Tolerance, Talent, and Attraction of Creative Workers in Tourism Destinations (Insights from the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

ABSTRACT

This article seeks to analyze the municipal distribution of creative workers in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and specifically to explore how tourism destinations behave in relation to their ability to attract them. Thereby, it provides empirical evidence to demonstrate where the different subgroups of creative workers (professional, super-creative, and bohemian) are attracted to, and what factors of attraction (tolerance, talent, technology, and territory) influence their location in 110 municipalities of the province. The results highlight that human factors (talent and tolerance) are the fundamental ones and that the location of bohemians and super-creative has the greatest significant correlations with the conditions of place.

KEYWORDS:

• Creative workers
• tourism destinations residential attractiveness
• urban development
• Buenos Aires

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1 Number of hotels, lodgings, and other places licensed by the Ministry of Tourism for the year 2016. The establishments included by the Ministry are classified as apart hotel, one-star hotel, two-star hotel, three-star hotel, four-star hotel, boutique hotel, uncategorized hotel, union/mutual hotel, motel, hostel/B&B, hostel, cabins/bungalows, tourist complex, rural establishment, lodging, inn, residential, camping site and tourist units set. We include classified establishments as a university residence as well as unclassified ones.

2 Number of homes that could be used for tourists. According to the 2010 census, houses that are uninhabited because they are used temporarily for vacations or weekends are listed as VPUT. To determine the number of beds, multiply by 4 people, which is the housing occupancy average.

3 Obtaining the expected values or frequency (f^e) under the hypothesis of independence is calculated as:f^e _ij = (total row_i * total column_j) / total cases.

4 The ranges considered are established by means of the method of grouping date from natural ruptures that minimizes the distance between the values and the average of each group, and maximizes, in relation to other groups, obtaining the following hierarchy in: Professionals: 11–20% low, 20–25% medium, over 25% high Super-creative: up to 0,7% low, 0.7–1,2% medium, over 1,2% high Bohemians: up to 0,3% low, 0,3–0,4% medium, over 0,4% high.

5 That is, sorted according to level of total creativity: Specialized T.> Vacational T.> Diversified T.> Non-tourist (med.)> Non-tourist (small).

Additional information

Funding

Research funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities [POLITUR/CSO2017-82156-R], the AEI/FEDER,UE, the Department of Research and Universities of the Catalan Government [GRATET-2017SGR22] and CEDETS RESOL-2018-201-GDEBA-RECUNVPSO.