Overview of international tourism competitiveness in Central America and the Caribbean area

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Carlos Jesús Crúz Bracho
María Amparo León Sánchez
Víctor Ernesto Pérez León
Reinier Fernández López

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Tourism is considered the fundamental economic activity for many economies worldwide and is the fastest growing activity in the Caribbean area. With markets in constant change, the competitiveness of tourism destinations is key to differentiate between good tourism management and inefficient management. The most popular international index and the most comprehensive is prepared by the World Economic Forum, which does not include Cuba or several Central American and Caribbean countries. The present work tries precisely to bring the reader closer to the concepts of tourism competitiveness, as well as to the Tourism Competitiveness Index and the situation of Central American and Caribbean countries in it, using the dialectic method as a guideline in the theoretical analysis of the research.

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Crúz Bracho, C. J., León Sánchez, M. A., Pérez León, V. E., & Fernández López, R. (2021). Overview of international tourism competitiveness in Central America and the Caribbean area. Cooperativismo Y Desarrollo, 9(1), 258–283. Retrieved from https://coodes.upr.edu.cu/index.php/coodes/article/view/369
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