Do implicit prices for hotels and second homes show differences in tourists’ valuation for public attributes for each type of accommodation facility?

Saló, Albert; Garriga, Anna; Rigall-I-Torrent, Ricard; Vilà, Mar; Fluvià, Modest

doi:10.1016/j.ijhm.2013.08.011

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“…As pointed out by Salo et al (2014) and Seul (2015), accommodation and foodservice companies compete with neighbours of similar quality, rather than with those which are differentiated in terms of quality 1 . In addition, research results also suggest the possibility of cooperation between neighbouring hotels of a similar quality.…”

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A Spatial Analysis of Tourism Infrastructure in Romania: Spotlight on Accommodation and Food Service Companies

Constantin

Reveiu

2018

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Abstract. In recent decades the supply perspective of tourism, focusing on large agglomerations of tourism companies that bring benefits in terms of positive externalities at destination, has been more and more emphasized. It has become a complement of the classical demand-based perspective, which points to the availability of resources (attractions) demanded by tourists as the exclusive explanation for the location decisions of tourist companies. In line with these new orientations, our paper proposes an inquiry into the spatial distribution of accommodation and foodservice companies in Romania, seeking to reveal whether a significant cross-correlation between these two segments of tourism infrastructure occurs and, in case of an affirmative answer, to discuss their significance for tourism development policies. With this aim in view, the investigation methodology utilises a series of analytical tools that combine GIS and spatial agglomeration analysis based techniques, applied to datasets capturing all companies represented in the tourism industry in Romania provided by the National Authority for Tourism, combined with spatial data from the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). The results indicate an uneven territorial distribution of tourism infrastructure compared to the location of tourist attractions, significant differences between the geographical distribution of the accommodation and foodservice companies and suggest differentiated policies for supporting tourism infrastructure, in accordance with the specific needs of the tourist areas.JEL classification: C19, C88, L83, R12

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A Spatial Analysis of Tourism Infrastructure in Romania: Spotlight on Accommodation and Food Service Companies

Constantin

Reveiu

2018

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“…Some studies have investigated with hedonic price methods the relationship with quality in the hospitality industry (Chen & Rothschild, 2010;Hamilton, 2007;Masiero, Nicolau, & Law, 2015;Monty & Skidmore, 2003). Some results show that the most relevant characteristics are cleanliness, location and facilities in the 8,000 hostels analysed worldwide (de Oliveira Santos, 2016) or revealing price differences between hotels depending on the category (Saló, Garriga, Rigall-i-Torrent, Vila, & Fluvià, 2014).…”

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Are guests of the same opinion as the hotel star-rate classification system?

Martín-Fuentes

2016

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management

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Hotel classification systems have been questioned on some occasions due to the loss of credibility of stars as a quality standard and because they are sometimes subject to outdated criteria. In any case, this system allows reducing the adverse effects of asymmetric information, characterized in a market such as the hospitality industry.With a sample of more than 14,000 hotels in 100 cities around the world taken from two of the most important tourism websites as are Booking and TripAdvisor, we ascertained whether the star-rating classification system of hotels, room price, or even hotel size, match user satisfaction measured from the point of view the scores awarded by past users.The results confirm that despite the differences in criteria in implementing the hotel star-rate classification system throughout the world, a relationship does exist with user satisfaction, based on the scores awarded by former customers both on TripAdvisor and on Booking. In turn, price is related to hotel category and with satisfaction. However, the number of rooms does not influence the score awarded, although depending on the region, there is a relationship between hotel size and category.We conclude that the hotel classification system adequately fulfils its function as customer ratings increase with each additional star, just as price is also related with both aspects.The main contribution of this study is that the results concern hotels from around the world comparing them with the views of customers expressed on TripAdvisor and Booking.

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“…Tourism is the main socio-economic activity in the region and more than 65% of beds correspond to hotels and second homes. This is a pattern that can be found in other Spanish and European tourist areas (Salo, Garriga, Rigall-I-Torrent, Vila & Fluvia, 2014). The Costa Brava has limited water resources and so management is a major challenge for the government and water companies, especially during the hot dry summer months when tourists arrive.…”

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Influential factors in water planning for sustainable tourism destinations

Vilà

Afsordegan

Agell

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Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Many destinations are implementing various water management alternatives to diminish the environmental impacts of tourism and increase sustainability. These efforts toward sustainability can be understood as part of corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies implemented by tourism destinations. This paper is focused on the tourism destination of the Costa Brava (Catalonia, Spain) and describes a method for selecting a list of influential factors in water management for sustainable tourism destinations by considering stakeholder preferences for technical, economic, social, political, and environmental factors. A new qualitative Delphi technique is used to identify a set of qualitative and quantitative factors by surveying eight stakeholders (six water management experts and two hotel managers). In addition, the study presents the weight for each of the influential factors that decision makers-water planners, policy makers, tourism destination managers and hotel managers-can use in assessing water management alternatives. Although research to date has addressed many aspects of responsible tourism, there is little literature on the importance of water management in responsible strategies for tourism destinations. This paper contributes to a more efficient implementation of CSR strategies in tourism destinations by proposing a new methodology for identifying key factors for assessing sustainable solutions for water problems.

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Do implicit prices for hotels and second homes show differences in tourists’ valuation for public attributes for each type of accommodation facility?

Cited by 46 publications

References 40 publications

A Spatial Analysis of Tourism Infrastructure in Romania: Spotlight on Accommodation and Food Service Companies

A Spatial Analysis of Tourism Infrastructure in Romania: Spotlight on Accommodation and Food Service Companies

Are guests of the same opinion as the hotel star-rate classification system?

Influential factors in water planning for sustainable tourism destinations

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