Tourism attractions are widely recognized as the major determinants of the destination competitiveness. Global tourism market is becoming fi ercely competitive environment and tourism destinations are under extreme pressure to rejuvenate and to enhance their attractiveness in order to remain competitive. Th is paper has two main goals. First goal of the paper is to advance existing body of know...

Purpose The current study is designed to investigate the factors that foster framing of destination competitiveness and establish drive contribution tourism innovations economic growth in smart destinations. Design/methodology/approach A four-year panel data were extracted from World Economic Forum's travel index analysed using Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood regression model. Findings findin...

This article explores and discusses community-based tourism (CBT) proposes a model intended to be exemplary for CBT cases throughout most of the world’s emerging countries. Further, this paper aims at establishing connection between competitiveness local development, calling therefore proposed C-CBT. The authors try establish motivations develop type tourism, as well drawbacks, grouping them in...

In academia as well in the industry there is currently an increasing interest in the concept of smart tourism destination. Specifically, it has been widely underlined the relevant role that ICTs, Internet of Things and Cloud Computing exert in providing instruments and platforms that can facilitate the dissemination of information and knowledge among stakeholders, thus enhancing innovation and ...