Gay Tourism in a sun and beach destination

Melián-González, A; Moreno-Gil, S; Arana Padilla, JE

Gay Tourism in a sun and beach destination

Melián-González, A Moreno-Gil, S Arana Padilla, JE

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Publisher:: Elsevier Inc
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Tourism Management, 2011, 32 pp. 1027 - 1037
Issue Date:: 2011-01

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dc.contributor.author	Melián-González, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Moreno-Gil, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Arana Padilla, JE	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Tourism Management, 2011, 32 pp. 1027 - 1037	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0261-5177	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/28809
dc.description.abstract	Gay tourism is seen as an attractive business opportunity for many destinations. However, there is a lack of research at identifying the resources necessary for success in this type of tourism. This work is aimed at fi lling this gap by using the premises of the resource based view and transfers them to the analysis of territories to identify the valuable resources that are required for a sun and beach destination to attract gay tourists. To this end, this study has focused on a gay tourism sub niche, tourists lodged in gay- exclusive resorts in Gran Canaria. In order to con fi rm the validity of this approach, the relationship between the satisfaction of gay tourists and the condition of the valuable resources was studied by means of a robust statistical new method, namely Bayesian model averaging. That method permits the inclusion of uncertainty in the theoretical models that determine destination competitiveness, thus reducing many of the problems that arise in the application of the more conventional statistical methods in this type of analysis.	en_US
dc.publisher	Elsevier Inc	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Tourism Management	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.tourman.2010.08.015	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Sport, Leisure & Tourism	en_US
dc.title	Gay Tourism in a sun and beach destination	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	32	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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Abstract:

Gay tourism is seen as an attractive business opportunity for many destinations. However, there is a lack of research at identifying the resources necessary for success in this type of tourism. This work is aimed at fi lling this gap by using the premises of the resource based view and transfers them to the analysis of territories to identify the valuable resources that are required for a sun and beach destination to attract gay tourists. To this end, this study has focused on a gay tourism sub niche, tourists lodged in gay- exclusive resorts in Gran Canaria. In order to con fi rm the validity of this approach, the relationship between the satisfaction of gay tourists and the condition of the valuable resources was studied by means of a robust statistical new method, namely Bayesian model averaging. That method permits the inclusion of uncertainty in the theoretical models that determine destination competitiveness, thus reducing many of the problems that arise in the application of the more conventional statistical methods in this type of analysis.

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