Perceived spatial agglomeration effects and hotel location choice

Adam, Issahaku; Mensah, Emmanuel Abeashi

doi:10.1080/13032917.2013.822818

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“…This divergence of results increases when considering the potential existence of negative externalities, which could justify the existence of an inverted-U relationship (Canina et al, 2005;Urtasun and Gutiérrez, 2006b). Thus, the absence of conclusive results gives rise to the need to consider jointly the existence of externalities and other characteristics of the location (Adam and Mensah, 2014).…”

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Determinants of TRevPAR: hotel, management and tourist destination

Lado-Sestayo

Búa

González

2017

IJCHM

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Purpose This paper aims to study the determinants of hotel performance, especially the role of location, in the Spanish hotel market. Design/methodology/approach The sample is composed of 1,034 hotels located in 97 tourist destinations in Spain during the period 2005-2011. The estimations were made by generalised least squares using panel data. Findings Overall, the results show that hotel attributes are the main determinant of performance. In particular, there is a minimum efficient scale in the hotel business. Location is the second most important determinant. This paper confirms that geographical location models, agglomeration models and competition models are relevant in the study of the effect of location on hotel performance. Regarding management practices, the performance is positively affected by good asset management. Practical implications Hotel managers can improve the total net revenue per available room by individually making decisions regarding its characteristics and management practices, especially size and asset efficiency. Moreover, they can collaborate with others (managers and policymakers) to manage tourist destination factors, particularly, demand level, accessibility, negative externalities and market concentration. Originality/value This research includes hotel characteristics, management practices and location as determinants of performance, by providing a broader framework of analysis than in previous studies. Regarding location, the empirical analysis considers simultaneously geographical location models, agglomeration models and competition models. The paper studies the Spanish hotel market, which is very important worldwide and which has heterogeneous tourist destinations, thereby making it a good context to analyse the relationship between location and performance.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Determinants of TRevPAR: hotel, management and tourist destination

Lado-Sestayo

Búa

González

2017

IJCHM

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“…Beyond these areas other contexts where the geography of urban accommodation has been scrutinised include Canada (Wall et al, 1985), China (Bégin, 2000;Yang et al 2012), Israel (Arbel & Pizam, 1977;Shoval & Cohen-Hattab, 2001;Shoval, 2006), Malaysia (Oppermann, et al 1996), Turkey (Dökmeci & Balta, 1999), and USA (Baum & Mezias, 1992). In sub-Saharan Africa empirical work now is available for certain cities in both Ghana (Adam, 2012, Adam & Amuquandoh, 2013Adam & Mensah, 2013) and South Africa (Rogerson, 2012b(Rogerson, , 2014b.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Rogerson & Visser, 2007;Rogerson, , 2011aRogerson, , 2011bRogerson & Kotze, 2011;Rogerson & Visser, 2011;Rogerson & Sims, 2012;Rogerson, 2012aRogerson, , 2012bRogerson, , 2013dRogerson, , 2013e, 2014bFerreira & Boshoff, 2014). More broadly, the research seeks to extend the corpus of international scholarship both in the contexts of developed and developing countries which aims to understand and interpret the evolution, changes, and locational logic of urban hotels (see Arbel & Pizam, 1977;Wall et al, 1985;Oppermann et al 1996;Dokmeci & Balta, 1999;Begin, 2000;Shoval & Cohen-Hattab, 2001;Shoval, 2006;Shoval et al, 2011;Adam, 2012;Adam and Mensah, 2013;Yang et al, 2014).…”

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Changing hotel location patterns in Ekurhuleni, South Africa’s industrial workshop

Rogerson¹

2014

Urbani izziv

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The accommodation sector is of central importance to research on urban tourism. A number of studies seek to understand the location of hotels in urban areas. This article contributes to the limited scholarship on hotel location in African cities. Under investigation is hotel development in Ekurhuleni, one of South Africa's newest metropolitan areas with a strong tradition of mining and industrial activities. This is a non-traditional tourism destination where until recently leisure tourism was not a component of the local economy. In terms of tourism development Ekurhuleni has expanded its share of business tourism as a result of its geographical location in South Africa's economic heartland. Importantly, business tourism has been driven by the location in Ekurhuleni of OR Tambo Airport, South Africa's major international gateway airport. Between 1990 and 2010 this investigation shows that the local hotel economy of Ekurhuleni has been transformed. One aspect of restructuring has been the collapse of the low quality liquor dominated hotel which was numerically the major accommodation type of the pre-1990 period. The booming business tourism economy caused new investments and hotel property developments in medium-size and high quality four and five star hotel establishments. Growth has clustered geographically in and around the international airport which is the key contemporary locational influence for hotel location in this investigation.

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“…In Tanzania the geographical distribution of small hotels in the country has been scrutinised by Sharma, Sneed and Ravichandran (2007) and for South Africa the relative demise of the country's former liquor-dominated small hotels has received attention by Rogerson (2011). In Ghana the characteristics, intra-urban location distribution of hotels and factors influencing hotel decision-making at the micro-scale in the city of Kumasi have been profiled in a rich seam of investigatory works (Adam, 2012(Adam, , 2013Adam & Amuquandoh, 2013;Adam & Mensah, 2014). South Africa's hotel industry is the largest and most mature in Africa and therefore it is not surprising that most research work on the hotel industry in Africa has centred upon the country's hotel economy.…”

Section: Literature Review -Hotel Research In Africamentioning

confidence: 99%