The perception of Brazilian's internet users about relevant attributes of tourism destination areas

Abstract

This article aims to identify, in the perception of Brazilian tourists, the subjacent structure of the importance of attributes that characterize the tourist places destinations. This research is a survey available on website and answered by 471 Brazilians internet users. It used statistical procedures such as factorial analysis, construct reliability, construction of scales and structural equation modeling for confirmatory factorial analysis. It was concluded that, taken alone, the attributes considered most important were: sensation of visiting a safety place, visual aspect quality of the tourism destination areas, sensation of not being exploited and facilities concerned to the tourism destination areas. These totalized 70.5% of responses. However, taken together, three factors account for 62.2% of variance explained.