Determining Indicators of Mountain Destination Development

Abstract

Discrete choice experiments are conducted in different fields to obtain data for investigating consumer behaviour and derived measures such as the value of improving a particular service attribute. This paper presents a stated preference experiment for evaluating the service quality of four hotels of an important corporation in Gran Canaria Island (Lopesan Hotels and Resorts). Service quality is a composite of various attributes; among them many attributes are intangible and difficult to measure. In this paper, we estimate a multinomial logit (MNL) in order to obtain a synthetic index for service quality. This composite index will help hotel managers to understand their relative ranking position, and provide an adequate alternative to performance evaluation of hotel services which usually involve subjective judgments of qualitative attributes.

Attractive Landscape Features as Drivers for Sustainable Mountain Tourism Experiences

“…The particular appeal of the initiative is its combination of addressing the activity of mountaineering, and in a broad sense, rendering it attractive to diverse groups of visitors (see assessment of satisfaction by tourists to MV). This is linked to a global "commodification" of mountaineering [57] and a search for seasonal balance in the destination profile [58,59]. Moreover, landscape development is tightly interwoven with land use and specific types of land management.…”

Location decisions of sport manufacturing businesses in tourism destinations – analysing factors of attractiveness

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