Summary: | The main goal of this research focuses on studying the performance and competitiveness of tourism destinations of the Cape Verde islands by main outbond markets. It was used the data of monthly overnight stays in hotels for the period 2005 to 2011. For that it was used the instrument Analysis of Market Share proposed by Faulkner (1997), as well as the Gini Index and the Dissimilarity among tourist destinations in major outbound markets, to better complement the study analysis. The results showed that the islands have changed in the tourism competitiveness, presented levels of tourism competitiveness different for the various origins. Concerning the Gini Index, nationally there was a decrease in concentration of overnights. As the dissimilarity, the island of Boavista was the most singular region and São Nicolau and Brava were the most similar.
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