I risultati delle imprese ricettive e di quelle alberghiere in particolare sono spesso utilizzati come sintomo per valutare la competitività e lo stato di salute di una destinazione turistica. Infatti, i diversi segmenti stanziali attratti producono dei riflessi sulle performance competitive di...

Purpose – How do we measure the success of a hotel business? What factors determine performances? This paper seeks to explore the responses which researchers and practitioners have given to these questions in the last 20 years. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on the analysis...

Purpose – This paper aims to identify revenue per available room (RevPAR) determinants of individual firms located in a destination. Independent variables are to be sought along “what” and “where” dimensions. Design/methodology/approach – The sample is composed of 72 individual...

Purpose This paper aims to address the research question of whether family social capital affects the degree of engagement in the entrepreneurial process in the case of hospitality and tourism (H&T) new ventures, and how this relates to environment-related motivations. In particular, drawing on...

Purpose – This paper seeks to demonstrate the critical importance of the destination's decisions made in relation to market positioning in understanding the competitive performance achieved by local businesses. Design/methodology/approach – The aim of the empirical research was to check the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at the focal points of “research styles” which emerge from segmenting previous studies above all on the (continental) geographic basis of the empirical evidence employed and in particular according to their European, American or Asiatic...

Purpose – The systemic nature of tourism products generates the need for a broad involvement of destination stakeholders in the destination management organization's (DMO) activities and makes destination governance, defined as the setting up and developing of rules and mechanisms for business...

Purpose – This article aims to identify average room rate (ARR) determinants of individual firms located in a destination. Design/methodology/approach – The sample is composed of 72 individual firms, operating in the 3‐5 star category; data were collected using financial statements and...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the extent to which Business Intelligence and Big Data feature within academic research in hospitality and tourism published until 2016, by identifying research gaps and future developments and designing an agenda for future research....