IS CULTURAL HERITAGE REALLY IMPORTANT FOR TOURISTS? A CONTINGENT RATING STUDY

Tiziana Cuccia (1) , Roberto Cellini (2)

1 Economics
2 Economics

In this paper we present the results of a contingent rating study carried out on a sample of tourisits visiting Scicli, a Sicilian town known for its baroque heritage. In particular, we focus on different attributes of tourism products -namely, season, accommodation and cultural heritage- to study how much each of these attributes weights in tourists' preferences. We also study how the socio-demographic characteristics of people affect their evaluation of the different attributes of tourism products. The heritage endowment appears to be far from being the most important factor; this result is consistent across different socio-demographic sub-groups of interviewed persons.

Mots clés: Social Sciences & Humanities

Tiziana Cuccia, Roberto Cellini. IS CULTURAL HERITAGE REALLY IMPORTANT FOR TOURISTS? A CONTINGENT RATING STUDY. Applied Economics, 2006, 39 (02), pp.261-271. ⟨10.1080/00036840500427981⟩. ⟨hal-00581939⟩