Accessibility in tourist sites in Spain: Does it really matter when choosing a destination?

This work aims to analyse and characterise accessibility in tourism —defined as the conditions for people with access needs— and its relationship with tourism performance. Accessibility is a critical concept —to be defined and measured in a rigorous way— that helps shed light on the particularities...

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Autores principales: Rucci, Ana Clara, Porto, Natalia
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2022
Materias:
Ciencias Económicas
Turismo
accessibility
constraints
accessible tourism travel chain
tourism destination competitiveness
tourism performance
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/163620
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1636202024-03-08T20:08:06Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/163620 Accessibility in tourist sites in Spain: Does it really matter when choosing a destination? Rucci, Ana Clara Porto, Natalia 2022 2024-03-08T18:21:05Z en Ciencias Económicas Turismo accessibility constraints accessible tourism travel chain tourism destination competitiveness tourism performance This work aims to analyse and characterise accessibility in tourism —defined as the conditions for people with access needs— and its relationship with tourism performance. Accessibility is a critical concept —to be defined and measured in a rigorous way— that helps shed light on the particularities of the phenomena, considering consumers and producers of tourism. Spain's solid background in accessible tourism portrays the possibility of elaborating different accessible indicators. We propose and identify an exhaustive set of proxy measures for accessibility under the accessible tourism theoretical framework of the tourism travel chain. We also computed an accessibility index using disaggregated data of 152 Spanish tourist sites (National Statistics Institute of Spain), introducing those measures of accessibility as explanatory variables in a model of tourism performance of sun and cultural destinations. Our results show that accessibility seems not to be a determinant in tourist sites' performance. Sun destinations have better tourism performances than cultural ones, having or not accessible conditions. The findings not only reveal the need to improve and consolidate accessible conditions in cultural destinations, but also disseminate and deepen information channels, especially for people with access needs, before choosing a destination. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Articulo Articulo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) application/pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
Turismo
accessibility
constraints
accessible tourism travel chain
tourism destination competitiveness
tourism performance
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
Turismo
accessibility
constraints
accessible tourism travel chain
tourism destination competitiveness
tourism performance
Rucci, Ana Clara
Porto, Natalia
Accessibility in tourist sites in Spain: Does it really matter when choosing a destination?
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
Turismo
accessibility
constraints
accessible tourism travel chain
tourism destination competitiveness
tourism performance
description This work aims to analyse and characterise accessibility in tourism —defined as the conditions for people with access needs— and its relationship with tourism performance. Accessibility is a critical concept —to be defined and measured in a rigorous way— that helps shed light on the particularities of the phenomena, considering consumers and producers of tourism. Spain's solid background in accessible tourism portrays the possibility of elaborating different accessible indicators. We propose and identify an exhaustive set of proxy measures for accessibility under the accessible tourism theoretical framework of the tourism travel chain. We also computed an accessibility index using disaggregated data of 152 Spanish tourist sites (National Statistics Institute of Spain), introducing those measures of accessibility as explanatory variables in a model of tourism performance of sun and cultural destinations. Our results show that accessibility seems not to be a determinant in tourist sites' performance. Sun destinations have better tourism performances than cultural ones, having or not accessible conditions. The findings not only reveal the need to improve and consolidate accessible conditions in cultural destinations, but also disseminate and deepen information channels, especially for people with access needs, before choosing a destination.
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Porto, Natalia
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title Accessibility in tourist sites in Spain: Does it really matter when choosing a destination?
title_short Accessibility in tourist sites in Spain: Does it really matter when choosing a destination?
title_full Accessibility in tourist sites in Spain: Does it really matter when choosing a destination?
title_fullStr Accessibility in tourist sites in Spain: Does it really matter when choosing a destination?
title_full_unstemmed Accessibility in tourist sites in Spain: Does it really matter when choosing a destination?
title_sort accessibility in tourist sites in spain: does it really matter when choosing a destination?
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