Is cultural heritage really important for tourists? A contingent rating study

Cuccia, Tiziana; Cellini, Roberto

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“…Some studies suggest that cultural heritage and attractions are major tourism drivers (e.g., Herbert, 2001;Vietze, 2008), also because of their uniqueness and difficult transferability (Dritsakis, 2004). Other studies stress do not find cultural sites and attractions to effectively attract tourists (see, e.g., Cuccia and Cellini, 2007). Similar contradictory results are found, for example, for WHS designations.…”

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Cultural Offer and Distance in a Spatial Interaction Model for Tourism

2014

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Culture is more and more considered as an important driver of tourism. However, it is critical, for policymakers, to evaluate the potential returns from investments in culture and generally cultural offer, in particular in multiregion settings with a potentially inefficient distribution of cultural offer. Our paper focuses on the role of distance (between the tourist's origin and destination regions) in mediating the tourism impact of cultural offer. This research question is investigated by means of a spatial interaction model, applied to the case of Italian domestic tourism. We find that distance indeed matters: a destination's endowment in culture appears to be more attractive for long-distance tourists, while an origin region's endowment seems to dinsincentivate long-distance trips to a greater extent.

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Cultural Offer and Distance in a Spatial Interaction Model for Tourism

2014

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“…The relevance of cultural offer/endowment for tourism has been investigated widely: some studies suggest that cultural heritage and attractions are major tourism drivers (e.g., Herbert, 2001;Vietze, 2008), also because of their uniqueness and difficult transferability (Dritsakis, 2004); other studies do not find cultural sites and attractions to effectively attract tourists (see, e.g., Cuccia and Cellini, 2007). Similar contradictory results are found, for example, for externally certified attractions, such as UNESCO's World Heritage sites (WHS).…”

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Cultural offer and distance in a spatial interaction model for tourism

Patuelli

Mussoni

Candela

2014

Econom. bus. letters

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Culture is more and more considered as an important driver of tourism. However, it is critical, for policymakers, to evaluate the potential returns from investments in culture and generally cultural offer, in particular in a multiregional setting with a potentially inefficient distribution of cultural offer. Our paper focuses on the role of distance (between the tourist's origin and destination regions) in mediating the tourism impact of cultural offer. This research question is investigated by means of a spatial interaction model, applied to the case of Italian domestic tourism. We find that distance indeed matters: a destination's endowment in culture appears to be more attractive for long-distance tourists, while an origin region's endowment seems to dinsincentivate long-distance trips to a greater extent.

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“…In this regard, it is clear that culture and the quality of historical heritage determine part of the tourist flow and individuals 0 preferences when planning their trip (Cuccia & Cellini, 2007), either as the specific goal of their visit (Guccio, Lissi, Mignosa, & Rizzo, 2017) or as part of the activities to be carried out during the stay, even this does not have a specific cultural finality in itself, making up what is referred to as omnivorous tourism (Barbieri & Mahoney, 2010). For this reason, and in the domain of efficiency studies of tourist destinations, works focusing on specifically gauging the impact of these cultural variables are becoming increasingly common.…”

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Analysing how cultural factors influence the efficiency of tourist destinations in Chile

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Herrero

Báez

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Journal of Tourism Research

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The present work is framed within the line of research addressing efficiency evaluation of tourist destinations, where regions are taken as territorial units able to determine their tourist appeal, and tourist flow is taken as the variable to be optimized. A virtual production function is therefore devise considering tourist flows as output and accommodation capacity and other tourist and cultural resources as the main inputs. We examine Chile as case study, a country with a growing number or tourists and increased investment in tourist and cultural infrastructures. We follow a two-stage model, estimating regional performance using data envelopment analysis and analysing the impact of external variables on efficiency applying bootstrap techniques and truncated regression models. Empirical results show that cultural endowments and activities together with natural resources determine Chilean regional efficiency in optimizing tourist flow, particularly in attracting international tourism. Thus, policy recommendations to improve regional management of tourist and cultural attractions are derived. This study contributes to increase applications in tourist destinations efficiency in Latin America, where works are still scarce.

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Is cultural heritage really important for tourists? A contingent rating study

Cited by 51 publications

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Cultural Offer and Distance in a Spatial Interaction Model for Tourism

Cultural Offer and Distance in a Spatial Interaction Model for Tourism

Cultural offer and distance in a spatial interaction model for tourism

Analysing how cultural factors influence the efficiency of tourist destinations in Chile

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