RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Towards a Sustainable Tourism Competitiveness Measurement Model for Municipalities: Brazilian Empirical Evidence T2 Hacia una competitividad de medición turismo sostenible modelo para municipios: evidencia empírica de Brasil A1 Alves, Simone A1 Ramos Nogueira, Antônio Roberto K1 Turismo sostenible K1 Competitividad K1 Constructos formativos K1 Competitividad de destinos K1 Modelo de medida K1 Brasil AB This study aims to contribute to sustainable tourism destination competitiveness research byproposing a systemic model for identifying the factors that impact Brazilian municipalities’ ability to createand integrate value -added tourism products to meet the needs of local communities and visitors and maintainthe tourism competitiveness. It proposes that the available destination competitiveness models can be dividedinto three groups: i) aggregate indices; ii) conceptual and descriptive; and iii) explanatory and predictive.Six sustainable tourism competitiveness determinant factors were formulated: Tourism Infrastructure,Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure, Education, Heritage and Culture, SocioeconomicDevelopment and Environmental Preservation. Four dependent factors related to tourism activity success werealso postulated: Tourism Flow, Jobs, Wages and Revenue. All constructs were based on secondary indicatorsfor Brazil’s 5,565 municipalities. The theoretical model was tested using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). PB Instituto Universitario de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales. Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife, España) YR 2015 FD 2015 LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/16301 UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/16301 LA en DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna RD 28-mar-2024