Tourism destination competitiveness: Second thoughts on the world economic forum reports

Tourism Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 725-751

  Mazanec, Josef A ^a   Ring, Amata ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Destination competitiveness; Formative construct; Mixture modelling; Non linear structural equation models; Partialleast squares

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MODELING; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EID: 79961051650     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/te.2011.0065     Document Type: Review

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