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competitiveness are based on the work of Porter, but prior to this, the issue of competitiveness was developed as a scientific discipline by Smith in the late 70’s. Due to the reason that tourism is primarily a service driven industry, tourism researchers had to adjust definitions, develop new models and identify factors that would be applicable to the tourism industry. Crouch and Ritchie (1999) developed the concept of destination competitiveness and, according to the authors, it consists of the ability of a given destination to provide higher quality tourism experiences compared to other destinations.

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