Is hotel efficiency necessary for tourism destination competitiveness? An integrated approach

Mendieta-Peñalver, Luis Felipe; Perles‐Ribes, José Francisco; Rodríguez, Ana Belén Ramón; Devesa, María Jesús Such

doi:10.5367/te.2016.0555

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“…However, studies exploring non‐European contexts are becoming increasingly common, reflecting the diversification of tourist demand. Examples include Untong, Kaosa‐Ard, Ramos, and Rey‐Maquieira () analysing hotel efficiency in Thailand; Assaf and Agbola () who examine the hotel sector in Australia; Honma and Hu () in Japan; the study by Oukil et al () for the case of Oman in the near east; or finally the study by Mendieta‐Peñalver, Perles‐Ribes, Ramón‐Rodríguez, and Such‐Devesa () dealing with a chain of hotels that operates at an international level.…”

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Achieving tourist destination competitiveness: Evidence from Latin‐American and Caribbean countries

Gómez‐Vega

Prieto

2018

Journal of Tourism Research

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We evaluate tourist efficiency in Latin‐America and the Caribbean, an area of growing interest in international tourism. We take 17 countries with homogeneous information for 2011–2015 and apply a two‐stage conditioned evaluation. We gauge efficiency using data envelopment analysis of a production function to maximize overnight stays given tourist resources and estimate the impact of external factors for infrastructures, cultural and natural resources, level of development, and so forth. We use a double bootstrap procedure to correct bias in efficiency ratios and serial correlation with second stage variables. We find that countries operate below their possibilities when attracting international tourism. The most efficient are in the Caribbean and Mexico, who specialize in sun and sand tourism. There is evidence that cultural resources and transport infrastructure improve performance. We find the opposite for natural resources and other infrastructures. This research furthers our knowledge of tourist efficiency analysis in an area where such studies remain scarce.

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Achieving tourist destination competitiveness: Evidence from Latin‐American and Caribbean countries

Gómez‐Vega

Prieto

2018

Journal of Tourism Research

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“…Gómez‐Vega and Picazo‐Tadeo (2019) suggest using a weighted composite indicator of competitiveness to rank world tourist destinations. Other researchers propose certain elements, such as hotel efficiency (Mendieta‐Peñalver, Perles‐Ribes, Ramón‐Rodríguez, & Such‐Devesa, 2018) and destination accessibility (Clara, Simon, Noelia, & Barbara, 2019), to measure destination competitiveness.…”

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Is sustainable development reasonable for tourism destinations? An empirical study of the relationship between environmental competitiveness and tourism growth

Zhan

2020

Sustainable Development

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Sustainable development is an important strategy promoted by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and governments of many destinations. However, the seeming contradiction about the environment vis‐à‐vis business interests may result in noncompliant responses to the environmental policies and regulations and hinder implementation of strategies for improved sustainability. Using resource‐based theory, we empirically test the influence of environmental competitiveness on tourism growth. Using a biennial dataset from 130 destinations between 2009 and 2017, the current work applies the fixed effect (FE) and threshold models to identify a strong link for developed destinations but a weak link for less developed regions. Several indicators of environmental competitiveness significantly affect tourism demand for destinations with high GDP per capita; the effects are not significant, however, for low GDP per capita destinations. These findings demonstrate that environmental factors are important influencers of destination competitiveness and are positively linked to economic performance of developed destinations. The connection between environmental competitiveness and tourism growth in less developed destinations seems weak and insignificant. A possible reason could be that such destinations lack the capital guarantee to translate environmental competitiveness into tourism demand. This article extends the resource‐based theory from the corporate level into the destination level and theoretically contributes to the sustainable tourism literature. Our findings provide the UNWTO and destination governments with empirical evidence to support their sustainable strategies and with suggestions concerning how to strengthen the environment‐performance link for less developed destinations.

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“…Another important study is that of Mendieta-Peñalver et al [20] who assessed the relationship between the competitiveness of the tourist destination and the competitiveness of international hotel companies, with a comprehensive approach based on Porter, was a mediation model to link the competitiveness of the destination, efficiency, and competitiveness of the company. For global technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency were estimated using data wrap analysis techniques.…”

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Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for Measuring the Efficiency of the Hotel Industry in Ecuador

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The level of contribution of the hotel industry depends on different factors of production that they use in the provision of their services The way they use these factors of production will allow them to act efficiently, in order to improve profitability and market position. Ecuador, in recent years, has directed public policies betting on the development of this industry. In this sense, this research seeks to measure the efficiency and productivity of the Ecuadorian hotel industry. For this purpose, a significant sample has been selected; it consists of 147 businesses that provided hotel services during the period 2013-2017. These businesses are classified according to their quality and geographic location. This information has been useful to make a balanced panel data with one output (Revenue) and three inputs (Total_personnel, the non-current assets, and Consumption) by using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The results, which proved to be solid and accurate, indicate that the most efficient businesses are the ones in the third class, whereas those hotels located in zones with tourist attractions and activities have a better optimization of those resources. This situation has an effect on the significant improvement of their productivity.

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Is hotel efficiency necessary for tourism destination competitiveness? An integrated approach

Cited by 34 publications

References 62 publications

Achieving tourist destination competitiveness: Evidence from Latin‐American and Caribbean countries

Achieving tourist destination competitiveness: Evidence from Latin‐American and Caribbean countries

Is sustainable development reasonable for tourism destinations? An empirical study of the relationship between environmental competitiveness and tourism growth

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for Measuring the Efficiency of the Hotel Industry in Ecuador

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