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The Quality Of The Tourist Destinations A Key Factor For Increasing Their Attractiveness

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  • Blazeska, Daliborka

    (University of Tourism and Management in Skopje, Macedonia)

  • Milenkovski, Ace

    (University of Tourism and Management in Skopje, Macedonia)

  • Gramatnikovski, Sashko

    (University of Tourism and Management in Skopje, Macedonia)

Abstract

Taking into consideration that the tourism is extremely important for any country including Republic of Macedonia, it is necessary to pay attention to the quality of the tourist destinations and increasing of their attractiveness. So winners in the field of tourism will be those countries that have attractive tourist destination that will attract a lot of visitors. In this paper is defined the relationship between the factors of attractiveness of the destination and the achieving of competitiveness. In order to become competitive in the global market, the tourist destination has to be innovative and to continually search for new competitive advantages. Those kind of competitive advantages enable stable and long-term sustainable development of the tourist destination. In this paper special emphasis is put to the monitoring of the quality of the tourist destination with constant inquiries of the tourists (domestic and foreign) regarding the most important segments of the quality of the tourist product which they are using, in order to perceive the satisfaction or the eventual dissatisfaction in order to be taken concrete strategies for the following period. The obtained results clearly confirm the dissatisfaction with the road infrastructure and signalization, the price of the services and the conditions for the stay, as well as the additional attractions that were expected to get.

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  • Blazeska, Daliborka & Milenkovski, Ace & Gramatnikovski, Sashko, 2015. "The Quality Of The Tourist Destinations A Key Factor For Increasing Their Attractiveness," UTMS Journal of Economics, University of Tourism and Management, Skopje, Macedonia, vol. 6(2), pages 341-353.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:utmsje:0162
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    1. Thomas Krabokoukis & Serafeim Polyzos, 2021. "An Investigation of Factors Determining the Tourism Attractiveness of Greece’s Prefectures," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 12(4), pages 1997-2015, December.

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    Keywords

    quality; tourist product; tourist destinations; attractiveness; satisfaction of the consumers;
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    JEL classification:

    • M30 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising - - - General
    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development

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