Official tourist destination websites: hierarchical analysis and assessment with ELECTRE-III-H

Official websites are important communication tools for tourist destinations. However, it is difficult to make a systematic and complete evaluation of their quality due to their diversity of functionalities, which makes them complex to analyse. This paper proposes the complementation of the WQI asse...

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Autores: Vasto Terrientes, Luis del, Fernández Cavia, Josep, 1963-, Huertas Roig, Asunción, Moreno, Antonio, Valls, Aida
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/32728
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/32728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2015.03.004
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Website assessment
Website communication
Destination brand communication
Hierarchical indicators
Decision support systems
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Resumo:Official websites are important communication tools for tourist destinations. However, it is difficult to make a systematic and complete evaluation of their quality due to their diversity of functionalities, which makes them complex to analyse. This paper proposes the complementation of the WQI assessment system for Destination Marketing Organizations with the Multi-criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) method ELECTRE. WQI assessment system contains several indicators (123) that can be organised in a hierarchical structure, which makes suitable the application of ELECTRE-III-H. ELECTRE-III-H method is able to reveal relevant preference relations among the websites with regard to different aspects (e.g., usability, architecture or persuasiveness), being a powerful tool to detect the strong and weak points of each website. The study is illustrated with the results of a pilot test that evaluates 10 touristic destination websites.