ORCID
- Sheela Agarwal: 0000-0003-1698-908X
Abstract
Within urban and tourism studies, although much research has focused on uneven city prosperity and competitiveness, little is known about factors influencing seaside town economic performance. We adopt a place-based approach to understand its determinants amongst 58 of England’s largest seaside towns drawing on a bespoke database. Through Partial Least Square analysis, Spearman’s Rank Correlation and general linear regression modelling for panel data with random effects, we identify the ‘leaders’ and ‘laggers’ along with a set of associated socio-economic characteristics. These insights enhance understanding of how and why economic performance differs amongst these towns. We highlight implications for addressing such socio-economic disparities across seaside towns, which has wider destination relevance, and use these findings to inform policy which seeks to raise the productivity potential of ‘lagging’ towns.
DOI Link
Publication Date
2023-07-13
Publication Title
Current Issues in Tourism
ISSN
1368-3500
Acceptance Date
2023-07-03
Deposit Date
2023-07-14
Embargo Period
2023-09-29
Keywords
Economic performance, productivity, leading, lagging, seaside towns
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
First Page
2631
Last Page
2648
Recommended Citation
Agarwal, S., Jakes, S., Rahman, S., & Page, S. (2023) 'Economic performance amongst English seaside towns', Current Issues in Tourism, , pp. 2631-2648. Available at: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2234070
