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Causal Maps and Indirect Influences Analysis in the Diagnosis of Second‐Home Tourism Impacts
Author(s) -
GarcíaAndreu Hugo,
Ortiz Guadalupe,
Aledo Antonio
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of tourism research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.155
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1522-1970
pISSN - 1099-2340
DOI - 10.1002/jtr.2017
Subject(s) - tourism , identification (biology) , causal analysis , causal model , stakeholder , order (exchange) , politics , network analysis , computer science , marketing , econometrics , operations research , regional science , economics , sociology , business , geography , political science , mathematics , engineering , management , statistics , electrical engineering , law , biology , archaeology , botany , finance
This paper proposes a method for diagnosing the impacts of second‐home tourism and illustrates it for a Mediterranean Spanish destination. This method proposes the application of network analysis software to the analysis of causal maps in order to create a causal network model based on stakeholder‐identified impacts. The main innovation is the analysis of indirect relations in causal maps for the identification of the most influential nodes in the model. The results show that the most influential nodes are of a political nature, which contradicts previous diagnoses identifying technical planning as the ultimate cause of problems. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.