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Urban Tourism Competitiveness: Networks and the Regional Asset Base

Department of Economics, University of Peloponnese, Terma Karaiskaki Str., Tripoli, 22100, Greece, daskal{at}uop.gr

Anastasia Petrou

Department of Economics, University of Peloponnese, Terma Karaiskaki Str., Tripoli, 22100, Greece, apetrou{at}uop.gr

Firms are acknowledged to be important actors involved in the deployment of resources available to a tourism destination. In turn, successful tourism firms can contribute to building the competitive advantage of tourism destinations through affecting a destination's tourism product or service. The present study analyses business performance in urban tourism using networks and entrepreneurial perceptions over a city's asset base as a framework of competitive performance. Business performance is measured in terms of productive efficiency—that is, technical and scale efficiency. Results indicate that networks and entrepreneurial perceptions of a city's asset base constitute important determinants of the successful operation of tourism businesses.

Urban Studies, Vol. 46, No. 4, 779-801 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0042098009102129


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