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Higher tourism specialization, better hotel industry efficiency?
Dapeng Zhang1, Jinghua Tu1, Lingxu Zhou1
1School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, 182# Nanhu Avenue, Wuhan 430073, PR China.
Abstract:
This study examines the effects of both specialization in tourism and market competition on the efficiency of the hotel industry. For this purpose, stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) was employed to evaluate the efficiency of the hotel industry on a provincial level in China and to analyze how it is impacted by specialization in tourism and market competition. The results confirm that tourism specialization and market competition exert a synergistic effect on hotel industry efficiency in China. This study finds that tourism development as represented by a high level of tourism specialization by a destination does not guarantee high efficiency in hotels but does enhance the negative effect of market competition on hotel industry efficiency. Significant policy and managerial implications stem from these findings.
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