Place-based amenities, well-being and territorial competitiveness: a new approach using tourists’ happiness

Bernini, Cristina ; Cerqua, Augusto ; Pellegrini, Guido (2016) Place-based amenities, well-being and territorial competitiveness: a new approach using tourists’ happiness. [Preprint]
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Abstract

The well-being generated by each place is an unobservable characteristic affecting local competitiveness and territorial growth. In evaluating local well-being, the use of residents’ perceptions may generate biased evaluations. Alternatively, a revealed-preference analysis of tourists’ happiness might be exploited to assess the quality of life at the destination. Then, we develop a hedonic utility function to analyze a huge and original dataset of foreign tourists’ satisfaction, visiting Italy over 2005-2014, on a large number of place-based amenities. Results show a great diversity in the mix of features that affect tourist well-being at each destination, indicating strong heterogeneity in place-based amenities, correlated in space. The presence of spatially correlated common factors of competitiveness asks for coordinated action plans on the part of local and regional authorities.

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Bernini, CristinaDepartment of Statistical Sciences - University of Bologna, Italy
Cerqua, AugustoDepartment of Economics and Quantitative Method - University of Westminster, UK
Pellegrini, GuidoDepartment of Social and Economic Sciences - Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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: subjective well-being, revealed preferences, tourists, place-based amenities, territorial competitiveness.
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23 Ago 2016 11:40
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