In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

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 …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to inspect factors influencing profitability in the Italian
hospitality industry during the period 2008-2016. Design/methodology/approach This paper …

Tourism is one of the emissions sources of CO 2 and tourism activities can impose pressure
on the ecological environment. The study constructed an evaluation framework of the direct …

With the development of the tourism industry over the last three decades, there has been
growing interest in evaluating the efficiency of the hotel industry from a regional perspective …

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 …

The COVID-19 health crisis has wreaked devastation on the world economy, especially on
the tourism sector. The camping sector has been little studied despite its high economic …

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between gender and profitability in
the Italian hospitality industry during the period 2008–2017. The study examines whether …

Purpose This paper aims to understand the most efficient hotel system and why efficiency
varies across years and between the two differing types of hotel businesses in Turkey …

Efficiency is an important indicator of an industry's development. To explore the temporal
dynamics of tourism efficiency, this paper attempts to discuss its evolutional models, based …