Abstract
In coastal tourist destinations, there is nightlife, in addition to daytime leisure. For tourism development, it is of great relevance to take into account the resident population and their attitudes. In this paper, a comparison is made between Ibiza (Spain) and Punta del Este (Uruguay) in relation to the residents’ attitudes towards nightlife. Specifically, the comparison is made by a descending cluster analysis, generating four groups of residents according to their attitudes (Enthusiasts, Moderates, Critics, and Negatives), and the distribution of these groups in the two regions is then compared. The most notable result is that the degree of acceptance of nightlife is low in both cases, possibly due to the problems attributed to it, but the score is slightly higher in the case of Punta del Este. In addition, the profile of those opposed to nightlife is different: In Ibiza, Critics predominate, with a generally contrary response, but recognizing positive elements, whilst in Punta del Este, Negatives predominate, with systematically negative responses to all items.
Highlights
One of the peculiarities of the tourism sector is that there is direct contact between the residents of the producing area and the client—tourists—who by definition are not part of the resident population
There are no differences in the level of satisfaction that residents feel for the local nightlife supply, despite the significant differences in the development and prestige of nightlife in both regions
The level of acceptance of nightlife is low in both tourist destinations, in Punta del Este, the residents have a slightly higher level of acceptance
Summary
One of the peculiarities of the tourism sector is that there is direct contact between the residents of the producing area and the client—tourists—who by definition are not part of the resident population This contact requires residents to be taken into account in the management of the sector, since the quality of the service would otherwise be seriously affected and the sector would not be sustainable in the long term (Besculides, Lee, & McCormick, 2002; Gursoy, Jurowski, & Uysal, 2002). This is materialized in the need to take into account the attitudes and opinions of residents in planning tourist destinations (Ap, & Crompton, 1998; Maddox, 1985). The nightlife supply in urban tourist destinations such as Barcelona (Nofre, Giordano, Eldridge, Martins, & Sequera, 2018), Belgrade (Todorovic, & Bakir, 2005), Berlin (Garcia, 2018), Lisbon (Nofre, 2013; Nofre et al, 2019), London (Andersson, 2011; Garcia, 2018), Madrid (Aramayona, & García, 2019), New York (Houser, 2018; Rees, 2019), and Sydney (Homan, 2019) is important, but it has a different profile in those cases
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