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

Autores
Rucci, Ana Clara; Porto, Natalia
Año de publicación
2022
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inglés
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Descripción
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
Materia
Ciencias Económicas
Turismo
accessibility
constraints
accessible tourism travel chain
tourism destination competitiveness
tourism performance
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Accessibility in tourist sites in Spain: Does it really matter when choosing a destination?
title Accessibility in tourist sites in Spain: Does it really matter when choosing a destination?
spellingShingle Accessibility in tourist sites in Spain: Does it really matter when choosing a destination?
Rucci, Ana Clara
Ciencias Económicas
Turismo
accessibility
constraints
accessible tourism travel chain
tourism destination competitiveness
tourism performance
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?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Rucci, Ana Clara
Porto, Natalia
author Rucci, Ana Clara
author_facet Rucci, Ana Clara
Porto, Natalia
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
Turismo
accessibility
constraints
accessible tourism travel chain
tourism destination competitiveness
tourism performance
topic Ciencias Económicas
Turismo
accessibility
constraints
accessible tourism travel chain
tourism destination competitiveness
tourism performance
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv 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
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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