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Competitiveness Factor Analysis of an Operating Tourist Destination

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Tourism as a socio-economic phenomenon, combines market aspects of economic relations and social-oriented society’s development objectives. In the contemporary environment for tourist industry development destination is a key element of tourism system, particularly manifested all interconnections and interdependencies of a given system with external socio-economic environment at the regional level. Furthermore, we monitor a need to replenish the theoretical and methodological destination analysis foundations as well as improvement of the mechanisms of its practical application.

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  1. SWU “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

    Mariya Stankova & Ivanka Vasenska

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  1. Faculty of Tourism, Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey

    Nazmi Kozak

  2. School of Tourism, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey

    Metin Kozak

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Stankova, M., Vasenska, I. (2019). Competitiveness Factor Analysis of an Operating Tourist Destination. In: Kozak, N., Kozak, M. (eds) Tourist Destination Management. Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16981-7_15

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