@inbook{4223d8f0fc724d91a428ac7facffd077,
title = "Hotel chain performance: a gravity-DEA approach",
abstract = "This paper explores the evolution of the efficiency of a hotel chain and its implications in terms of competitiveness. A gravity model and a data envelopment analysis(DEA) are implemented in a dynamic framework. The former generates the tourism demand towards each hotel of the chain whereas DEA Window analysis isrun to capture efficiency changes over time. A DEA based Malmquist productivityindex is used to measure the productivity change and to decompose any changeinto the catching-up and the frontier-shift effect. We find that policies implementedaccording to DEA Window analysis increase the efficiency scores for the hotel chain and its competitiveness.",
keywords = "DEA Window, Gravity model, Malmquist index, dynamic panel data, hotel chain performance, DEA Window, Gravity model, Malmquist index, dynamic panel data, hotel chain performance",
author = "Valerio Lacagnina and Davide Provenzano",
year = "2011",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-7908-2724-8",
series = "Physica Verlag",
pages = "171--181",
booktitle = "Tourism economics: impact analysis",
}