The evaluation of tourism destination competitiveness by TOPSIS & information entropy – A case in the Yangtze River Delta of China

By Hong Zhang, Chaolin Gu, Luwen Gu, Yan Zhang. 2011

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Regional tourism competitiveness using the PROMETHEE approach (2018, methodology): “Most of these methodologies propose either an individual assessment or a comparative ranking system (Marti & Puertas, 2016; Zhang et al., 2011; Zhou, Maumbe, Deng, & Selin, 2015).”
Determinants of tourism destination competitiveness in the countries most visited by international tourists: Proposal of a synthetic index (2020, background): “…on the subject has been applied to various regions within a country, as in the cases of Cracolici and Nijkamp (2008), and Cracolici, Nijkamp, and Rietveld (2008), which focus on 103 Italian provinces, Croes (2011) on 16 Caribbean Islands, and Zhang, Gu, Gu, and Zhang (2011) on 16 Chinese cities.”
Spatial network structure of the tourism economy in urban agglomeration: A social network analysis (2021, unknown): “Besides, the tourism economic quality not only needs to reflect the industrial scale but also indicate the industry performance (Zhang, Gu, Gu, & Zhang, 2011).”
Destination competitiveness: what we know, what we know but shouldn't and what we don't know but should (2016, methodology): “…& Nijkamp, 2009), cluster analysis (Estevao & Ferreira, 2012; Gooroochurn & Sugiyarto, 2005), structural equation modelling (SEM) (Assaker, Hallak, Vinzi, & O’Connor, 2013), and a technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) (Huang & Peng, 2012; Zhang et al., 2011).”