Hotel performance and knowledge sources in Spanish tourism districts

Bartolomé Marco-Lajara, Patrocinio del Carmen Zaragoza-Sáez, Enrique Claver-Cortés and Mercedes Úbeda-García

Current Issues in Tourism, 2018, vol. 21, issue 17, 1988-2013

Abstract: The present paper brings together two of the research lines which have proved most relevant in the field of strategic management during the last few years: the importance of knowledge as a source of competitive advantage; and the ease of access to that resource within clusters and/or industrial districts. More specifically, our work focuses on the tourism sector, analysing the extent to which the profitability of Spanish vacation hotels located along the Mediterranean coastline depends on internal and external knowledge, that is, on the knowledge resources generated at each destination. A multiple linear regression is designed for the empirical analysis. The evidence supports the hypothesis that the external knowledge generated at each destination is statistically significant, even though internal knowledge turns out to be more relevant in terms of hotel profitability.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2016.1225696

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