Analysis of economic efficiency and eco-efficiency of Chinese star hotels based on SBM model

Abstract

Star hotels, as the core sector of China’s tourism development, the improvement of their economic efficiency is an important way for the tourism industry to operate well. On the other hand, improving eco-efficiency can promote star hotels to take more responsibility for the ecological environment and promote the sustainable development of tourism industry. In this paper, the A Slacks-Based Measure model (SBM), as one kind of data envelopment analysis, is used to construct the economic efficiency and eco efficiency input-output system of Chinese star hotels according to the development characteristics of star hotels in China. By collecting the data in 2014 and using the energy balance sheet to calculate the carbon emission, we further calculate the economic efficiency and eco-efficiency level of the star hotels in 30 provinces in China’s main land, and further analysis the input-output spatial pattern and development trend of the eco-economic system in China’s star hotels through the Getis-Ord Gi index and coupling analysis. It is found that the economic efficiency and ecoefficiency of Chinese star hotels are consistent with their spatial distribution, and they have a significant linear positive correlation. The spatial distribution of the economic efficiency and eco-efficiency of Chinese star hotels is extremely uneven, and there is no spatial agglomeration. Moreover, the high efficiency area has no obvious positive impact on the periphery.