Abstract
In 2020 a new pandemic, named COVID-19 has been spreading all over the world, causing a reduction of activities, including in the tourism sector. This paper tries to quantify the effects of COVID-19 on accommodations, with a particular focus on prices trend and accommodations availability. Experiments simulated more than 400 accommodation bookings over the period of time before, during and after the wave of the pandemic caused by COVID-19. The analysis is done for the city of Pisa, but it could be generalized to all the other cities, provided that there is an availability of data. The typology with the highest drop in availability was that of 2-star hotels with a maximum decrease of 66%. Even the 4 and 3-star hotels were clearly affected by the pandemic, recording maximum drops of 36% for 4-star hotels and 25% for 3-star hotels. Regarding the analysis of prices trend, the categories most affected by the pandemic were hotels, hostels and tourist villages, which recorded significant price increases. The major novelty of this paper involves the definition of a strategy which can be used to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on accommodations, as well as the release of the DOTApy software for the extraction of data. Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2021-02-03-07 Full Text: PDF
Highlights
At the end of 2019, a critical situation has occurred, determined by the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic [1], which is still ongoing at the time of writing
This paper focused on the analysis of trends of prices and accommodations availability related to accommodations located in Pisa before, during and after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
The analysis demonstrated that the typology of hotels which suffered the effects of COVID-19 in terms of availability was 2-star hotels, followed by the 4 and 3-star hotels
Summary
At the end of 2019, a critical situation has occurred, determined by the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic [1], which is still ongoing at the time of writing. The COVID-19 outbreak, as it is called this pandemic, was identified for the first time in China in 2019, 31st December, and, spread all over the world, reaching more than 100 million cases [2]. This research offers an overview of the tourism situation of the city of Pisa, before and during the first wave of COVID-19, taking into consideration the accommodation facilities and their categories. Two metrics are calculated and analyzed: the Accommodation Availability Index and the Average Price. Through the analysis of these two metrics, it is, possible to highlight the trends in the periods of interest of the research for different types of hotel structures such as hotels, Rent-room, apartments, B&B, etc
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