Journal ArticleDOI
Building Composite Indicators in Tourism Studies: Measurements and Applications in Destination Competitiveness
Daria Mendola,Serena Volo +1 more
TLDR
This paper provides tourism scholars and practitioners with a set of statistical guidelines to build composite indicators and with an operative scheme to assess indicators' effectiveness in empirical evaluations.About:
This article is published in Tourism Management.The article was published on 2017-04-01. It has received 117 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tourism.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
On the Methodological Framework of Composite Indices: A Review of the Issues of Weighting, Aggregation, and Robustness
Salvatore Greco,Salvatore Greco,Alessio Ishizaka,Menelaos Tasiou,Gianpiero Torrisi,Gianpiero Torrisi +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors put composite indicators under the spotlight, examining the wide variety of methodological approaches in existence and offered a more recent outlook on the advances made in this field over the past years.
Journal ArticleDOI
Navigating uncertainty in environmental composite indicators
Michael J. Burgass,Michael J. Burgass,Benjamin S. Halpern,Benjamin S. Halpern,Emily Nicholson,E. J. Milner-Gulland +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight methodological challenges and uncertainties involved in creating composite indicators and provide advice on how to improve future CI development in practice and recommend use of systems modelling as well as systematic elicitation and engagement during CI development.
Journal ArticleDOI
Determinants of tourism destination competitiveness in the countries most visited by international tourists: Proposal of a synthetic index
José Antonio Salinas Fernández,Paula Serdeira Azevedo,José M. Martín,José Antonio Rodríguez Martín +3 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a new methodology for the construction of this synthetic index, which solved the problems of aggregation of variables expressed in different measures, arbitrary weighting and duplicity of information; issues that remain unresolved by the TTCI.
Journal ArticleDOI
Regional tourism competitiveness using the PROMETHEE approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the PROMETHEE and GAIA methods were used to measure the competitiveness of tourism destinations at the regional level, showing the suitability of using multi-criteria techniques to measure competitiveness.
Journal ArticleDOI
Ranking world tourist destinations with a composite indicator of competitiveness: To weigh or not to weigh?
TL;DR: In this paper, a weighted composite indicator of tourism competitiveness for 136 world tourist destinations is presented, and the role played by several variables in tourism competitiveness is assessed using truncated regression and bootstrapping.
References
More filters
Book
The competitive advantage of nations
TL;DR: The Need for a New Paradigm as discussed by the authors is the need for a new paradigm for the competitive advantage of companies in global industries, as well as the dynamics of national competitive advantage.
Book
On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
TL;DR: The editors of this monumental undertaking as discussed by the authors have achieved near perfection as near to perfection as anything human can be, and nothing but praise can be accorded to the editors and reviewers.
Journal ArticleDOI
A Critical Review of Construct Indicators and Measurement Model Misspecification in Marketing and Consumer Research
TL;DR: A set of conceptual criteria is developed that can be used to determine whether a construct should be modeled as having formative or reflective indicators, and an estimate of the extent of measurement model misspecification in the field is estimated.
Journal ArticleDOI
Index Construction with Formative Indicators: An Alternative to Scale Development
TL;DR: This article examined the nature of formative indicators and discussed ways in which the quality of the formative measures can be assessed, and illustrated the proposed procedures with empirical data, with the aim to enhance researchers' understanding of the forms and assist them in their index construction efforts.