Abstract
Recently the notion and measurement of destination competitiveness have received increasing attention in the economics literature on tourism. Bearing in mind that tourism is currently one of the main ways to encourage cultural participation, this study therefore seeks first, to ascertain whether or not regions with more abundant cultural resources attract greater flows of cultural tourism, and second, to evaluate efforts in managing cultural resources to attract cultural tourism. In this chapter we perform an economic efficiency analysis based on a production frontier approach using a dataset of 17 Spanish regions between 2004 and 2012. We use a non-parametric method (DEA) to measure regional competitiveness in terms of its technical efficiency. We also attempt to analyse the evolution of regional efficiency employing the Malmquist Index and its decomposition in variations due to technological change and efficiency change.
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Notes
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See also Pulina et al. (2010) who use revenues from tourism and labour costs to evaluate Italian regions.
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The source for inputs are CULTURABase. The number of tourists comes from FAMILITUR. A survey led by the Institute of Tourist Studies. Data are available for even years only.
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Herrero-Prieto, L.C. (2017). Evaluating the Efficiency of Cultural Travel Destinations: A DEA Approach. In: Ateca-Amestoy, V., Ginsburgh, V., Mazza, I., O'Hagan, J., Prieto-Rodriguez, J. (eds) Enhancing Participation in the Arts in the EU. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09096-2_16
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