Reseña de la competitividad turística internacional en el área de Centroamérica y el Caribe

  1. Crúz Bracho, Carlos Jesús 1
  2. León Sánchez, María Amparo 1
  3. Pérez León, Víctor Ernesto 2
  4. Fernández López, Reinier 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Pinar del Río "Hermanos Saíz Montes de Oca". Facultad de Ciencias Técnicas. Departamento de Matemáticas
  2. 2 Universidad de Sevilla. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales. Departamento de Economía Aplicada II
Journal:
Cooperativismo y Desarrollo: COODES

ISSN: 2310-340X

Year of publication: 2021

Issue Title: enero-abril

Volume: 9

Issue: 1

Pages: 258-283

Type: Article

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Abstract

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 most comprehensive is prepared by the World Economic Forum, which does not include Cuba or several Central American and Caribbean countries. The present work tries precisely to bring the reader closer to the concepts of tourism competitiveness, as well as to the Tourism Competitiveness Index and the situation of Central American and Caribbean countries in it, using the dialectic method as a guideline in the theoretical analysis of the research.

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