Víctor Ernesto Pérez León

• Ph.D.
• Lecturer at University of Seville

This study aims to measure how far 26 EU countries are from the safe and just space (SJS) defined in the Doughnut Economics framework by calculating the distance for all social and environmental dimensions and using two synthetic indices for safe space and just space. The distance was measured as a percentage of the threshold to be reached. Therefo...

The aim of this research was to assess the learning efficacy and level of satisfaction of university students as they adapted to the online teaching model amid the restrictions imposed as a result of COVID-19. The sample consisted of 467 students attending a public University of Spain. The study applied a structural equations methodology with a tri...

TData Envelopment Analysis is among the most frequently used methods to create composite indices in sustainability measurement. The present study aims to contribute toward the use of this methodology thanks to its ability either to seek an individual weighting scheme for each destination or to use a common set of weights for all the alternatives. T...

Purpose This study aims to present diverse proposals for the measurement of tourism destination competitiveness that serve as alternatives to the travel and tourism competitiveness index (TTCI). Design/methodology/approach The proposal includes principal component analysis, the DP2-distance method, goal programming, data envelopment analysis and t...

This paper aims to assess the sustainability of tourism destinations. To this end, various methodologies have been considered, among which composite indicators constitutes a valuable tool. A non-compensatory methodology has been applied in order to address the problem caused by the compensation of low values in certain indicators of a particular de...

El uso de Internet y el desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías han provocado importantes cambios en la enseñanza y en el aprendizaje de los estudiantes de educación superior. La pandemia provocada por la Covid-19 ha hecho que muchas universidades hayan tenido que transferir sus actividades presenciales a la docencia online. Por este motivo, el objeti...

En el presente estudio propone un índice para medir la competitividad de los destinos turísticos en la región del Caribe creado a partir de la Programación por Metas y su combinación con el Análisis Envolvente de Datos. El propósito de la aplicación es suplir la ausencia de los destinos caribeños en los rankings internacionales y analizar la posibi...

This study presents a new method for measuring tourism destination competitiveness based on data covering a specific time span. Issues, such as the type of data gathered, tools and methods employed, and the size and number of destinations, are addressed, as is the consideration of a specified time period. The proposal is based on the information gi...

El turismo es considerado como la actividad económica fundamental para muchas economías a nivel mundial y es la actividad de mayor crecimiento en el área del Caribe. Con los mercados en constante cambio, la competitividad de los destinos turísticos se hace clave para diferenciar entre una buena gestión del turismo y una gestión ineficiente. El índi...

Tourism is considered the fundamental economic activity for many economies worldwide and is the fastest growing activity in the Caribbean area. With markets in constant change, the competitiveness of tourism destinations is key to differentiate between good tourism management and inefficient management. The most popular international index and the...

The use of the Internet to develop new technologies has generated a considerable change in teaching and student learning in higher education. The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has forced universities to switch from face-to-face to online instruction. Furthermore, this transfer process was planned and executed quickly, with urgent redesigns of courses...

This study aims to propose an index for measuring tourism destination competitiveness in the Caribbean Region. The application purpose is to fill the absence of Caribbean destinations in international rankings. Thirty three destinations and 27 indicators were considered, grouped into the 4 sub‐indexes of the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index...

En el presente trabajo se estudia la respuesta de la esbeltez a la fertilización mineral fraccionada en plantaciones de Pinus caribaea var caribaea Morelet y Golfari sobre suelos franco-arenosos en el occidente de Cuba. La fórmula de fertilizante utilizada fue NPK (8-10-10). Se establecieron siete tratamientos diferenciados por las dosis de fertili...

En el actual contexto, la cadena de valor es una herramienta básica para examinar las actividades que se ejecutan en las empresas, añadiendo valor al producto final. El presente trabajo tuvo como objetivo contribuir a la optimización de la cadena de valor de los procesos productivos, aplicando el método multicriterio Analitic Hierarchy Process (AHP...

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The aim of this research consists of measuring the sustainability degree for tourism destinations considering the stakeholder's preferences. Their opinions were included in the overall process during the choice of the initial indicators and determining the weights. Additionally, in the aggregation process, a sustainability index was calculated with...

Existen estudios encaminados a analizar el efecto de la fertilización mineral sobre variables dasométricas en plantaciones productivas. En su mayoría, estos analizan la respuesta de la fertilización a corto plazo. Por ello, la presente investigación estudia la respuesta de la fertilización mineral a largo plazo aplicada de forma fraccionada durante...

Tourism sustainability evaluation has become an important issue in the development of this economic industry due to its dependence on natural environment quality and social acceptance. The study shows different ways to measure sustainability by means of composite indicators obtained from an initial set of quantitative and qualitative information. T...

Small hydro power plants are considered strategic in the expansion projects at the National Energy Plan in Brazil. However, it is not clear how this expansion can effectively occur, considering that only hydraulic potential is not sufficient enough to guarantee it. In this sense, the main objective of the present research is to identify the key lim...

Some studies focus on the analysis of the effect of mineral fertilization on variables associated with tree growth in productive plantations. They mainly analyze the short-term response to fertilization. The aim of this research is therefore to analyze the long-term response to mineral fertilization, applied fractionally over the first five years o...

The present investigation gives a modelling for the economic valuation of environmental goods and services (EGS) in Viñales National Park by means of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA). Individual preferences are obtained from experts and resistant and robust index, such as Trimean and quartile variation co...

The main objective of this paper consists in building a composite indicator that allows measuring the sustainability of tourist destinations starting from quantitative indicators, representative of sustainable tourism concept. The proposal is made by the combination of Goal Programming (GP) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), in such a way as to a...

The conceptualization of Total Economic Value (TEV) associated with protected natural areas necessarily requires an analytical reordering that ensures a simultaneous incorporation of natural, social and economic components. Based on this purpose, the present paper uses a multi-criteria decision modeling for the economic valuation of environmental g...

El presente estudio tiene como objetivo crear un indicador sintético para medir la sostenibilidad de los destinos turísticos a partir de indicadores cuantitativos, representativos del concepto de desarrollo sostenible del turismo. La propuesta se confecciona mediante la combinación de la Programación por Metas (GP) y el Análisis Envolvente de Datos...

La valoración económica de bienes y servicios ambientales constituye un importante reto para la ciencia económica en busca de un reordenamiento en la concepción acerca del valor económico asociado a los espacios naturales. Por tal motivo, el objetivo general de este trabajo consiste en diseñar las bases teórico metodológicas para la valoración econ...

The environmental economic valuation of natural resources represents an important mechanism to get an improvement in the natural resources management. In the case of protected areas, the using of a multicriteria modeling as a tool for the economic valuation of Environmental Goods and Services, constitutes an useful tool that provides the incorporat...

The economic valuation of environmental goods and services demand, as a necessity, a deep change in the conception about the economic value associated to the natural spaces that guarantee the integration of their natural, social and economic components. That´s why, the present investigation offers a multicriteria modelling starting from methods lik...

The processes of economic valuation of Environmental Goods and Services (EGS) include new conceptions or methodologies in their conceptualization about the economic value in the natural space, measuring and evaluation of the associate changes in the individual's social welfare, which demonstrates their viability for the decisions making process ass...

En la actualidad el turismo se presenta como alternativa de desarrollo para muchas economías, producto de lo cual constituye una de las actividades económicas de mayor crecimiento en los últimos años. A pesar de sus reconocidas ventajas, provoca afectaciones al entorno donde tiene lugar, producto de lo cual se han diseñado instrumentos para garanti...

A lot of multicriteria modelling methods are based on relative importance valuations from several criteria given by expert groups, which should be aggregated to obtain weights as a final result. The present investigation gives a modelling for the economic valuation of Environmental Goods and Services (EGS) in Viñales National Park by means of multi...

The management of tourist sustainability constitutes a special attention theme for the managers of destinations, that´s why, several tools have been developed for the measurement of the sustainability in tourist destinations. In that sense, the present investigation approaches the utility of the indicators as tools to measure the sustainability, an...

The processes of economic valuation of Environmental Goods and Services include new conceptions or methodologies in their conceptualization about the economic value in the natural space, measuring and evaluation of the associate changes in the individual's social welfare, which demonstrates their viability for the decisions making process associate...

Environmental economic assessment of natural resources greatly contributes to economic decision-making process associated with their management improvement. Regarding wildlife reserves, a multicriteria pattern to economically assess environmental goods and services has proved to be a useful tool in articulating a variety of natural, economic, and s...

The activity of the enterprise and in particular of the cooperatives, it constitutes a system that is characterized in a significant way by internal and external social interactions and their social objective is fulfilled through the relationship between people and with groups, reason why it should locate its economic objective inside certain integ...

Tourism is one of the most dynamic sectors of worldwide economy; therefore, its development in the present context, assists to be economically viable, socially compatible and provides the lowest damage to the resources in the zone that it takes place. This only consists in guaranteeing the sustainability of this activity. For this purpose, the deve...

The introduction of new tourist products is one of the options of the Ministry of Tourism in Cuba (MINTUR) to increase the tourist sector development and to obtain more benefits for the country. This work applies discrete Multicriteria Decision Making techniques to aid the Tourism Ministry Delegation in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, in the process of decisi...

La actividad de la empresa y en particular de las cooperativas, constituye un sistema que se caracteriza de manera significativa por interacciones sociales internas y externas y su objetivo social se cumple a través de la relación con personas y con grupos, por lo cual debe ubicar su objetivo económico dentro de determinado contexto integral. La co...

El turismo es uno de los sectores más dinámicos de la economía a nivel mundial, por lo que se pretende que su desarrollo en el contexto actual sea económicamente viable, socialmente compatible y que ocasione el menor daño posible de los recursos de la zona donde tiene lugar. Esto no es más que garantizar que esta actividad sea sostenible. Para ello...