Listar por autor "Font, Xavier"
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A multi-criteria, composite index methodology to measure the suitability of target markets for the hotel industry.
Gallego-Galán, Inmaculada
; González-Rodríguez, Rosario; Font, Xavier (Elsevier, 2023)
This article presents a multi-criteria methodology to identify target markets for the hotel industry, based on objective and quantitative criteria from official statistical sources, using five dimensions: volume, evolution, ... -
Balancing economic benefits and environmental costs: Introducing carbon footprint indicators in tourist market targeting.
Gallego-Galán, Inmaculada; Font, Xavier; Torres-Delgado, Anna (Elsevier, 2024-10-09)
We argue that governments’ decisions to target certain tourist markets must consider both benefits and costs. We design a composite indicator methodology to assess economic benefits, using six classic indicators of market ... -
Changes in air passenger demand as a result of the COVID-19 crisis: using Big Data to inform tourism policy.
Gallego-Galán, Inmaculada; Font, Xavier (Taylor & Francis, 2020-06-05)
This paper develops a methodology for the early detection of reactivation of tourist markets to help mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 crisis, using Skyscanner data on air passenger searches (>5,000 million) and picks ... -
International air travel attitude and travel planning lead times across 45 countries in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gallego-Galán, Inmaculada; González-Rodríguez, Rosario; Font, Xavier (Elsevier, 2022-10)
This paper explores global differences in travel risk perception based on i) attitudes towards travel abroad, and ii) the time required to plan travel. Baseline data from 2019 is compared with data from 2020, the first ... -
Measuring the vulnerability of tourist destinations to the availability of air transport, using multi-criteria composite indexes.
Gallego-Galán, Inmaculada; Font, Xavier (Elsevier, 2019-10-15)
Tourist destinations are vulnerable to the decisions of commercial stakeholders that may have different organisational priorities to theirs. A high level of tourism concentration, and dependence on certain airports and ... -
The impact of COVID-19 on European tourists’ attitudes to air travel and the consequences for tourist destination evoked set formation.
Gallego-Galán, Inmaculada; Font, Xavier; González-Rodríguez, Rosario (Elsevier, 2022)
We study how risk conditions derived from the COVID-19 pandemic may impact on both the desire to travel and intention to visit of tourists and, therefore, on different stages of the destination choice process. We analyse ...