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Associate professor at the Faculty of Tourism of the University of Girona and settled in Business Management and Product Design Department. Co-director of Organizational Networks, Innovation and Tourism (ONIT) research group. PhD in tourism economics. Fields of interest Innovation management, Planning and managing tourism destinations, and product development.
He is actually chairman of the Academic Committee of NECSTOUR an International networks for tourism sustainability and competitiveness.
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September 1999 - present
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In mountain areas, tourism destination management and branding generally follow administrative boundaries, representing a loss of competitiveness in the tourism sector for these already remote destinations, in many cases, with under-developed tourism. Increasingly, researchers are claiming to consider tourist perspectives, not only in drawing up pr...
This exploratory study focuses on the understudied area of financial services available to tourism social entrepreneurs. Understanding the unique user experience of fundraising by tourism social entrepreneurs leading hybrid business models, where social value creation is intertwined with profitability, gives us insights into the effectiveness of cu...
Tourism Social Entrepreneurship is a market-based strategy for sustainable tourism development. It solves complex social issues to benefit disadvantaged stakeholders, while seeking to achieve financial sustainability and boost the benefits of tourism. Currently, there is little insight into how social entrepreneurs create these innovative social so...
Tourism destinations are generally delimited and branded based on administrative boundaries, which act as artificial barriers that may reduce the competitiveness of the tourism sector. Increasingly, literature is taking a demand perspective (i.e., tourist spatial behaviour) when identifying and promoting destinations. This perspective can help to p...
La crescente competizione tra le destinazioni turistiche e l'evoluzione dei biso-gni dei visitatori, sempre più alla ricerca di esperienze turistiche complesse e coinvolgenti, sono tra le principali ragioni sottese alla crescente valenza stra-tegica dei marchi territoriali nel turismo (Almeyda-Ibáñez, Babu, 2017; Mor-gan et alii, 2011). Oggi le des...
Traditionally, tourism destinations have been delineated following administrative boundaries. However, it is questionable whether these boundaries are the most desirable spatial configurations to facilitate tourists’ flows and the management of services within a geographical area. Several authors have argued that the way in which tourists consume a...
In recent years, research relating to marketing promotion has focused on the concepts of place branding and destination branding. However, a number of gaps in the existing literature need to be addressed. For example, while there are many studies on tourists and destination brands, few studies have considered the internal perspective of relevant pu...
Due to the continuous increase of the tourism industry, tourism destinations need to be managed under a sustainable framework, with the main aim of minimizing the adverse effects caused by tourism flows. In recent years, several attempts have been made to measure those effects and value the level of sustainability of every destination. A clear exam...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to identify and describe the most recent (or emerging) trends likely to have a major impact in shaping the future of tourism in Europe.
Design/methodology/approach
The methodology of this paper involved in-depth literature review of European Union policies, initiatives and programs. Also, semi-structured interv...
This study proposes a more integrated tourist behaviour model by including the literatures of destination image and risk perception, and merges the cognitive and affective components of both literatures into a single construct. The structural relationships were analysed using Structural Equation Modelling, and findings indicate that integrated cogn...
This study provides an overview of the current state of affairs in European tourism, considering the latest developments, identifying future challenges and emerging opportunities. It draws a number of conclusions and makes recommendations at an EU policy level that will support the sustainable development of the sector. RESEARCH FOR TRAN COMMITTEE
This research provides a critical approach to the assessment and evaluation of traditional administratively based tourism destinations. It suggests the abandonment of tourist destinations understood as all-inclusive administratively defined areas, readjusting to a more flexible model tied to tourists’ travel patterns. Given the centrality of attrac...
Modern European Destination Management Organisations (DMOs) are mostly tied to public administrations, which implement administrative regulation and policies on tourism within their international, regional or local borders. As such, most DMOs are still attached to their political boundaries, managing and promoting destinations on the basis of admin...
People’s reasons for visiting religious destinations range from being devoted pilgrims to tourists with secular motivations. Rinschede (1992) suggests that it depends on personal needs and motivations. People with special access go to specific shrines for curative purposes. They may be differently motivated and display different behaviors at the de...
Motivations and place attachment constructs have been previously used as antecedents of behavioral intentions regarding a destination. Nevertheless, previous studies investigating behavioral intention models have paid little attention to the influence of motivations on place attachment and the influence of place attachment on behavioral intentions...
In Spain, more than 2.5 million people live with some form of disability (Imserso, 2014). Tourism constraints are defined as factors influencing travel participation and behaviour, and can be divided into three categories: intrapersonal, interpersonal, and structural. The aim of this exploratory study is to develop and validate a measurement scale...
This study analyses perceived risks in international tourism and looks at how several key indicators contribute to the individuals' perception of risk in international travel. The purpose of this article is twofold: firstly, to explore the primary risk dimensions associated with international travel; and secondly, to investigate whether sociodemogr...
Cultural events have become a significant component within the strategies of destination branding of a place. Territories are increasingly using events and cultural festivals to enhance their image and boost tourism development. Many destinations worldwide have built events portfolios as a strategic initiative to attract visitors and to develop the...
ANALISIS DE LOS PERFILES DE CORTA Y LARGA DURACIÓN DE LOS TURISTAS DE OCIO DE BARCELONA
RESUMEN
Este artículo analiza el efecto de la duración de la estancia en relación a los conceptos de motivación, satisfacción, imagen, repetitividad y recomendación. El modelo teórico se basa en la literatura y utiliza una metodología de ecuaciones estructural...
The literature on destination image and risk perception studies was reviewed to provide tourism researchers with a summary of the key cognitive attributes identified in both literatures. A content analysis was conducted, and the main findings revealed an overlap between the attributes assessing each concept in terms of cognition. This is due to the...
Este artículo analiza el comportamiento de los turistas de negocios de la ciudad de Barcelona. Se estudia el efecto de la duración de la estancia en las relaciones de la motivación, la satisfacción, la imagen, la repetitividad y la recomendación. El modelo teórico propuesto se basa en la literatura, plantea 9 hipótesis de trabajo y aporta conocimie...
This article analyses the effect of the length of stay in relation to the constructs of motivation, satisfaction, image, repetition and recommendation. The theoretical model is based on the literature and uses structural equation modelling with multi-group analysis. The size of the sample is 10,953 interviews to tourists. The results confirm most o...
Short break trips in urban destinations are clearly increasing, and this fact has implications for
destinations linked to the different length of stay segments. Thus, this paper analyses the duration of
the stay in relation to motivation, satisfaction, image, repetition and recommendation of leisure
tourists in an urban destination. The main contri...
Traditionally, destinations are regarded as well-defined geographical areas, such as
countries, island or towns. However, destinations are often artificially divided by geographical and political barriers, which fail to take into consideration consumer preferences or tourism industry functions (Buhalis, 2000). The evidence of this can be found in m...
This article analyses tourist demand in relation to the city of Barcelona, with the aim of defining the effect of tourist expenditure on tourist behaviour in urban destinations. The relationships between motivation, satisfaction, length of stay and repeat visits are studied for leisure and business travellers. Tourist expenditure is used as a moder...
This study examines the effect of familiarity on information sources and the length of stay in a destination, and how these concepts, in turn, affect the image perception model. Data was collected from 603 structured personal interviews carried out in Barcelona (Spain) and structural equation modelling methodology was used to test the hypotheses. R...
Purpose
This study aims at exploring whether there are differences in behaviour between people with special access needs and those who do not have these needs at a religious destination. In particular, a comparison is made between the role and structure of the perceived value of accessibility and its effect on satisfaction and loyalty.
Design/meth...
An understanding of expenditure patterns is vital to travel organizers and destination marketers. Using surveys conducted by the Barcelona Tourism Board (Turisme de Barcelona), this study profiled the trip by purpose: leisure or business, and investigated the relationships between travel expenditure, length of stay, repeat visits and satisfaction....
Mountain tourism refers to tourism activities that take place in mountain settings. Previous research has paid attention to many facets of mountain tourism, e.g. mountain tourism planning and development, environmental, socio-cultural and economic impacts of mountain tourism and mountain tourists’ motivations (Godde, Price & Zimmermann, 2000).
Moun...
This book aims to demonstrate to the reader the intrinsic details that have a crucial role to play within the religious tourism and pilgrimage management process. This 2nd edition lays a foundation for scholars, practitioners and students who do not study management, but who are concerned with the appearance and development of religious tourism and...
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between the Free Time Allocation with the Perceived Quality of Life (QoL) and the Satisfaction with Life (SwL) in Greece. A samp le of 353 respondents showed that the Paid Labour is a very important factor in explaining the perceived QoL, followed by the active leisure and to a lesser degree by t...
This document puts into question the conventional way of delineating tourism destinations.
It intends to show a model of spatial analysis, to find new interpretations of the reality,
more balanced and more optimized, in comparison with other territorial views most of them
based on administrative boundaries. This paper portrays a methodological exer...
This paper seeks to describe the processes through which cross-border tourism networks emerge and to identify the main elements that foster the consolidation of shared tourism governance structures. The case study analyses a process that initiates and solidifies cross-border structures in the Cerdanya Valley – Catalan Pyrenees region through a thic...
Research question: Although drivers of customers' behavioural intentions are seen as a necessary source of information to management, there is a scarcity of research in the sports literature. The current study examines an integrated model of behavioural intentions towards dive centres through the simultaneous relationships among service quality, va...
This paper puts into question the conventional way of delineating tourism destination borders in terms of taken-for-granted administrative boundaries. Despite the fact that the literature on destination boundaries advocates for conceptual frameworks where customers’ consumption patterns play a more fundamental role, instances of actual attempts of...
When tourism and border concepts are combined, many interests and unique relationships become evident, although the intersection has many facets: borders as barriers, as destinations, as modifiers of the tourism landscape, as attractions, impediments to travel, motivation for travel. In fact, research in cross-border areas has placed a greater emph...
The tourism cooperatives appeared in the early sixties to meet a new mass phenomenon that exerted excessive pressure on travel agents to be supported individually. Their constant evolution, in parallel with that of the tourist destinations and also with the needs of the tourists, is transforming these cooperatives and directing them forcibly toward...
This article seeks to find potential heritage tourism clusters in border areas. Literature about tourism destinations is essentially focused on administrative-bound areas, while little attention has been paid to functional regions. The research is based on a methodological exercise to contribute to this debate by analyzing the case of three border...
This study investigates the relationship of heritage building and employee displayed emotion with tourist emotions, satisfaction and behavioral intentions, and the moderator effect of knowledge of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites (WHS). A theoretical model was constructed which was teste...
The use of 2.0 web technologies for destination marketing purposes was rising during last years and nowadays the use of social media as marketing tools is an actual hot topic on tourism research.
DMO's also tried to exploit these tools in order to attract the so called digital generation, but they faced the problem of credibility and trust. Tourist...
La informatización de los sistemas de Revenue Management en el turismo es creciente en los últimos años, así como su utilización en empresas turísticas. No obstante el sector hotelero parece ir a una velocidad menor que otros sectores como el aéreo o el marítimo, y las herramientas que se utilizan hoy en día tienen una parte muy elevada de no autom...
En la actualidad, existen diversos debates académicos generados al re de dor de los destinos turísticos, como 1) la propensión o sensibilidad del turista frente a recorrer distancias en función de la motivación por vi si tar un determinado atractivo (Di Matteo, y Di Matteo 1996: 103); 2) la creciente importancia de la gestión territorial de las...
The competitiveness of tourism destinations is a relevant issue for tourism studies, moreso, is a key element on the daily basis of tourism destinations. In this sense, the management of tourism destinations is essential to maintain competitive advantages. In this chapter tourism destination is considered as a relational network, where interaction...
Uno de los temas más controvertidos dentro de la literatura sobre gestión de la innovación es el grado en que estos procesos son controlables y planificables. Esta literatura ha evolucionado desde una posición racional dentro de la cual los procesos de innovación son el resultado de decisiones racionales, intencionadas y debidamente planificadas, a...
El turismo es un sector económico especialmente dinámico, que se encuentra inmerso en un fuerte proceso de reconfiguración, en el que la hiper segmentación de los mercados hace que la demanda haya adquirido un protagonismo especialmente relevante en la configuración de productos turísticos.
Paradójicamente, los destinos no siempre tienen en cuenta...
The competitiveness of tourism destinations is a relevant issue for tourism studies, moreso, is a key element on the daily basis of tourism destinations. In this sense, the management of tourism destinations is essential to maintain competitive advantages. In this chapter tourism destination is considered as a relational network, where interaction...
El turismo es un sector económico especialmente dinámico, que se encuentra en un proceso de fuer-te reconfiguración, en el que la hipersegmentación hace que la demanda haya adquirido un protago-nismo especialmente relevante en la configuración de productos turísticos. En este sentido, este docu-mento pretende determinar modelos de análisis espacial...
The analysis of tourism destinations as territorial agglomerations, that is, industrial districts and clusters, has been given attention in this journal in recent years. In these analyses, tourist companies closely situated in a territory or space are claimed to benefit from available shared resources. These papers, however, do not focus on the key...
Cataluña es la comunidad autónoma de España que actualmente registra una mayor entrada de viajeros en compañías aéreas de bajo coste. La consolidación de estas compañías y su constante expansión, requieren conocer las características de los turistas que nos visitan contratando sus servicios de transporte, en aras de una adecuada planificación y ges...
Over the past few decades, the literature on innovation management has focused on explaining how to be innovative in one’s own organization. Even though there is a variety of prescriptions, a key question in all of the perspectives relates to how manageable the innovation process is.
En este trabajo se presenta un sistema de indicadores de competitividad, basados en el análisis dinámico del excedente bruto de explotación y de sus variables explicativas. La metodología utilizada supone que los fundamentos de la competitividad se encuentran en la capacidad de las empresas para generar los recursos propios necesarios para financia...
En este trabajo partimos del estudio de las fases de desarrollo del turismo en la Costa Brava, polo y destinación turística del mediterráneo catalán. La búsqueda de una mejora del nivel de competilividad del territorio ha llevado hacia modelos de desarrollo del turismo que contemplan de manera relevante aspectos de ámbito social, como la cohesión y...
The computerization of the Revenue Management (RM) systems in the tourism industry has increased in recent years, as well as their uses in tourism companies. Moreover, these systems turned into the on-line management. Although the hotel sector seems to drive a slower speed of implementation of these systems than other sectors like the aerial or the...
We assume that tourism destination is a relational network, where interact the different tourism agents in order to planning and managing the tourism destination. We also assume that tourists arrive there after having a decision-making process where the central element is the tourism destination image, which has been influenced by a range number of...
