1 Introduction
2 Theoretical Background
3 Methodology
4 Results
Theme | No. of Statements | Aggreg. Mean | Aggreg. SD |
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The ETDS will create value for by… | 16 | 4.38 | 0.75 |
Important features of the ETDS should include… | 41 | 4.23 | 0.84 |
The ETDS should motivate participation by… | 15 | 3.97 | 1.03 |
The ETDS should be managed by… | 19 | 3.17 | 1.16 |
The ETDS should ensure data quality by… | 10 | 4.39 | 0.69 |
The ideal ETDS business model should… | 19 | 3.58 | 1.03 |
Strongly disagree | Somewhat disagree | Neither agree nor disagree | Somewhat agree | Strongly agree | |
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The ETDS will create value for tourism stakeholders and the tourism industry at large by… | |||||
fostering collaboration & knowledge sharing among tourism stakeholders | 9.6% | 15.4% | 75.0% | ||
allowing for European-wide benchmarking | 2.0% | 29.4% | 68.6% | ||
improving decision-making and management | 5.8% | 26.9% | 67.3% | ||
fostering standardization of data formats and methodologies | 1.9% | 3.8% | 28.8% | 65.4% | |
Important features of an effective ETDS should include… | |||||
access to up-to-date data | 3.8% | 11.5% | 84.6% | ||
ease-of-use | 23.5% | 76.5% | |||
long-term commitment and support from EU | 3.9% | 21.6% | 74.5% | ||
political neutrality | 11.3% | 18.9% | 69.8% | ||
The ETDS should motivate participation by… | |||||
providing dashboards and data visualizations | 1.9% | 9.4% | 24.5% | 64.2% | |
providing public access to the data space for tourism | 5.8% | 7.7% | 32.7% | 53.8% | |
providing license and policy templates for data sharing | 2.0% | 8.2% | 40.8% | 49.0% | |
providing a market analysis for data | 1.9% | 9.6% | 9.6% | 30.8% | 48.1% |
The ETDS should be managed by… | |||||
the European Union | 2.0% | 8.2% | 16.3% | 38.8% | 34.7% |
the European Travel Commission | 10.4% | 2.1% | 29.2% | 29.2% | 29.2% |
the Data Spaces Support Center | 6.7% | 2.2% | 22.2% | 40.0% | 28.9% |
Eurostat | 6.3% | 6.3% | 25.0% | 35.4% | 27.1% |
The ETDS should ensure data quality and promote interoperability by… | |||||
maintaining transparency | 15.4% | 84.6% | |||
setting data quality standards, methods, and guidelines | 1.9% | 17.0% | 81.1% | ||
publishing metadata | 10.9% | 23.9% | 65.2% | ||
utilizing APIs | 3.9% | 33.3% | 62.7% | ||
The ideal ETDS business model should… | |||||
provide free data access for research and development | 5.7% | 15.1% | 22.6% | 56.6% | |
use a freemium model where some data are free, some paid | 2.0% | 3.9% | 17.6% | 35.3% | 41.2% |
offer cost reductions for organizations that share their data | 2.0% | 13.7% | 43.1% | 41.2% | |
facilitate data sharing based on data exchange/partnership agreements | 6.0% | 10.0% | 48.0% | 36.0% |