Seasonality and regional productivity in the Spanish accommodation sector

Saito, Hisamitsu; Romão, João

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2018.06.005

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“…As to the former, several authors have found that hotels insufficiently adapt labor utilization to seasonal changes in demand (Alemayehu and Tveteraas 2020;Krakover 2000). As a result, Figure 3C shows that labor productivity has a procyclical (at the seasonal frequencies) behavior (Park et al 2016;Saito and Romão 2018). Possible reasons for this behavior are the fact that hotels' labor must be considered as a partially fixed factor insofar as a minimal staff is needed to run a hotel, and hotel managers may be willing to retain workers to reduce job turnover.…”

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An Integrated Analysis of Tourism Seasonality in Prices and Quantities, with an Application to the Spanish Hotel Industry

Lozano

Rey‐Maquieira

Sastre

2020

Journal of Travel Research

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Most research on tourism seasonality has focused on tourism flows and, to a much lesser extent, on tourism prices. However, up to now no research has been devoted to understanding the relationship between tourism seasonality in quantities and prices. We try to fill this gap with an application to the Spanish hotels during 2008–2017. Provincial data on the seasonality of night stays and prices of Spanish hotels is presented, compared, and correlated. This data analysis inspires a supply-demand framework to jointly explain both kinds of seasonality. We show the usefulness of this framework to first explain the role of hotels’ cost and price flexibility in determining the seasonality of night stays and second to encompass in a single framework most of the determinants of the changes of tourism seasonality in quantities and prices, including some determinants seldom considered in the literature.

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An Integrated Analysis of Tourism Seasonality in Prices and Quantities, with an Application to the Spanish Hotel Industry

Lozano

Rey‐Maquieira

Sastre

2020

Journal of Travel Research

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“…International business travel is frequent in these cities because weather conditions do not limit business travel. Destinations solve the problem of off-season tourism demand by holding business and tourism activities (i.e., international conferences, international exhibitions, and international events) [31]. In addition, these regions developed tourism early and have strong accessibility (i.e., language and culture, transportation, visa system, and friendliness), and then further improve the strength and popularity through the cumulative effect of tourism.…”

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“…They also found that cultural tourism destinations could weaken seasonality. However, based on the empirical research of Spain, Saito believed that the number of museums and natural factors contribute similarly to regional seasonality [31].…”

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Cultural Tourism Weakens Seasonality: Empirical Analysis of Chinese Tourism Cities

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Yu²,

Chen³

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Cultural tourism is less seasonal than nature tourism. However, previous studies have mainly compared the tourist flow of scenic spots, and it is still unclear how cultural tourism affects regional tourism seasonality. This study investigated the seasonal patterns by analyzing the monthly inbound tourist flow of the 28 typical Chinese tourist cities from 2001 to 2012, and examined the effect of cultural tourism on weakening seasonality by using the random-response panel Tobit model. It was found that the seasonal patterns of inbound tourists present non-peak, one-peak, two-double, and three-peak regular fluctuations, and also have irregular fluctuations affected by emergencies and festivals. Cultural tourism can weaken the seasonality of regional tourism, while nature tourism products enhance tourism seasonality. Suitable travel times throughout the year and destination reception industry levels, locations, and external connections have a significant impact on the regional tourism seasonality, but climate comfort, foreign direct investment, and simply the number of hotels and international travel agencies are not significant for tourism seasonality.

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“…Such and Zamora [63] point out the appropriateness of the Balearic Islands as an area of analysis for studies focused on tourism, seasonality, and sustainability. This destination enjoys a Mediterranean climate, although the bulk of the tourist inflows are concentrated in summer [64]. Environmentally sensitive areas such as the Balearic Islands face the challenge of managing growing tourist inflows concentrated in a short period of time.…”

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Seasonality and Efficiency of the Hotel Industry in the Balearic Islands: Implications for Economic and Environmental Sustainability

2020

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Tourism seasonality generates negative environmental and economic impacts. This paper analyzes the effects of seasonality on the efficiency of the hotel industry in the Balearic Islands (Spain). To that end, a sample of hotel establishments is divided into two groups (those that close down during the off-season and those that do not). Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is applied to assess the radial efficiency of each of the selected hotels; then, directional distance functions (DDFs) are used to measure the degree of efficiency with which these hotels use each of the inputs that form part of their production process. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that the said technique has been applied to the hospitality industry to examine the effects of seasonality. The results of this study suggest that those establishments that do not close down their operations are markedly more efficient than the ones that do. Moreover, they are more efficient in the use of each input. Therefore, a reduction in the levels of tourism seasonality would improve the economic sustainability of the hotels and reduce the environmental pressure at peak times. Finally, in line with the theoretical hypotheses formulated, the results regarding the specific efficiency levels for each input show that the greater the degree of flexibility with which these inputs are used, the higher the efficiency.

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Seasonality and regional productivity in the Spanish accommodation sector

Cited by 17 publications

References 46 publications

An Integrated Analysis of Tourism Seasonality in Prices and Quantities, with an Application to the Spanish Hotel Industry

An Integrated Analysis of Tourism Seasonality in Prices and Quantities, with an Application to the Spanish Hotel Industry

Cultural Tourism Weakens Seasonality: Empirical Analysis of Chinese Tourism Cities

Seasonality and Efficiency of the Hotel Industry in the Balearic Islands: Implications for Economic and Environmental Sustainability

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