Determinants of tourism destination competitiveness in the countries most visited by international tourists: Proposal of a synthetic index Salinas Fernández, José Antonio Serdeira Azevedo, Paula Martín Martín, José María Rodríguez Martín, José Antonio Tourism destination competitiveness Synthetic index Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index Distance P2 Determinants of tourism competitiveness Tourism destination competitiveness is a multidimensional concept that is widely studied in the academic literature, but multiple factors make its measurement a difficult task. In this article, we design a synthetic index to rank the 80 countries that attract the majority of international tourists by level of tourism competitiveness. In order to do this, we use all of the simple variables included in the 2017 Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index, proposing a new methodology for the construction of this synthetic index, which it solves the problems of aggregation of variables expressed in different measures, arbitrary weighting and duplicity of information; issues that remain unresolved by the TTCI. Likewise, we analyse the most influential dimensions in tourism competitiveness. Air transport infrastructures, cultural resources and ICT readiness are the key dimensions that explain the main disparities. 2024-01-29T10:13:10Z 2024-01-29T10:13:10Z 2019-11-18 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Determinants of tourism destination competitiveness in the countries most visited by international tourists: Proposal of a synthetic index, Tourism Management Perspectives, Volume 33, 2020, 100582, ISSN 2211-9736 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/87455 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2019.100582 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Elsevier