Propuesta metodológica para la identificación de micro-destinos y la generación información estadística en Canarias

  1. Yurena Rodríguez Rodríguez 1
  2. Raúl Hernández Martín 1
  3. Moisés R. Simancas Cruz 1
  4. Jesús Alberto González Yanes 2
  5. Yenis M. González Mora 2
  6. Juan Israel García Cruz 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Laguna
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    Universidad de La Laguna

    San Cristobal de La Laguna, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01r9z8p25

  2. 2 Instituto Canario de Estadística
Book:
II Foro Internacional de Turismo Maspalomas Costa Canaria (FITMCC)
  1. Benítez del Rosario, Juan Manuel (coord.)
  2. Antonio González Molina (coord.)
  3. Claudia Breede Eyzaguirre (coord.)

Publisher: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

ISBN: 978-84-9042-158-1

Year of publication: 2014

Pages: 946-960

Congress: Foro Internacional de Turismo Maspalomas Costa Canaria (2. 2014. Maspalomas)

Type: Conference paper

Abstract

Municipalities and regions are often used as an object of tourism analysis at the subnational level. This occurs because administrative borders are used to implement tourism policies and collect statistical information. However, administrative boundaries may not always be suitable for studying tourism destinations at a local level. Sometimes, particularly in high-density tourism destinations, several differentiated tourism areas occupy a single municipality; tourism areas may, and often do, extend beyond municipal boundaries and tourism destinations may not occupy the whole of the municipal area. As such, a new level of analysis is often required: the micro- destination. This paper presents six criteria for establishing the boundaries of this type of tourism area. These criteria have been applied as part of a pilot study in the Canary Islands. Statistical information for 49 micro-destinations is generated.