IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/regstd/v58y2024i10p1858-1873.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

UNESCO World Heritage Site label and sustainable tourism in Europe: a user-generated content analysis

Author

Listed:
  • Egbert Van der Zee
  • Nicola Camatti
  • Dario Bertocchi
  • Khalid W.A. Shomali

Abstract

Officially branding local heritage through recognised labels is a strategy that regions can use to promote economic development. Regions increasingly seek more sustainable tourism development, which can be captured by the quality of local tourist service development. This paper examines whether the UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) label is associated with local tourism development of a higher quality and offers the first comparative study across European regions. Using TripAdvisor reviews of over 38,000 European locations, our results reveal a positive correlation between WHS labelling and measures of perceived quality and breadth of local tourist services.

Suggested Citation

  • Egbert Van der Zee & Nicola Camatti & Dario Bertocchi & Khalid W.A. Shomali, 2024. "UNESCO World Heritage Site label and sustainable tourism in Europe: a user-generated content analysis," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 58(10), pages 1858-1873, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:58:y:2024:i:10:p:1858-1873
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2024.2333787
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00343404.2024.2333787
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/00343404.2024.2333787?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:58:y:2024:i:10:p:1858-1873. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/CRES20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.