Competitive intelligence (CI) is a business tool within strategic management, and it is gaining significance as a process that enables companies to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. This study explores the current state of CI in the Spanish hotel industry. For this purpose, a path model has been developed which empirically investigates the relationship between CI use and its backgrounds. The results obtained suggest that environmental and organizational characteristics affect CI effort, and in turn, CI effort affects CI use. This study provides theoretical and practical implications to help managers develop sustainable competitive advantages through the potential that CI offers within the hotel industry.

Using a probabilistic neural network and a set of financial and nonfinancial variables, this study seeks to improve the ability of the existing bankruptcy prediction models in the hotel industry. Our aim is to construct a hotel bankruptcy prediction model that provides high accuracy, using information sufficiently distant from the bankruptcy situation, and which is able to determine the sensitivity of the explanatory variables. Based on a sample of Spanish hotels that went bankrupt between 2005 and 2012, empirical results indicate that using information nearer to bankruptcy (one and two years prior), the most relevant variable is EBITDA to current liabilities, but using information further from bankruptcy (three years prior), return on assets is the best predictor of bankruptcy.

Recent tourism studies have shown that cruise passengers´ intention can be used as a tool to evaluate the sustainability of port of call destination. However, studies on this topic remain scarce and only offer an initial conceptualization of this issue. Hoping to help fill this void, the present research proposes a robust model for the analysis of the cruise passengers´ intention as assessed by Partial Least Squares. Data was collected in the port of Malaga (Spain), between January and December 2018. The results showed that reputation and familiarity are the best explanatory factors of the cruise passengers´ intention with a port of call destination. Also, cognitive perception and affective evaluation are the antecedents of reputation and familiarity.

El objetivo de este estudio es conocer qué factores exógenos condicionan la eficiencia de los municipios con una marcada orientación turística. Este estudio es una de las pocas publicaciones basadas en la eficiencia de municipios turísticos. A diferencia de la mayoría de las investigaciones que evalúan la eficiencia municipal en general, se cree que este documento contribuye a la literatura relacionada ofreciendo ideas a los municipios turísticos relativamente ineficientes sobre la mejora de la eficiencia. The objective of this study is to know which exogenous factors condition the efficiency of the municipalities with tourist orientation. This study is one of the few publications based on the efficiency of tourism municipalities. Unlike most of the research that assesses municipal efficiency in general, it is believed that this document contributes to related literature by offering ideas to relatively inefficient tourism municipalities about improving efficiency.

Among the most recognized management training methodologies is experiential learning which helps managers to develop self-confidence and better understand organizational problems. Until now, there has not being examined how these procedures affect students of Business Management, with no empirical evidence to substantiate the results in this context. This work contributes to a better understanding of how to develop emotional competencies of Management students, based on a review of the literature on emotional competencies, experiential learning and Outdoor Training. The results of this study were obtained through an experimental design pre-test/post-test/re-test with data from 108 students. It was found that most of those who participated in the program of Outdoor Training significantly improved their emotional competencies, both the personal and the social ones.