An Empirical Operationalization of Countries' Destination Competitiveness Using Partial Least Squares Modeling

Journal of Travel Research

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 26-43

  Assaker, Guy ^a,b   Hallak, Rob ^b   Vinzi, Vincenzo Esposito ^c   O'Connor, Peter ^c  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

cause indicators; destination competitiveness; latent variables (LVs) scores; partial least squares modeling (PLSPM); structural equation modeling (SEM)

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EID: 84888317330     PISSN: 00472875     EISSN: 15526763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0047287513481275     Document Type: Article

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