Acta turistica, Vol. 31 No. 2, 2019.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.22598/at/2019.31.2.115
TOURIST FUNCTION DEVELOPMENT IN EU COUNTRIES: MEASUREMENT AND STATISTICAL EVALUATION
Patrycja Żegleń
; University of Rzeszów, Faculty of Economics, Poland
Małgorzata Stec
; University of Rzeszów, Faculty of Economics, Poland
Anna Barwińska-Małajowicz
; University of Rzeszów, Faculty of Economics, Poland
Abstract
European Union countries are the most signifi cant tourist destinations around the world. However, the level of development of tourist function is not the same in all European Union countries. It seems interesting to compare the level of tourist function development of European Union countries. The article attempts to determine the value of the synthetic measure of levels of development of the tourist function of European Union countries, taking into consideration the eight most frequently utilised indicators. The study applies M. Walesiak’s General Distance Measure (GDM), where the normalisation of variables was undertaken during 2007-2016 with the application of a median-based formula. The empirical research was conducted, using the dynamic approach (for cross-sectional and tidal data) thus, enabling the comparison of changes observed in the analysed phenomenon tidally. The research findings enabled the authors to rank EU countries in terms of their tourist function development levels and to classify them into three groups. In 2016, the leader regarding the level of development of tourist function was Malta. The majority of Western European countries have medium-high levels of development of in tourist function, whereas the group of countries with medium-low levels included countries from East-Central Europe, Scandinavian countries and several Western Europe countries. The obtained results can lay the foundation for the proper management of tourism in EU countries and for proper decision-making regarding the allocation of EU funds.
Keywords
destination; tourist function indexes; synthetic tourist function indicator
Hrčak ID:
231944
URI
Publication date:
22.12.2019.
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