Tourist Accommodation Research Articles

Tourist accommodation, consumption and platforms

AbstractThe expansion of mediated accommodation on peer to peer (P2P) platforms, such as Airbnb, has generated extensive economic impact and structural changes in all the destinations involved. This study proposes an innovative analysis which estimates the economic impact associated with the expenditure of tourists staying in traditional hotel establishments in comparison to the impact of those staying in tourist housing mediated through P2P platforms. This research analyses fieldwork based on 1343 surveys carried out in the city of Granada, one of the main tourist destinations in Spain. Through the application of the input–output methodology we found that tourists staying in tourist housing mediated through P2P platforms generate a greater impact as a consequence of longer average stays and more heterogeneously distributed consumption. Their average expenditure is similar to that of tourists in hotels, but the indirect impact generated is greater. Consequently, we can better comprehend the economic impact associated with these platforms and their real effect. Public planners have to consider this information as part of the regulation and restriction of this activity.

Historic Hotel Buildings in Istanbul City

Heritage hotels and such tourist accommodations are considered as important elements of hospitality industry since they create emotional, cultural, and use values. Istanbul houses some of the most exceptional historic buildings some of which are employed as hotels today. Although the city exhibits important examples of heritage lodging, the research on the subject is relatively little. Therefore, this paper provides a literature review on the historical backgrounds of historic hotel buildings located in Istanbul city, such as the Galata Hotel Istanbul-MGallery, Ciragan Palace Kempinski Istanbul, Four Seasons Istanbul at the Bosporus, W Istanbul, 10 Karakoy Istanbul-A Morgans Original, Pera Palace Hotel, Ajia Hotel, Tomtom Suites, Legacy Ottoman Hotel, Crowne Plaza Istanbul Old City, and Four Seasons Hotel Istanbul at Sultanahmet.

Digital Business Models in the Hospitality Sector: Comparing Hotel Bookings with Yacht Charter Bookings

Within the fast paced digital transformation of the tourism and hospitality sector, the modalities of booking a tourist accommodation have been radically transformed by the uptake of digital business models and digital platforms. This study examines the underlying mechanisms and key specificities of digital business models for two of the sector’s sub-segments—hotel accommodation bookings and yacht charter accommodation bookings. Based on the literature review findings, the case study method was applied in relation to key digital business models relevant for hotel bookings. On the other end, in relation to the yacht charter segment and its digital business models, an empirical research was conducted, encompassing a final sample of 162 yacht charter agencies from 42 countries worldwide. The analyzed digital business models have multiple similarities, while there are specific differences between the two hospitality segments. Even though digital business models are highly important in both segments, they are generally more developed and sophisticated in the hotel segment, which is related to the segment’s sheer size, in comparison with the younger and smaller yacht charter segment. The novelty is reflected in shedding more light on the characteristics of digital business models in the fast-developing yacht charter segment, including through an empirical study.

Motel Builders of the Modern West

Motel Builders of the Modern West

THE IMPACT OF VIOLENT CRIME ON TOURIST ARRIVALS IN MALAYSIA

The tourism industry plays an important role in boosting economic growth, providing job opportunities, and reducing the poverty rates in many countries. For this reason, the factors influencing tourism should be investigated, to ensure continued growth within the industry. Few studies had examined the effect of violent crime on tourist arrivals and price competitiveness in Malaysia. An increasing criminal activity and a rise in prices may discourage tourism arrivals. This paper applies an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model to estimate Malaysia's determinants of tourism arrivals, on the period from 1986 to 2016. Tourism demand is modeled as a function of economic growth, tourism accommodation, prices (proxied by exchange rates and inflation), unemployment, and the crime index to proxy criminal activity in Malaysia. The results showed that inflation can reduce the number of tourists in the long run and in the short run. Similarly, the results also show that a higher exchange rate and violent crime index can reduce the number of tourists visiting Malaysia in the short run. Economic growth can attract more tourists to Malaysia in the long run.These findings are important for the formulation and implementation of policies. The Malaysian government should combat violent crime in the first place to prevent any reduction in tourist arrivals. Increasing government expenditure on national security could lead to a reduction in the violent crime index, thus increasing the number of tourist arrivals in Malaysia.

The Design of Eco-friendly Resort, Asu Island (Organic Architecture)

This study aims to design an eco-friendly resort based on an organic architecture approach on Asu Island, Sirombu District, West Nias Regency, North Sumatra Province. The design with an organic architectural approach aims to create a space that can harmonize the indoor space with the outdoor space and can provide a space experience close to nature for resort users. In more detail, the design of eco-friendly resorts on Asu Island aims to meet tourist accommodation needs, facilitate space with attention to tourists, and analyze energy sources and utility systems on Asu Island. The site's location is right on the edge of the sea coast off Asu Island, Sirombu District, West Nias Regency, and is directly opposite the Indian Ocean. The site location selection method is measured from indicators including view, surrounding function, environment, soil condition, an overview of city structure, and accessibility. The location selection for the site was chosen based on several considerations such as view, the location of the resort that is separated from the city crowd, tourist convenience, searching for site locations via google maps and conducting direct surveys to determine site conditions. The approach used in this design is a literature study, a user approach by searching for user room data in resort design, and field studies that are directly carried out to review the condition of the site and the area around the site

Spatial pattern and micro-location rules of tourism businesses in historic towns: A case study of Pingyao, China

Sustainable tourism development in historic towns has received widespread attention, but the distribution pattern and layout rules of the tourism businesses in it are not clear. Taking the ancient city of Pingyao in China as an example, this study explores the distribution pattern and verifies influence factors of the tourism businesses by a series of multivariate analyses. A spatial database with 1126 location information of tourism businesses is established based on point of interest (POI) data, including tourism attractions, tourism shopping, tourism catering, tourism entertainment, and tourism accommodation. Spatial distribution characteristics of tourism businesses are analyzed through the methods of standard deviation ellipse and Getis-Ord G i ∗ . The influence of street networks and tourism attractions on the distribution of tourism businesses are verified by space syntax method and examined with eWOM data. The result shows that priority location roads attract tourism attractions, tourism shopping, tourism catering, and tourism entertainment, except for tourism accommodation. Tourism attractions successively attract tourism shopping, tourism catering, and tourism entertainment, but without obvious influence on tourism accommodation. The influence characteristics of street networks and tourism attractions on the distribution of tourism businesses are summarized as ‘global’ and ‘local’, ‘select’ and ‘grade’, ‘stable’ and ‘changeable’. Three suggestions on the layout of tourism businesses in historic towns are proposed. The findings have important implications for both destination management and commercial business operation. • Identified distribution pattern of 5 types of tourism businesses in Pingyao, China. • Verified effects of street networks and tourism attractions on tourism businesses. • Summarized influence characteristics of street networks and tourism attractions. • Proposed suggestions on the layout of tourism businesses in historic towns.

Platformization of Travel and Tourism Real Estate: A Study on the Operation of Online Tourist Accommodation Booking Platforms in Sri Lanka

Tourism enterprises, products and experiences, market environments, and destinations have all undergone major transformations due to digital technologies. The traditional roles of tourism producers and customers have also been changed by digitalisation, with the emerging new roles, partnerships, business models, and competencies. Therefore, it is essential to pay attention to these developments to make Sri Lanka a better tourist destination. As such, the present study explores the digital presence of tourist accommodation establishments in Sri Lanka with the intention of providing insights for a National Digital Strategy. The study is exploratory in nature and internet-based research methodology and reviewing of relevant literature. The study found that most Star Class, Unclassified and Boutique Hotels in Sri Lanka have a website and facilitate their customers to book their accommodation through the website equipped with a booking engine. In comparison, most Guest Houses, Heritage Bungalows, Heritage Homes, Home Stay Units, Hostels, Rented Apartments and Rented Homes do not have a website. It was also found that a large and growing proportion of tourist accommodation service providers who provide their services through third party Online Booking Platforms are not registered with the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority. This trend has been identified as a standard and compliance risk for all stakeholders in the industry. This study would be helpful for policymakers to understand the growing importance of these platforms and introduce incentives and appropriate guidelines for the sustainability of the tourism industry.

Empowering Employees With Glamping As An Alternative Accommodation In The New Normal Era In Kembang Merta Village, Tabanan Regency, Bali Province

The pandemic situation and the strict health protocols implemented have resulted in tourist visit decline and hotel occupancy rates decline. The government and hotel management carry out various potential businesses for the accommodation service business. In the midst of intense industry competition, the accommodation service business seeks to develop the right marketing mix by finding and understanding tourists' desires, so as to encourage tourists' decisions to stay. Tourists have different preferences for the attributes of accommodation service businesses.
 One of the things that are trending for tourists is choosing attractive, safe and comfortable accommodation, returning to nature, avoiding large crowds during the Covid-19 pandemic. The alternative presented by accommodation service entrepreneurs is glamping. Glamping is a contemporary phenomenon as an alternative accommodation for tourists. This glamorous camping (glamping) concept presents an alternative in camping, but still provides a sense of security and comfort in enjoying the natural atmosphere (Monita, 2019, Ferdian, 2020).
 Candi Kuning Tourism Village has succeeded in showing the readiness of glamping management in accepting tourists with health protocols according to the government’s rule. The revival of Bali tourism is also marked by the stretching of the increase in glamping occupancy in Candi Kuning Tourism Village, Baturiti District, Tabanan Regency. This proves the success of glamping management in a new normal era tourism, based on Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0.

MANAGEMENT OF INCLUSIVE TOURISM AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL

The key place of inclusive tourism in the structure of the social tourism organization system is determined. Theoretical principles were defined and practical experience of management of inclusive tourism as a key direction of social and economic development of Kharkiv region was studied. The main reasons that hinder the development of inclusive tourism in the regions are: insufficient developed infrastructure of the region; lack of conditions of access to establishments of accommodation and food of tourists; lack of possibility to visit museums, historical buildings, architectural monuments; lack of information on accessible tourist places and facilities for people with disabilities; lack of qualified staff to service people with disabilities. The state, regional and territorial levels of management of inclusive tourism are defined. The focus is on the role of each level of management and the main attention is paid to the activities of regional tourism centers. The leading experience of solving problems of development of inclusive tourism in the regions was demonstrated on the example of activity and implemented projects of Kharkiv organizational and methodical center of tourism. The implemented measures was established: dissemination of information on availability of a tourist destination; determination of availability of tourist objects with the purpose of their further inclusion in routes; participation in organization and conducting annual festivals on problems of inclusion in tourism; tourist service of socially disadvantaged groups; accompanying improvement of the inclusive field. Overcoming the problems of establishment and development of inclusive tourism depends on consolidation of efforts of all participants of the tourist sphere, including in the direction of creation of unique tourist routes for persons with special needs.

Clouds in the normally sunny sky? The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Dutch lifestyle entrepreneurs in the Algarve

ABSTRACT This article explores the experiences of Dutch B&B and short-term rental property owners in the rural Algarve, Portugal, as a case study on the economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for entrepreneurial lifestyle migrants. The empirical data comes from twelve in-depth interviews with Dutch lifestyle migrants who moved to and settled in the more rural areas of the eastern Algarve and started small tourism accommodation businesses. Specifically, we look at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting measures and restrictions on the economic situation of the businesses, the health and wellbeing of the business owners and their guests, as well as their accounts of social solidarity and community support. The findings reveal that there were relatively few changes in the lifestyles of the respondents and that their businesses, whilst impacted by the dramatic effects of the pandemic on travel and tourism, remained afloat. The findings confirm both the relative privilege of lifestyle migrant entrepreneurs, and the unequal impacts of the global pandemic. Their resilience to disaster is positively connected to their embeddedness in different networks. Finally, the rural location of the properties was also found to be instrumental in facing the pandemic in several ways.

Indicators for measuring tourism intensification in urban areas through their associative network: Case studies from the Spanish Mediterranean coast

Clustering of tourism-related activities leads to tourism gentrification because of urban tourism. This study proposes a methodology for identifying pattern of tourism intensification in cities. The main objectives were to conduct an in-depth measurement of tourism intensification and to consider the conflict of interest between stakeholders involved. The proposed indicator system is based on several variables measured by neighbourhoods as territorial units: citizen initiatives, population and tourist accommodations and facilities. All indicators were tested in two Spanish port cities: Malaga and Valencia. Geographic Information System mapping showed common patterns in both cities, such as tertiary use concentrated in the old town, new tourist offers around it, and emerging clusters far away. Statistical analysis showed a high spatial correlation between neighbourhoods with several citizen initiatives and a wide range of Airbnb listings or cultural facilities. The spatial analysis and correlations between tourism intensification indicators may serve as a basis for local administrations to propose an urban policy that deals with overtourism in the short and medium terms. This work serves as a basis for new research on urban tourism: redefinition and addition of variables, as well as further development of comparative case studies or field studies that check the datasets.

Influence of Non-Standard Tourist Accommodation's Environmental Stimuli on Customer Loyalty: The Mediating Effect of Emotional Experience and the Moderating Effect of Personality Traits.

In recent years, minsu (homestays), a non-standard tourist accommodation, have been gaining popularity in China. The minsu has become an innovative driving force promoting the transformation of tourist destinations. This paper attempts to explore the relationship between the minsu’s environment (ambience) and customer loyalty, as customer loyalty is crucial to the sustainability of minsu and tourism destinations. This paper adopts Lijiang, China, as an empirical example to explore the relationship between the multi-dimensional environment of minsu and its influence on customer loyalty. Findings include: (1) the multi-dimensional environment perception of minsu includes spatial, cultural and social environment perception, all of which have a significant positive impact on emotional experience in varying degrees; (2) the emotional experience of minsu guests plays a significant mediating role between the minsu’s environmental perception and loyalty; (3) personality traits of openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness play a moderating role in the impact of residential space environment perception on emotional experience. Using the S-O-R model, this paper introduces emotional experience and personality traits into the relationship model between the minsu’s environment perception and customer loyalty and contributes to extant literature on the influence of customer loyalty in tourist destinations. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Ibiza (Spain) World Heritage Site: Socio-Urban Processes in a Touristified Space

In recent years, there has been a big shift in analyses of historic centres, with the spotlight turning from the issue of urban degradation and the ageing population to studies of the risks associated with touristification and gentrification. The island of Ibiza is one of the Mediterranean’s leading tourist destinations, and its capital is one of the fifteen Spanish cities declared as World Heritage Sites (UNESCO). This study aimed to explore the touristification of Ibiza’s historic centre (a World Heritage Site). To do so, it explored three interrelated variables, the historic centre’s demographic dynamics, tourist accommodations, and heritage, through an analysis of heritage interventions derived from the UNESCO declaration. The methodology was based on the statistical use of demographic and tourism accommodation data on an inter-urban scale by mapping the main results, as well as on a study of the heritage data from the municipal catalogue. We concluded that the old city is in a state of change, both socially (with a demographic decline and drop in the native population) and culturally. All this reinforces its role as a supplier of complementary tourism services and as a museumized space for sun and sand resorts in the rest of the city and throughout the island.

Tourist accommodation pricing through peer-to-peer platform: evidence from Seville (Spain)

The expansion of holiday rentals’ worldwide makes it relevant to confirm what are the determinants of these accommodations’ daily rates. This research aims to compare two models on estimating holiday rentals’ daily rate through variables that influence it; using artificial neural networks and hedonic pricing method, with the same cross-sectional dataset and variables with data obtained from Booking.com listings from Seville (Spain), a ‘cultural tourism’ large European city. Artificial neural networks estimations adapt better than the hedonic pricing method due to non-linear relations involved, although hedonic estimators have a clearer economic interpretation. Variables related to size, location and amenities appear as the most relevant in the models, including also seasonal and special events factors. The models presented, not only help to clarify these variables but also allow estimating a rental price congruent with the characteristics of the dwelling and season, being useful as an objective valuation method for the main agents of the accommodation sector: Owners, clients and peer-to-peer platforms. This study wants to highlight the convenience of using Booking.com listings as the main data source, as two variables presented as relevant for the models (size and location) are not available in other peer-to-peer platforms like Airbnb.

Studi Komparatif Fungsionalitas, Performance dan User experience pada Website Geopark

Indonesia has great natural resources. UNESCO recognized at least six geoparks, and Indonesia will continue to develop more geoparks in the future. However, currently, Indonesia's geoparks are not widely known. One of the reasons is that the existing websites do not pay attention to performance guidelines, information, economics, and search engine optimization even though the website is a vital marketing medium so that geoparks can be promoted widely and effectively. A comprehensive study of the website contents is required to build a good geopark website. In addition, it is also necessary to study user experience when visiting web pages. This study aims to find the standard website content on the geopark website and compare existing website performance and user experience. This study compares three geopark websites. The three websites include the Ciletuh-Palabuhanratu, Hongkong geopark, and Cliff of Fundy Geosite website. Three indicators are used: website performance, user experience, and what information should be on the geopark website. These three indicators are essential as an attraction for website visitors so they can enjoy the content of the website and they can stay longer so that the visitors can turn into potential geopark tourists. Good website performance is supported by consistent ease of providing information and speed in providing information to website visitors. In comparison, the user experience visiting the website relates to the interactive visual design, organization, and navigation structure of the website framework and the completeness of the content. We use performance and user experience metrics as evaluation tools for the three selected websites. As a result, the general availability of information is as follows: information about geoparks, UNESCO, list of tourist attractions, activities, itinerary, tourist accommodation, education, contacts, language choices, news articles, pamphlets, maps, and virtual tours. In terms of performance, the three websites have slow speeds, but in cumulative layout shifts, they have good scores.

Tourism centres efficiency as spatial unites for applying blue economy approach: A case study of the Southern Red Sea region, Egypt.

This study aims to assess and analyse the efficiency of the tourism centres in the Southern Red Sea region, Egypt to apply coastal tourism development through the blue economy perspective. According to this aim, the study used two efficiency methods: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Free Disposal Hull (FDH). A total of 29 tourism centres were selected to conduct the DEA and FDH methods. These efficiency methods (DEA-FDH) used inputs and outputs variables to estimate the efficiency of the tourism centres. The selected inputs were the length of the shoreline (km), area (ha), tourism investments (million EGP), quality of coral reefs, numbers of hotels, and tourism accommodation capacity. While the outputs were employees’ number and tourists’ number. The results indicate that, generally, the tourism centres in the Southern Red Sea region of Egypt showed high-efficiency scores, which reflects their good preparedness to implement the various coastal tourism development strategies from the blue economy perspective. The tourism centres in the Safaga-Quseir tourism sector were the most efficient ones, regardless of the efficiency models used. While the tourist centres representing the Ras Banas tourism sector were the least efficient centres in the whole sample (29 tourism centres).

Pelatihan Pengolahan Makanan Pagi (Breakfast) Bagi Pelaku Wisata di Nusa Lembongan, Bali

The opening of Bali for foreign tourists certainly requires great preparation, due to the large number of tourism accommodations that have been closed for a long time and also the preparation of human resources considering that it has been almost 2 years not serving tourists due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Based on this, a short training program in the form of breakfast processing training activities for tourism actors in Nusa Lembongan was carried out. This activity aims to remind and improve the skills of tourism actors, especially in the culinary field. The method used in this training session is the presentation of theories on the application of hygiene and sanitation in food processing, restaurant/restaurant CHSE, menu knowledge, cooking demonstrations, and hands-on practice from the participants. The results of the evaluation showed that the participants were enthusiastic about participating in the training and were able to practice food processing methods

The rating of Ukraine’s regional tourist systems according to their investment potential

The development and implementation of regional tourism development programs in Ukraine require the formation of the information environment for ranking the tourist systems of Ukraine’s regions according to the attractiveness of their investment potential, which determines the purpose of this study. The methods of economic analysis and rating modeling were used to rank regional tourism systems according to their investment potential by determining the integral indicator of the economic and tourist resources of each region. Accordingly, economic indicators are chosen to provide the regions with financial, labor, and production resources; tourism indicators include supply and demand for tourism services, availability of tourism resources, tourism efficiency, as well as tourism accommodation. According to the results of rating and grouping, three groups of regions were formed: the first (the priority in terms of investment potential of the tourist system has the value of the integrated indicator from 72.0 to 94.8); the second (values from 40.2 to 71.0, reflecting the average level of investment potential); and the third (values from 25.0 to 40.1 for regions with low investment potential). The rating of regional tourist systems reflects the development level of their potential; it is an indicator of the effectiveness of its management and information base necessary for management decisions of potential investors. The asymmetry of investment potential of regional tourism systems causes an imbalance in their competitiveness, so implementing regional and national programs will help intensifying their use and equalizing regions’ development. AcknowledgmentThe paper reflects the research results within the study carried out in 2021–2024 at the State University of Trade and Economics at the request of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine “Digital Transformation of Trade, Economic and Tourist Systems of Ukraine,” state registration number 0117U000503, and “Forecasting the impact of the tourist system on the country’s economy,” state registration number 0122U001559.

How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Influenced the Tourism Behaviour of International Students in Poland?

Nearly 20 years after the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic, we are facing another COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the aim of our study was to analyse the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tourism behaviour of international students in Poland. We paid attention to the overall impact of the pandemic on life, travel, choice of tourist destination, tourism activity, ecotourism preference, and health and safety issues. We formulated two research questions: What areas of international student tourism behaviour were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic? What differences in travel behaviour occurred between international students from Europe and Asia? Participants were recruited from universities located in Warsaw between June and September 2020. A total of 806 questionnaires were collected, 87 of which were eliminated due to non-response. The research sample consisted of 719 people. Six factors were identified in the survey results: tourism inclination, impact on tourist destination, hygiene and accommodation, impact on life, impact on tourism, and mode of tourism. Impact on life and impact on tourism were attributed to the general impact dimension; tourism inclination and mode of tourism can be summarized as attitude and preference. Food and accommodation were assigned to hygiene and safety dimensions. In almost all aspects, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s lives was greater for Asian respondents. Asian respondents were more likely to say that they would avoid COVID-19-affected areas when choosing tourist destinations in the future, and avoid travelling to crowded large cities after COVID-19 ended. European survey participants’ responses were more moderate.