Tourism competitiveness indicators. The case of three colonial destinations in Mexico

Authors

  • Reyna Tello Pérez Instituto Tecnológico de Oaxaca
  • Julio Cesar Torres Valdez Instituto Tecnológico de Oaxaca
  • Miguel Sánchez Álvarez Universidad Intercultural de Chiapas
  • Javier Gómez Diaz Instituto Tecnológico de Oaxaca https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2352-4299

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/ara.v14i1.44766

Keywords:

Colonial destinations, Competitiveness, Tourism, Tourist inflow

Abstract

The complexity of the tourist activity makes it dificult to determine a set of indicators that could be applied in a universal way to improve the competitiveness of the destinations. The target is to analyze what are the indicators that differentiate the competitive position of the analyzed cultural destinations and to confirm the competitive position of the same ones taking like the tourist inflow as regarding. Surveys were conducted with the providers of tourist services in the destinations of Puebla, Oaxaca, and San Cristóbal de las Casas. The cluster statistical analysis, the conformation of competitiveness indexes and the discriminant analysis allowed to identify that the indicators of situational conditions, tourist general infrastructure, natural resources, and tangible hereditary resources help to differ to the evaluated destinations

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2024-12-05

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Tello Pérez, R. ., Torres Valdez, J. C., Sánchez Álvarez, M., & Gómez Diaz, J. (2024). Tourism competitiveness indicators. The case of three colonial destinations in Mexico. Ara: Journal of Tourism Research, 14(1), 21–37. https://doi.org/10.1344/ara.v14i1.44766

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