Some reflections on measures of competitiveness for wintersport resorts in overseas markets

First concerns over the competitiveness of major economic sectors or whole nations date back to the early eighties. To recall this was the period in which the combined effects of rapid technological changes (through the advance of micro processors) massive trade liberalization through GATT and the formation of new free trading zones and deregulation rapidly altered the terms of trade and revealed new comparative advantages, industrial production and distribution.