Kim et al (2021).…”

Destination Resilience and Innovation for Advanced Sustainable Tourism Management: A Bibliometric Analysis

“…Other advantages include avoiding the use of additional software, since it also provides a set of tools for data visualization and ensures statistical correctness and completeness of results [62,63]. Bibliometrix is spreading in many domains of academic research such as economics [64], business and management [63,65,66], tourism and hospitality [67][68][69], open innovation [70], politics [71,72], and psychiatry [73]. Our work is conducted following a precise bibliometric workflow (reported in Figure 1): data collection, data analysis, and data visualization [59].…”

Length of stay and satisfaction shaping the competitiveness of international business tourism in São Paulo city, Brazil

“…Data were collected in 2018, through personal questionnaires with the head of the travel party at the main gateways of the country, including 15 airports and 12 land borders. 3 This research design is relevant as there is a prevalence of investigations of competitiveness at the destination/national level in the literature, despite the need for a broader understanding of competitiveness at different levels of a visitor economy (Kim et al, 2021). Likewise, the research is based on a destination located on a continent other than Europe, which is the focus of most studies on the topic (Cronjé and Du Plessis, 2020).…”

“…Second, there is an overemphasis on the national level approach and less knowledge about other levels of the visitor’s economy (e.g., regional or sectoral and micro level). Third, most studies are based on hidden cause-and-effect assumptions of different competitiveness factors (Abreu-Novais et al, 2016; Croes and Rivera, 2010; Cronjé and du Plessis, 2020; Kim et al, 2021; Tsai et al, 2009).…”

“…This potential is unveiled when competitiveness is applied in the context of the visitor economy, which refers to the contributions to the economy resulting from visitor-related economic activities. A comprehensive literature review on competitiveness in the visitor economy post-2005 reveals that this notion increasingly incorporates strategic and management perspectives and non-price elements, such as satisfaction with tourist experiences and the well-being of destination residents (Kim et al, 2021).…”