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A framework for island destination competitiveness – perspectives from the island of Malta

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  • Ernest Azzopardi
  • Robert Nash

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This paper identifies a set of factors that determines tourism destination competitiveness (TDC) on the island of Malta. It presents an overview of a proposed destination competitiveness framework grounded in the research participants' perspective. It proposes a model portraying the various categories and components and how they connect to competitiveness. Thirty-five qualitative in-depth interviews are conducted with key “experts” in tourism. It emerges from the participants' description that sixty tourism-specific and business-related determinants provide a broad framework for assessing TDC on the island of Malta. The framework serves to reveal the dynamic complexity of destination competitiveness which is perceived as a means to ensuring prosperity for individual stakeholders and society at large.

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  • Ernest Azzopardi & Robert Nash, 2016. "A framework for island destination competitiveness – perspectives from the island of Malta," Current Issues in Tourism, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(3), pages 253-281, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rcitxx:v:19:y:2016:i:3:p:253-281
    DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2015.1025723
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