![]() ![]() One strand of literature focused on core tourism resources and attractions and institutional arrangements such as destination organization management, destination policy and planning, environmental factors, and tourism industry attributes. Different conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches have been used for defining and measuring destination competitiveness. Theorizing the framework of destination competitiveness has been the main focus of tourism destination competitiveness (TDC) studies in the last two decades ( Crouch and Ritchie, 1999 Dwyer et al., 2004 Enright and Newton, 2004, 2005 Assaker et al., 2013 Kruger and Heath, 2013 Cvelbar et al., 2016 Mendola and Volo, 2017 Fernández et al., 2020). This study revealed that the quality of place helped to better understand the competitiveness of urban tourism. ![]() ![]() Through the quality of place, we can be aware of the indirect negative effect suppressed by the direct positive effect. Although urban tourism competitiveness was directly and positively affected by population, the population had a significant negative effect on urban tourism competitiveness mediated by the quality of place. Furthermore, the study found that there were two opposite influence paths of city size on urban tourism competitiveness. In other words, richer cities had a higher quality of place, and a higher quality of place attracted more tourists but did not increase tourism per capita spending. Results showed that the relationship between urban wealth and tourist arrivals was completely mediated by the quality of place, while the mediating effect was not significant in the relationship between urban wealth and per capita tourism spending, though per capita tourism spending was directly and positively associated with urban wealth. This study selected cities above the “alpha” level in the Globalization and World Cities Research Network rankings as samples to examine the relationship between local demand and urban tourism competitiveness mediated by the quality of place. ![]() Few studies explored the intervening mechanisms between destination attributes and competitiveness. Most studies on tourism destination competitiveness examined the direct relationships of destination attributes and destination competitiveness. ![]()
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