旅游竞争力因素的鉴定与评估的可行性研究外文翻译.docVIP

外文翻译 原文 The Possibilities for the Identification and Evaluation of Tourism Sector Competitiveness Factors Material Source: ISSN 1392-2785 ENGINEERING ECONOMICS. 2009. No 1 (61) Author: Valentinas Navickas, Asta Malakauskaite Tourism is to be considered a greatly important part of urban development, as it combines a competitive supply of tourism services, which corresponds to the expectations of tourists, and a positive impact on the development of regions and cities, as well as general prosperity of their citizens (European Commission Tourism Unit, 2008). The competitiveness of tourist destinations becomes increasingly important to the countries that intend to control a large share of rapidly growing tourism market. That is particularly important to the tourism-dependant countries, which heavily rely on the situation in tourism and travel industry. It can be emphasized that the relevance of tourism sector increases in the economy of other countries as well, even if they rely on the development of other industries rather than tourism sector (Gooroochurn, Sugiyarto, 2004). Therefore the analysis of tourism sector competitiveness factors is significant in both scientific and practical aspects. The Competitiveness Monitor and the system of competitiveness factors When defining and creating the structure of CM, it is important to identify the elements of competitiveness evaluation. According to the study carried out by the authors of this article, the multi-layer nature of competitiveness is the reason for difficulties in the evaluation process. These difficulties are generally related to the structure of the Monitor, as well as links between the elements of CM. Price competitiveness is considered to be a particularly important tourist destination competitiveness factor, which dominates in the model of CM. Lim (1997), Durbarry and Sinclair (2003).they propose that price has a direct impact on the demand of tourism services. Some authors (Dwyer et