Marketing the Competitive Destination of the Future

Managing destination competitiveness through Interaction Spatial Models: A tourist spatial behavior approach

by Frederic Dimanche

Co-authored with L. Andrades and presented at the Consumer Behavior in Tourism Symposium 2011 in Brunico, Italy

The purpose of this paper is to suggest how the “Interaction Spatial Models” (Nakanishi & Cooper, 1974) can be... more The purpose of this paper is to suggest how the “Interaction Spatial Models” (Nakanishi & Cooper, 1974) can be applied to evaluate tourists´ spatial behaviour (TSB) and as a result, to measure tourism destination competitiveness (TDC) by adopting an integrative and complete approach.