The impact of sustainable tourism indicators on destination competitiveness: the European Tourism Indicator System

We aimed to evaluate the impact of sustainable tourism indicators on destination competitiveness with reference to the European Tourism Indicator System (ETIS), a scheme funded by the European Commission to address the evidence gap in tourism policy making. To do this, we evaluate the absorptive cap...

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Autores: Font, Xavier, Torres-Delgado, Anna, Crabolu, Gloria, Palomo, Jesus, Kantenbacher, Joseph, Miller, Graham
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Repositorio:BURJC-Digital. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
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Palabra clave:Destination management organisations
competitiveness
absorptive capacity
sustainable tourism indicators
dynamic capabilities
policy making
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spelling The impact of sustainable tourism indicators on destination competitiveness: the European Tourism Indicator SystemFont, XavierTorres-Delgado, AnnaCrabolu, GloriaPalomo, JesusKantenbacher, JosephMiller, GrahamDestination management organisationscompetitivenessabsorptive capacitysustainable tourism indicatorsdynamic capabilitiespolicy makingWe aimed to evaluate the impact of sustainable tourism indicators on destination competitiveness with reference to the European Tourism Indicator System (ETIS), a scheme funded by the European Commission to address the evidence gap in tourism policy making. To do this, we evaluate the absorptive capacity of destination management organisations (DMOs) to implement and use sustainable tourism indicators to make policy decisions. We provide evidence of how DMOs have acquired knowledge about the importance of sustainable tourism indicators through ETIS, and how they have assimilated it by developing their own systems based on the principles of ETIS. However, we find that the European Commission had unrealistic expectations that DMOs, or their policies, would be transformed as a result of the use of indicators, or that indicators would be exploited to improve tourism sustainability and competitiveness. We contribute to the study of policy science by showing how absorptive capacity can be used to analyse and evaluate policy interventions, despite being a linear rational approach to explaining a complex policy context.Routledge202320232021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10115/26552reponame:BURJC-Digital. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlosinstname:Universidad Rey Juan CarlosInglésAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:burjcdigital.urjc.es:10115/265522026-06-24T12:48:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The impact of sustainable tourism indicators on destination competitiveness: the European Tourism Indicator System
title The impact of sustainable tourism indicators on destination competitiveness: the European Tourism Indicator System
spellingShingle The impact of sustainable tourism indicators on destination competitiveness: the European Tourism Indicator System
Font, Xavier
Destination management organisations
competitiveness
absorptive capacity
sustainable tourism indicators
dynamic capabilities
policy making
title_short The impact of sustainable tourism indicators on destination competitiveness: the European Tourism Indicator System
title_full The impact of sustainable tourism indicators on destination competitiveness: the European Tourism Indicator System
title_fullStr The impact of sustainable tourism indicators on destination competitiveness: the European Tourism Indicator System
title_full_unstemmed The impact of sustainable tourism indicators on destination competitiveness: the European Tourism Indicator System
title_sort The impact of sustainable tourism indicators on destination competitiveness: the European Tourism Indicator System
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Font, Xavier
Torres-Delgado, Anna
Crabolu, Gloria
Palomo, Jesus
Kantenbacher, Joseph
Miller, Graham
author Font, Xavier
author_facet Font, Xavier
Torres-Delgado, Anna
Crabolu, Gloria
Palomo, Jesus
Kantenbacher, Joseph
Miller, Graham
author_role author
author2 Torres-Delgado, Anna
Crabolu, Gloria
Palomo, Jesus
Kantenbacher, Joseph
Miller, Graham
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Destination management organisations
competitiveness
absorptive capacity
sustainable tourism indicators
dynamic capabilities
policy making
topic Destination management organisations
competitiveness
absorptive capacity
sustainable tourism indicators
dynamic capabilities
policy making
description We aimed to evaluate the impact of sustainable tourism indicators on destination competitiveness with reference to the European Tourism Indicator System (ETIS), a scheme funded by the European Commission to address the evidence gap in tourism policy making. To do this, we evaluate the absorptive capacity of destination management organisations (DMOs) to implement and use sustainable tourism indicators to make policy decisions. We provide evidence of how DMOs have acquired knowledge about the importance of sustainable tourism indicators through ETIS, and how they have assimilated it by developing their own systems based on the principles of ETIS. However, we find that the European Commission had unrealistic expectations that DMOs, or their policies, would be transformed as a result of the use of indicators, or that indicators would be exploited to improve tourism sustainability and competitiveness. We contribute to the study of policy science by showing how absorptive capacity can be used to analyse and evaluate policy interventions, despite being a linear rational approach to explaining a complex policy context.
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