Fonte: Journal of Tourism & Development; n. 25 (2016); 117 - 129
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Resumo: This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the factors that influence the business tourism worldwide, in order to assess touristic competence of the countries in this segment and prescribe them a set of strategic guidelines to gain market share in the international context. For the development of this empirical research, an exploratory analysis of spatial data was performed using the OPENGEODA 1.3.15 software and data from 136 countries worldwide were collected concerning the years 2005 and 2009. Results of the research reveal that, for the development of policies to stimulate the growth in business tourism segment, policy makers and economic agents should develop measures that encourage capital investment in tourism and leisure tourism. However, they should not take into consideration geographical issues in their strategic decisions. Nevertheless, these suggestions have to be tested in thecontext of a future confirmatory analysis.
