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
10.1080/13683500.2023.2234070
Publication Date
2023-07-13
Publication Title
Current Issues in Tourism
ISSN
1368-3500
Embargo Period
2023-09-29
Organisational Unit
Plymouth Business School
Recommended Citation
Mould, S., & Jakes, S. (2023) 'Economic performance amongst English seaside towns', Current Issues in Tourism, . Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2234070
