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Hotel Performance and Agglomeration of Tourist Districts

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  • Bartolom� Marco-Lajara
  • Enrique Claver-Cort�s
  • Mercedes Úbeda-Garc�a
  • Patrocinio Del Carmen Zaragoza-S�ez

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M arco -L ajara B., C laver -C ort�s E., Ú beda -G arc�a M. and Z aragoza -S �ez P. C. Hotel performance and agglomeration of tourist districts . Regional Studies . This paper measures the impact on profitability of the geographical area where the vacation hotels of the Spanish Mediterranean are situated. It places a special emphasis on analysing the tourist districts existing in this coastal Spanish area and the extent to which the degree of business agglomeration at each destination affects hotel profit. Due to the characteristics of the service sector, and after a revision of the agglomeration literature, a 'U'-shaped relationship is hypothesized between these two variables. With data of about 1869 hotels belonging to 113 tourist districts, results support the hypothesis and partially the theory of tourist districts.

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  • Bartolom� Marco-Lajara & Enrique Claver-Cort�s & Mercedes Úbeda-Garc�a & Patrocinio Del Carmen Zaragoza-S�ez, 2016. "Hotel Performance and Agglomeration of Tourist Districts," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(6), pages 1016-1035, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:50:y:2016:i:6:p:1016-1035
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2014.954535
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    1. David Boto-García & Veronica Leoni, 2022. "The hedonic value of coastal amenities in peer-to-peer markets," DEA Working Papers 94, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Departament d'Economía Aplicada.
    2. David Boto-García & Veronica Leoni, 2023. "The Economic Value of Coastal Amenities: Evidence from Beach Capitalization Effects in Peer-to-Peer Markets," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 84(2), pages 529-557, February.
    3. Claver-Cortés, Enrique & Marco-Lajara, Bartolome & Manresa-Marhuenda, Encarnación & García-Lillo, F. & Seva-Larrosa, Pedro, 2017. "Location Decisions and Agglomeration Economies: Domestic and Foreign Companies," INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional, issue 39, pages 99-135.
    4. Enrique Claver-Cortés & Bartolomé Marco-Lajara & Pedro Seva-Larrosa & Lorena Ruiz-Fernández & Eduardo Sánchez-García, 2020. "Explanatory Factors of Entrepreneurship in Food and Beverage Clusters in Spain," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(14), pages 1-22, July.
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    6. Marco-Lajara, Bartolomé & Zaragoza-Sáez, Patrocinio del Carmen & Claver-Cortés, Enrique & Úbeda-García, Mercedes & García-Lillo, Francisco, 2017. "Tourist districts and internationalization of hotel firms," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 451-464.
    7. Enrique Claver-Cortés & Bartolome Marco-Lajara & Encarnacion Manresa-Marhuenda, 2016. "Types of agglomeration economies: effects on business innovation," Contemporary Economics, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw., vol. 10(3), September.
    8. Marco-Lajara, Bartolomé & Zaragoza-Sáez, Patrocinio del Carmen & Claver-Cortés, Enrique & Úbeda-García, Mercedes, 2016. "Knowledge sources, agglomeration, and hotel performance," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 69(11), pages 4856-4861.
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    10. Marco-Lajara, Bartolomé & Úbeda-García, Mercedes & Zaragoza-Sáez, Patrocinio del Carmen & García-Lillo, Francisco, 2022. "Agglomeration, social capital and interorganizational ambidexterity in tourist districts," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 141(C), pages 126-136.
    11. Elche, Dioni & Martínez-Pérez, Ángela & García-Villaverde, Pedro M., 2017. "Inter-Organizational Relationships, Knowledge Strategy and Innovation in Clusters of Cultural Tourism," INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional, issue 39, pages 17-37.
    12. Martin Falk & Robert Steiger, 2018. "An Exploration of the Debt Ratio of Ski Lift Operators," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-16, August.

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