The impact of marine water quality on tourism demand: an application of geospatial big data to the Mediterranean Spanish coast
- María Luz Maté Sánchez-Val 1
- Genoveva Aparicio Serrano 1
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Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
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Year of publication: 2021
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
Tourism sector is highly dependent on environmental quality. In Spain, the tourism sectoris a key driver for the whole economy. In that context, this study aims at analysing theeffect of environmental quality on tourism demand, to test whether a movement of visitorsalong the Mediterranean Spanish coast has occurred. Seemingly Unrelated Regressionmodel has been applied over a sample of 101 Spanish municipalities from the last sevenyears. The results confirm a convergence process of visitors from traditional seasidetourist destinations to previously less crowded tourist sites, whose natural and physicalenvironment shows a better natural conservation.