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January 23, 2025
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Analysis of the efficiency of golf tourism via the Internet. Application to the Mediterranean countries

Publicated to: Current Issues in Tourism. 18 (6): 595-608 - 2015-06-03 18(6), DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2013.804806

Authors:

Pastor Ciurana, Jesus T; Del Campo Gomis, Francisco J; Vidal Gimenez, Fernando; Pastor Campos, Diego; Agullo Torres, Asuncion
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Univ Miguel Hernandez, Ctr Invest Deporte, Alicante, Spain - Author
Univ Miguel Hernandez, Ctr Invest Operat, Alicante, Spain - Author
Univ Miguel Hernandez, Dept Econ Agroambiental, Alicante, Spain - Author
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Abstract

This article aims to establish a methodology for comparing golf-tourism efficiency of a set of 14 Mediterranean countries easily using three Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models. We have compared three DEA models. The first model resorts only to physical variables, while the latter two also consider cybermetric variables. Approximately one-third of the 14 analysed Mediterranean countries are rated efficient by any of our models (Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Slovenia, and Spain), while 9 countries appear inefficient in all three models. Our results show that resorting to the model exclusively based on cybermetric variables ranks the non-efficient countries exactly the same way as the model based on physical variables. We have also found an interesting result that gives us a guide for developing golf tourism at the country level.
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Keywords

Data envelopment analysisDeEfficiencyGolf tourismHotelsInternetManagementMediterranean countriesPerformancePgaProgress

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Current Issues in Tourism due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2015, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Geography, Planning and Development.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-02:

  • WoS: 10
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-02:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 31.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 31 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).
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Awards linked to the item

The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support by the Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry (MTM2009-10479 Project) and the Valencian Regional Ministry of Education (ACOMP/2012/144).
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