The Importance Of The Tourist Destination

The tourist destination is regularly used by marketing as a source of physical attributes and material assets that contribute to the tourism brand image in order to attract tourists and become a competition stage with other destinations. However the tourist destination itself remains a latent measurement of a full dimension observed by individuals who visit these areas or tourist destinations. Suggested by some authors (d'Orey, 2015), it was used a diverse representative bibliography of this abstract dimension of "Tourist Destination".

Mazanec, Wober, & Zins (2007), put competitiveness, as a characterizing factor of tourist destinations. For the authors, heritage and culture, economic and educational level of the populations are internal elements …show more content…
Reviewing these authors it can be said that, competitiveness of tourist destinations lays on subjective indicators (e.g. appeal and beauty of destination) associated with natural resources and objectives (e.g. prices of tour packages, growth rates) and to the economic progress of the …show more content…
Echtner & Ritchie, (2003), report that the destination image process is the result of the mental conception of a set of selected impressions by tourists. Then, it can be said that there are images produced by elements associated with the promotion, access networks and destinations and other infrastructure caused by social and psychological intrinsic characteristics of tourists (Matos, Mendes & Valle