Adventure Tourism Benchmark – Analyzing the Case of Suesca, Cundinamarca

Adventure tourism is a growing sector within the tourism industry and understanding its dynamics is fundamental for adventure tourism destinations and their local authorities. Destination benchmarking is a strong tool to identify the performance of tourism services offered at the destination in orde...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Tsao Borrero, Juan Felipe
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2012
País:Colombia
Recursos:Universidad Externado de Colombia
Repositório:Biblioteca Digital Universidad Externado de Colombia
Idioma:espanhol
OAI Identifier:oai:bdigital.uexternado.edu.co:001/9988
Acesso em linha:https://bdigital.uexternado.edu.co/handle/001/9988
https://revistas.uexternado.edu.co/index.php/tursoc/article/view/3399
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Adventure Tourism
Internal and External Benchmarking
Destination
Suesca.
Descrição
Resumo:Adventure tourism is a growing sector within the tourism industry and understanding its dynamics is fundamental for adventure tourism destinations and their local authorities. Destination benchmarking is a strong tool to identify the performance of tourism services offered at the destination in order to design appropriate policies to improve its competitiveness. The benchmarking study of Suesca, an adventure tourism destination in Colombia, helps to identify the gaps compared with successful adventure tourism destinations around the world, and provides valuable information to local policy-makers on the features to be improved. The lack of available information to tourists and financial facilities hinders the capability of Suesca to improve its competitiveness.