RT Journal Article
T1 Sustainable tourism evaluation using a composite indicator with different  compensatory levels
T2 Evaluación del turismo sostenible mediante un indicador compuesto con diferentes niveles compensatorios
A1 Blancas Peral, Francisco Javier
A1 Lozano-Oyola, Macarena
K1 Sustainable tourism
K1 Composite indicator
K1 Borda-Condorcet rule
K1 Non-compensatory
K1 Acceso solo a metadatos
AB The use of composite indicators for the evaluation of sustainable tourism is an option widely used in the literature. Among the works proposed, two major contrasting approaches can be distinguished, differentiated by the degree of compensation allowed between the indicators of the starting system. On the one hand, there are synthetic indicators with additive or multiplicative aggregation where a compensation between the base indicators is admitted. On the other hand, there exist composite indicators with multi-criteria aggregation where compensation between indicators is not permitted. In this study a composite indicator is suggested that combines both approaches by performing an aggregation with different levels of compensation in different phases. This depends on the structure given to the starting system, combining different aggregation methods. Methodologically, additive aggregation at the most basic levels is applied, using weights according to the amount of information provided by each indicator, enabling a total compensation at this stage. Aggregation at the higher levels of the system is performed using a non-compensatory aggregation by means of the Borda-Condorcet method, whose cardinality allows the improvement of other non-compensatory proposals. To show the potential of the proposed indicator, an empirical study is presented to evaluate sustainable tourism in the tourist destinations with the highest demand in Andalusia (Spain).
PB Elseiver
YR 2022
FD 2022-03
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/19690
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/19690
LA en
NO Blancas, F. J., & Lozano-Oyola, M. (2022). Sustainable tourism evaluation using a composite indicator with different compensatory levels. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 93, 106733.
NO This work was supported by grants from the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [PGC2018-095786-B-IOO and PID2019-104263RB-C41].
NO Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Departamento de Economía, Métodos Cuantitativos e Historia Económica
DS RIO
RD May 8, 2026