Regional Analysis of Tourism Resources:

Destination Attractiveness Based on Supply and Demand Evaluations: An Analytical Framework

“…He performed a content analysis of guidebooks to define the resources that were considered tourist attractions in the area under investigation. The studies in regional analysis of tourism resources (Backman, Uysal, and Backman 1991;Cha and Uysal 1994;Smith 1987;Spotts 1997;Uysal and Potts 1990) are instrumental in the development of this methodology. Particularly, these previous works provide the base for using counties as units of measurement, grouping resource variables into dimensions with the help of factor analysis, and identifying tourism regions based on attraction patterns in space.…”

An Analysis of Cities Based on Tourism Supply and Climatic Conditions in Turkey

“…This particular approach is also subsequently applied with different variations in various spatial settings by several other researchers (Lovingood and Mitchell 1989;Uysal and Potts 1990;Backman et al 1991;Cha and Uysal 1994;Spotts 1997;Formica 2001;Shoval and Raveh 2004). In addition to measurable supply indicators, this study augments the analytical approach by adding an overall attractiveness city score, as defined by the State Planning Organization of Turkey (2003), to its supply matrix.…”

“…This point further supports the notion that travel behaviour (decision making) in tourism settings could not be examined without the consideration of the collective effects of internal and external variables, the nature of the intended trip, and trip experiences, further supporting the importance of demand-supply interaction both in spatial flows of travel and choice-set models. Downloaded by [University Library Utrecht] Identification and classification of places as destinations have been conducted in a number of studies over the last two decades (Lovingood and Mitchell 1989;Uysal and Potts 1990;Backman et al 1991;Cha and Uysal 1994;Formica 2001;Heung et al 2001;Shoval and Raveh 2004). Several other tourism researchers also studied the existing relationship between supply and demand variables (Gearing et al 1974;Var et al 1977;Ritchie and Zins 1978;Ferrario 1979;Tang and Rochananond 1990;Hu and Ritchie 1993;Nyberg 1995;Formica 2001;Formica and Uysal 2006).…”

Methodological proposal for the identification of tourist routes in a particular region through clustering techniques

“…Gunn (2002) has proposed factors such as market preferences, advocacy, information systems, restrictions and benefits (social environment, governmental disposition, among others), and physical factors, composed of potential destination areas, by geographic and competitive contexts, to identify new and improved attractions and threats to the environment. The authors who have used this categorization are Cha and Uysal (1995) , Smith (1987) and Smith (2013) .…”