Accommodation Supply Research Articles

A novel measure indicating that a management strategy reduces the likelihood of human-made threats to Cultural World Heritage Sites

The aim of this study is to present a novel measure of which pairs of human-made factors are most threatening to a Cultural World Heritage Site when time as well as its characteristics, including location, are controlled for. A system of Probit equations is employed on information from the UNESCO State of Conservation and World Heritage databases on the nine most frequently reported external threats (housing, tourism, transportation, destruction, illegal activities, land conversion, accommodation supply, loss of identity and war and civil unrest). This allows an analysis that covers all sites, with 22,190 observations over a time period of 45 years. Threats from war and civil unrest, destruction of heritage and illegal activities all appear in pairs and are strongly correlated with each other. There are also high positive correlations between threats from housing and land conversion, tourism and housing, accommodation and transportation as well as tourism and accommodation. Until 2009, there is an increase in the probability of threats, after that, stagnation is observed. Cultural World Heritage Sites in Africa and the Arab countries face the highest risk of a reported threat. Based on the novel measure, a second step of the analysis employing fixed-effects Logit estimations reveals that threats from tourism, housing and transportation are more seldom identified if the site in question has a management plan.

The conversion of abandoned Italian holidays colonies into condhotels. A SWOT analysis approach

The purpose of this paper is to use well-established methodology strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis, in order to identify the most important factors which could enter into the potential conversion of former holidays colonies into condhotel, an alternative hospitality concept, proposed by Regione Emilia-Romagna in Italy. Three different SWOT analyses are used in order to investigate the compatibility of this conversion with typological characteristics, tourism demand and current accommodation supply in the Riviera Romagnola. An in-depth understanding of each colony site and its socio-cultural and economic context must be evaluated in order to advance proposals on their conversion, also considering alternative uses.

SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF LISTINGS ON AIRBNB AND BOOKING.COM AS SHARING ECONOMY PLATFORMS IN THE TOURISM DESTINATION OF MARAMURES LAND ROMANIA

The innovations brought by the sharing economy model through digital booking platforms have produced changes in the dynamic of the accommodation supply in many tourism destinations. The fastness with which changes occur has left this market segment either largely unaccounted for statistically, or poorly regulated, and Maramureș Land, a known cultural and rural tourism destination with inherent regional and local particularities, is no exception. The study raises the issue of evidence regarding the level of adoption and the true scale of the accommodation supply in the area by focusing on listings from two of the most popular digital booking platforms – Booking.com and Airbnb, an aspect that can support policy-making adapted to its specific characteristics. These objectives were pursued through an empirical methodological approach to map the spatiotemporal distribution of listings from the area of Maramureș Land between 2010 and 2023. The methodology assumed the creation of an M.Excel database with all listings from the area, the extraction of descriptive variables and coordinates, the conversion of coordinates into vector point data, and the subsequent analysis using vector and attribute data processing instruments in QGIS.

The Consolidation Stage of the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) Model: The Case of Ibiza from 1977 to 2000

Ibiza is an island in the Western Mediterranean internationally known as a sun and beach tourist destination, and it is notable for its nightclubs. This fact is the result of a century of tourist history that began in the first third of the 20th century and reached its maximum data at the end of that century and the beginning of the 21st century. Using the tourism area life cycle (TALC) model as a reference, it is possible to affirm that Ibiza has already gone through most of the stages proposed by the TALC. The objective of this work is to undertake a historical approach to the events and context that this island experienced during the period that could be considered to be a consolidation stage (1977 to 2000), which is still little analyzed. During this period, demand growth continued, although at a slower pace than in the previous stages, and suffered the first major crisis. The regional administration had to face the errors of the previous decades with various legal actions as follows: the limitation of the accommodation supply, which was already oversized by that stage; the environmental protection of spaces that had not yet been affected by urban development; the modernization of the offerings, much of them being obsolete and degraded; and the diversification of the issuing markets, which had until then been focused on Germany and the United Kingdom. The economic crisis of the early 1990s was a turning point for the tourism sector, both in terms of administrations and companies, and quantitative growth was replaced by qualitative growth in the following years. Starting in 2000, tourism in Ibiza entered a new phase characterized by the modernization of the offerings and the stagnation of data.

Substitution between sharing accommodation and hotels: A behavioral economic demand curve analysis

Researchers have confirmed the substitution of sharing accommodation for hotels. The existing assessments of the substitution have primarily focused on the inverse relationship between sharing accommodation supply and hotel performance, with a lack of examination based on demand curve analysis. This study utilizes behavioral economic demand models to construct alone-price/own-price demand curves for hotels and cross-price demand curves for sharing accommodation to quantify the substitutive relationship between sharing accommodation and different hotel types. Furthermore, we explore the variations in this substitutive relationship by travel companion and customer group. The analysis is dual-directional, including both the substitutability of sharing accommodation for hotels and the reverse relationship. The findings inform market competition strategies for hotels and sharing accommodation.

The spatial patterns of Airbnb offers, hotels and attractions: are professional hosts taking over cities?

ABSTRACT Airbnb has created a significant incentive to invest in real-estate with the purpose of short-term accommodation provision in touristic cities. The robust growth of Airbnb supply has been accompanied with an increasing professionalization of the platform, contributing to such challenges as overtourism and gentrification. The main aim of this analysis is to examine the spatial characteristics of Airbnb supply in Barcelona, Berlin and London, focussing on the differences between offers that belong to non-professional and professional hosts. Based on Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis techniques the study demonstrates that listings that belong to professional hosts are more concentrated in city centres, and are more influenced by the location of tourist attractions and hotels than non-professional offers. On the other hand, non-professional listings facilitate a spatially more diverse accommodation supply. The results suggest that professional offers may contribute more to the negative effects of Airbnb on local residents.

Spatial Distribution of Accommodation Supply in Osaka City - A Policy Perspective

Spatial Distribution of Accommodation Supply in Osaka City - A Policy Perspective

Vacation rental market regulation and accommodation supply growth

Short-term residential vacation rentals (RVRs) have increased their popularity in recent years. Local governments have introduced different regulatory changes to control their supply growth. This paper evaluates a policy intervention in a Northern Spanish destination that has reduced the bureaucratic procedures to officially open a RVR since 2016. We compare the evolution of accommodation growth of RVRs with that of tourist apartments exploiting a panel data set of 78 municipalities between 2013 and 2019. Using difference-in-differences, we provide evidence that the easing of the administrative procedures increased the number of establishments and bed places in RVRs by 5 and 26 units, on average, per municipality.

Can gentrification theory learn from Airbnb? Airbnbfication and the asset economy in Reykjavík

Urban studies have predominantly analysed the impact of short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb on cities through the lens of gentrification. However, the concept of gentrification has been applied to this platform-based urban change without considering how platform economy might alter the way scholars think about gentrification. First, this paper shows that short-term rental platforms build on the increasing use of housing by ordinary people to generate income. Second, it explores what this entails for gentrification studies. Contrary to the classical pattern of gentrification, suppliers of short-term rental platforms are not necessarily external investors but may be local homeowners in an area that is appealing to tourists. This puts local homeowners in an ambiguous position regarding gentrification patterns. On the one hand, as stakeholders providing the accommodation supply, they can theoretically benefit from short-term rental platforms by generating income from their housing. On the other hand, as long-term inhabitants, their housing trajectory can also be disrupted by the consequences of Airbnb-driven gentrification that they enable. This paper aims to disentangle the role of local homeowners in Airbnb-driven gentrification by answering the three following questions. (1) Who are the Airbnb hosts? Are they external newcomers or local homeowners? (2) Which host strategies lead to the displacement of long-term inhabitants? (3) What lines of inquiry does the ambiguous position of local hosts (as both driver and victim of Airbnbfication) open for gentrification studies?

A method of power-electronized supply accommodation capacity analysis for receiving-end grid based on multi-objective optimization

Abstract With the development of renewable energy and high voltage direct current (HVDC) system, the proportion of power-electronized supply in power system is increasing. It creates challenges to the safe and stable operation of the receiving power grid. Reasonable evaluation of the scale of power-electronized supply that can be carried by the receiving-end grid is of great significance to guide power grid construction and maintain its operational safety. Firstly, this paper explains the theory that the unified effective short circuit ratio (UESCR) can reflect the static voltage stability of buses. Then, a multi-objective optimization model, which considers the external dc feed-in, local renewable energy, unit output, and operation constraints, is established to obtain the power-electronized supply accommodation capacity. And it is solved repeatedly by means of cyclic increasing dc feed-in scale and renewable energy penetration. Finally, the effectiveness and practicability of the proposed method are verified in a modified IEEE 39 bus system.

FROM INDUSTRY TO TOURISM: THE CASE OF LX FACTORY IN THE ALCÂNTARA DISTRICT (LISBON)

In the past few years Lisbon has been through many changes, most of them related to the tourism growth. Alcântara is one of the neighbourhoods that became popular, once an industrial area that is presently experiencing a process of urban regeneration. Alcântara is probably the best district of Lisbon to recall the industrial era. At the same time, it has all the services that it needs to welcome visitors: diversity of tourist supplies; a vibrant image, trendy, but also authentic; a barycentric position between two well-known quarters (Baixa and Belém); a good accessibility, still being strengthened; a fast growth in accommodation supply. Arguably, an important role in the tourist development of Alcântara is played by the LX Factory, a former industrial area of around 23.000 m2, where important companies were located. LX Factory is considered a successful experiment of reconversion of an industrial space into a multifunctional complex, which still preserves the former factory atmosphere, although according to a contemporary formula. The LX Factory was inaugurated in 2008. It hosts design offices, art ateliers, start-ups, shops, restaurants, cafés, night clubs, co-working spaces, and even a hostel. It also hosts cultural activities, concerts, workshops, and a Sunday market of vintage and biological products. A previous research (Zarrilli et al., 2019) showed that LX Factory is by far the main tourist attractor of Alcântara. In this contribution, we will try to deeper investigate what we may call the LX Factory phenomenon, in terms of tourist image, flows, motivations and assessments. At this aim, a questionnaire was administered to a sample of shop owners located in its facilities. Conclusions allow us to understand LX Factory main issues from the shop owners’ perspective, regarding the commercial activity, the current image, the people who visit it, and their opinion about the neighbourhood.

Applying Smarta to the analysis of tourist networks

The framework of the present study was the destination life cycle model, a classical model that describes the development of tourist destinations. We examined mass tourism in Benidorm based on tourist accommodation supply and demand statistics over the January 2016 to October 2018 period, provided by Spain's National Institute for Statistics. The objective was to analyze the life cycle and competitiveness of Benidorm's tourism system and interpret whether the tourism product was sustainable and at what stage in the cycle Benidorm is currently in. To do this, we used Smarta software, which, based on network analysis, enables to interpret the system's virtuous cycles and analyze causality by observing relationship patterns in the system's attractors, thus complementing typical processing based on causal maps and the study of social networks. The results obtained by this application (which has been developed by our research team) show six sets of attractors that mark the trends of the tourist system. Finally, the analysis of the significant variables of these attractors has helped us to justify that the tourist system of Benidorm is in the rejuvenation phase.

How the peer-to-peer market for tourist accommodation has responded to COVID-19

PurposeThis study aims to analyze the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the peer-to-peer (p2p) market for tourist accommodation.Design/methodology/approachUsing monthly panel data from Airbnb listings in 22 cities worldwide, the authors run a differences-in-differences analysis comparing the period of February–October 2020 to the previous year.FindingsBesides a decline in accommodation supply, the pandemic made prices and demand fall in all cities significantly, after controlling for room characteristics, host traits, booking policies and individual fixed effects. There is also evidence of an alteration of the influence on prices of certain variables such as superhost and instant booking.Research limitations/implicationsThe main limitations are related to the reference spatial and temporal environment. Besides, the samples are limited to listings that stayed before and after the pandemic; therefore, it is possible that the real effect on review growth and/or prices is actually more negative.Practical implicationsThe analysis performed shows a scenario that represents an opportunity for public managers to test more imaginative regulations that overcome the limitations of those implemented so far. Likewise, hosts who aspire to make their accommodations profitable must adapt to the conditions imposed by the economic environment of the cities in which they operate.Originality/valueThis is the first study to econometrically estimate the impact of COVID-19 on prices in the p2p market for tourist accommodation in a set of cities worldwide.

How excessive endogenous money supply can contribute to global financial crises

Financial crises have become a challenge for sustainable growth, given the frequency and intensity of crisis shocks and their destructive consequences in recent decades. The paper aims to study how the endogenously generated excess money supply can contribute to global financial crises. The creation of money supply is examined from the perspective of the Quantity Theory of Money (QTM) and endogenous money, namely Horizontalism, Structuralism, and Modern Money Theory. Given that prices are not flexible in the short term, increased volatility in the money market prevents a short-term ready balance between money supply and output. The overall result of money supply accommodation can be unpredictable if monetary authorities and commercial banks do not pool their interests, and the money demand volatility becomes extremely high. The study of the correlation between money supply and output allowed distinguishing between neutral countries in the creation of extra liquid assets and countries that can be a potential trigger for excessive money supply volatility. Monitoring the dynamics of M3 and GDP showed that before the significant crisis periods of 1997–1998, 2007–2008, and 2019–2020, the growth of money supply was more than 8%. The established critical level confirms the potential contribution of endogenously created excess money supply to global financial crises.

Content of care of student youth and children in activity of Ukrainian communities at Bukovina (end of XIX – 1914)

The article elucidates the activity of Ukrainian communities at Bukovina of the second half of XIX to the end of the Austrian-Hungarian period (“Rusin Talk”, “Rusin Rada”, “Folk house”, “Rusin school”, “Sych”, “Myronosistsy”, “Women association” and others) in the sphere of social care over children and youth. The special attention is paid to one of great and long-term project – opening and keeping of bursas (dormitories for poor students and natives of rural territories). Causes of the necessity of such institutions are elucidated, the contingent of students, lived in bursas, financing sources, forms of costs involvement for provision and keeping of the institutions, content, forms and directions of learning-upbringing work, realized in bursas, also content of work and a circle of duties of workers of such institutions are described. The article substantiates the importance of bursas functioning for forming national consciousness by involving students in different types of educative work. Form and types of social support and help, such as: cloth and accommodation supply for poor students, opening and keeping of bursas (dormitories); textbook and school accessories supply; monetary “address” payments for poor students, organization of free food for them; help for sick persons; orphan house support are concretized.The activity of communities and separate famous persons in Bukovina in organization of the system of payments for charity projects and creation of special funds is noted. Based on studying archive documents, materials of periodicals, special literature, the review of concrete cases of the charity direction, realized by Ukrainian communities at Bukovina in the studied period, is presented

External Environmental Analysis in Tourist Destinations in Terms of Accommodation Supply Structure: The Case of Ayvalık

Bu araştırmanın amacı, bölgede faaliyet gösteren konaklama işletmeleri açısından Ayvalık destinasyonunun dış çevre analizinin yapılmasıdır. Ayvalık turizm sektörü verilerinin incelenmesiyle birlikte turizm pazarının yapısı, sınırları ve pazarın gelişme hızı belirlenmiştir. Buna ek olarak rekabet analizi ile rakip analizleri yapılmıştır. Araştırmada, ikincil veri kaynaklarından yararlanılmıştır. Ayvalık, Türkiye’nin en büyük Doğa ve Tabiat Parkına sahip olmasının yanı sıra zeytin ve zeytinyağıyla Türkiye’de ve Dünya’da tanınmış markalardan biridir. Ayvalık’ta turizm işletme ve belediye belgeli toplam 291 adet konaklama tesisi bulunmaktadır. Ancak bu tesislerin sadece 22’si turizm işletme belgelidir. Bu noktada bölgede turizm işletme belgeli tesis sayısı oldukça azdır. Bu verilere göre Ayvalık’ın bugüne kadar turizm potansiyelini hedeflediği düzeyde değerlendirememesi, turizm işletme belgeli tesis yatırımı ihtiyacına işaret etmektedir. Gerçekleştirilen bu araştırma sonucunda bölgedeki turizm faaliyetinin artış eğilimi gösterdiği; bölgeyi ziyaret edenlerin % 20’sini yabancı turistler oluşturduğundan pazarın iç turizm ile sınırlandırılmış olduğu; bölgedeki arsa sıkıntısı ile kalifiye personel bulmanın zor olması, pazara girişteki başlıca engellerin olduğu; çok sayıda konaklama tesisi arasında tam rekabet piyasa koşullarının hakim olduğu; az sayıdaki tedarikçi arasında yeterince rekabet oluşmadığından tedarikçilerin gücünün yüksek ve çok sayıda konaklama tesisini seçebilme şansı olduğundan müşteri gücünün yüksek olduğu bulunmuştur.

Tourism competitiveness and the well-being of residents: a debate on registered and non-registered accommodation establishments

The literature on the competitiveness of tourist destinations establishes as its ultimate objective the well-being of the resident population. In Spain, the principal tourism product (sun and beach) has given rise to two basic types of destinations - those where there is a clear predominance of registered accommodation (mainly hotels) and those that are characterised by a supply largely made up of rental apartments and housing (non-registered, or sometimes known as the residential or second home model). The debate on the issue has been focusing on the different economic, social, cultural or environmental impacts that the two tourism models have on the territory. This article explores the economic aspect of the debate, comparing the differences existing in terms of income and employment in a pool of coastal destinations in the Region of Valencia, one of the leading tourism regions of the sun and beach tourism product in Spain and Europe. This comparison is done by way of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing and regression analysis. The results obtained indicate the neutrality of the composition of the accommodation supply on income and employment of destinations.

Local tourist accommodation and institutional strengthening in the interior of the Algarve, Portugal

PurposeThis study aims to understand how legislation and technology can enhance socio-economic development in low-density population territories, focusing specifically on the dynamics of local tourist accommodation over the past decade.Design/methodology/approachA case study was conducted for five municipalities in one of the most significant tourism regions of Portugal – the Algarve – based on a systematic investigation of relevant laws, regulations and electronic platforms. Official statistics were compiled and analyzed for the five territories’ registered local accommodation services, population, overnight stays and additional local services.FindingsThe results reveal that public entities’ regulations favor micro-entrepreneurship initiatives in local accommodation and that digital tools supported by online platforms have quite visible effects on low-density territories. The findings also reveal that the local tourist accommodation supply has experienced an especially dynamic, sustained growth over the past decade. This expansion has been accompanied by an increased supply of other services, suggesting that accommodation can positively influence the existing and/or future socio-economic development of low-density territories.Research limitations/implicationsFurther studies focusing on other areas with low-density populations are needed to determine more clearly how local accommodation influences socio-economic development.Practical implicationsPublic regulations supported by digital platforms that favor micro-entrepreneurship initiatives in local accommodation can strengthen local development.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to analyze how local tourist accommodation can foster socio-economic development in low-density territories.

Potential, Prospect, and Investment Policy of Surabaya City


 
 
 This research aims to find out the types of superior investment potential that are the main attraction and the inhibiting factors and supporting the development of types of business or leading sectors. In this study using a quantitative approach with several stages of Location Quotient analysis tools, Shift Share, and Klassen Typology. The results of this study conclude that the economic structure of the city of Surabaya is dominated by 5 sectors, namely: a) the manufacturing industry sector; b) trade sector; c) the accommodation and food and beverage supply sector; d) information sector, and e) financial services sector. From the results of LQ which are included in the base category in Surabaya, including a) the electricity & gas procurement sector; b) water supply sector; c) the construction sector; d) trade sector; e) transportation sector; f) the accommodation supply sector; g) information; h) financial services sector; i) real estate sector; j) company service sector; k) the health service sector, and l) the health service sector. While the investment potential and opportunities in the city of Surabaya are based on the results of the analysis above then there are in the transportation sector, the accommodation supply sector, and the information sector.
 
 

The economic impact of the tourism moratoria in the Canary Islands 2003–2017

In the early 2000s, the Parliament of the Canary Islands passed a series of tourism moratoria to restrict the growth in tourism supply. Even though the effects of moratoria have been covered in the literature, there is little quantitative evidence about their economic impact on the destinations, particularly in relation to the goal of increasing the quality of the accommodation supply. In order to fill this gap, this paper employs both regression and computable general equilibrium (CGE) methods to estimate the economic impact of the increased 5-star capacity acquired by the Canary Islands during the three moratoria periods between 2003 and 2017. The regression results show that the successive moratoria had a significant impact on the 5-star hotel supply in the Islands, while the CGE model translates the extra capacity into a positive impact on social welfare, with output increases in the sectors that complement tourism activity.