<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Globalisation on the tourism market causes that the competition is not formed only between stakeholders in a destination, but more and more it is created among destinations. Therefore tourism stakeholders in a destination have to act together and cooperate. The cooperative behaviour of destination stakeholders is seen as a main prerequisite of applying the cooperative destination management, which influences the competitiveness of destination on tourism market.</p><p>The aim of the paper is to analyse and measure cooperation of stakeholders in the selected destinations in Slovakia and Switzerland and to show the contribution of the network analysis to the quantitative research in tourism destinations. The article presents the network analysis of cooperation in product development and integrated marketing communication in the High Tatras, Liptov, Davos - Klosters and Engadin St. Moritz. The measurement of the cooperative behaviour helps to better understand the problems of cooperative destination management and creates a tool for comparing the destinations.</p></abstract>

Globalisation on the tourism market causes that the competition is not formed only between stakeholders in a destination, but more and more it is created among destinations. Therefore tourism stakeholders in a destination have to act together and cooperate. The cooperative behaviour of destination stakeholders is seen as a main prerequisite of applying the cooperative destination management, which influences the competitiveness of destination on tourism market.The aim of the paper is to analyse and measure cooperation of stakeholders in the selected destinations in Slovakia and Switzerland and to show the contribution of the network analysis to the quantitative research in tourism destinations. The article presents the network analysis of cooperation in product development and integrated marketing communication in the High Tatras, Liptov, Davos - Klosters and Engadin St. Moritz. The measurement of the cooperative behaviour helps to better understand the problems of cooperative destination management and creates a tool for comparing the destinations.

Network Analysis of Cooperation in Tourism Destinations

Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

Czech Journal of Tourism

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Globalisation on the tourism market causes that the competition is not formed only between stakeholders in a destination, but more and more it is created among...

Network Analysis of Cooperation in Tourism Destinations

Publicado en línea: 04 feb 2016

Páginas: 26 - 44

Aceptado: 11 ago 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cjot-2015-0002

Palabras clave
Cooperation, DMO, network analysis, stakeholders, tourism destinations

© by Tomáš Gajdošík

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Network Analysis of Cooperation in Tourism Destinations

Publicado en línea: 04 feb 2016

Páginas: 26 - 44

Aceptado: 11 ago 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cjot-2015-0002

Palabras claveCooperation, DMO, network analysis, stakeholders, tourism destinations

© by Tomáš Gajdošík

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Palabras clave
Cooperation, DMO, network analysis, stakeholders, tourism destinations