Ana Ramón-Rodriguez

• PhD.
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Alicante

The rise of short-term rentals (STRs), particularly through platforms like Airbnb, has significantly influenced real estate markets, sparking widespread academic and social debate. While extensive research has focused on urban contexts, studies on traditional coastal tourist destinations remain limited. This research examines the case of Calpe, a s...

Unlike their impact on large cities, the effects of the recent boom in STRs have been little studied in coastal destinations. This working paper explores the difficulty of measuring this type of supply and its various implications for both destination management and the evolution of the tourism development model. Through a case study that applies a...

The growth and governance of tourism depend on the crucial aspects of competitiveness, sustainability, and development, which have garnered significant research interest. Traditionally studied separately, the interplay of these concepts is now explored collectively in an interesting debate on the ability to ensure the sustainability of an activity...

This article explores the complex relationship between tourism growth and economic development from academic and non-academic perspectives. The former mainly highlights the positive influence of tourism while recognizing biases and limitations that may arise from using different methodologies, variables, or temporary scenarios in research. However,...

This article proposes and theoretically develops the Real Estate Growth Hypothesis concept. It empirically investigates the connection between the expansion of tourism and the progress of real estate in Calp, an established tourist hotspot situated on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Using annual data for the period 1967-2019 and a time series met...

This study analyzes the effect of governance quality on international tourist arrival to Central Asia from 108 countries of origin over the period 2000-2018 using the gravity model. The findings show that governance quality highly impacts the behaviour of tourist arrivals. A peaceful political environment in Central Asia could lead to an increase i...

The competitiveness of tourism destinations depends on their degree of development or maturity. This article uses cluster analysis methods to establish the position in the life cycle of destinations in a pool of 154 countries. The article also explores their evolution between 2007 and 2017 doing a static comparative exercise. The position in the li...

Brunico from the 11th to the 12th of October 2023

One of the justifications for promoting tourism development is the capacity that it has to generate spillover effects on traditional economic activities. However, the strength of these spillover effects depends, largely, on the complementary or competitive nature of the traditional sector with respect to the resources used by tourism. Using time se...

The Conversation https://theconversation.com/la-sostenibilidad-se-convierte-en-la-clave-del-exito-de-los-destinos-turisticos-207763

El capítulo explica los efectos de la pandemia sobre el turismo en España y en la provincia de Alicante

Economía Industrial Núm.426: Sostenibilidad, Innovación y Competitividad Tuística Publicado: 4º trimestre, año 2022

Este estudio analiza cómo la evolución del índice del Foro Económico Mundial ha cambiado el panorama turístico internacional, abordando las principales razones por las que España ha perdido el liderazgo en competitividad turística conforme al Travel & Tourism Development Index (TTDI). Este es una actualización del Travel & Tourism Competitiveness I...

Butler's TALC (Tourism Area Life Cycle Model) is a descriptive model that has become one of the most influential and widely referenced approaches in the analysis of tourism area development. However, from an empirical point of view, and despite many attempts, the model encounters difficulties when making it operational. This article advocates the u...

The search for sustainable alternative food sources has led to the expansion of aquaculture, with the proliferation of marine farms in more and more places, some of them very touristic. The installation of these farms in the waters of consolidated Sun and Beach tourist destinations represents a planning challenge, which requires consideration of th...

I IEI WORKSHOP ON TOURISM ECONOMICS Alicante 6, 7 octubre 2022

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS AS A TOOL TO DETERMINE THE THRESHOLDS OF LIFE CYCLE OF DESTINATIONS

The tourism industry is facing the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterized by artificial intelligence and a series of disruptive technologies that are accompanying its development. Although tourism has been able to coexist and adapt to previous technological paradigms, experts warn that the current wave will be marked by more intense...

Resumen del impacto de la pandemia sobre el turismo de la provincia de Alicante.

In the current technological paradigm, the functioning of the tourism sector cannot be explained without the process of digitalization. This process takes on special relevance in tourism economics due to two issues: on the one hand, tourism is a highly dependent and sensitive sector to innovation, especially on the demand side; and on the other, it...

This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the determinants of inbound tourism to Asia. The research will focus on a combination of economic and non-economic variables applying a gravity model to a panel of 46 Asian countries of destination and 197 countries of origin for the period 1995-2016. The findings show that moderate levels of corrup...

The most widely used indicator for measuring the COVID-19 pandemic is the 14-day rate, calculated as the ratio per 100.000 inhabitants betweenthe number of confirmed cases in the last 14-day period and theregistered population of a destination. However, this indicator is notappropriate for the reality of tourist destinations where, in the absenceof...

This study takes the first step in analysing the impact of climate change on international tourist arrivals to Kazakhstan from 121 origin countries for the period 2000-2018. Despite this interest, little effort has been made to examine the relationship between time-variant climate variables and tourism demand. The study captures the destination cho...

This note explores the differences existing in the level of per capita income in residential and hotel-based tourist destinations using static panel data analysis on a pool of 136 tourist destinations of the Spanish coastline. The preliminary findings are not entirely conclusive in the sense that no model clearly outperforms the other. However, the...

This empirical study investigates the relationship between quality of life, tourism development and quality of sanitation in Central Asia. Dynamic panel data set was developed for four countries of Central Asia from 2008 to 2018. The extensive literature (Fu et al., 2020; Ridderstaat et al., 2014, 2016; Rivera, 2016) analyze the unidirectional and...

13th Online Edition Workshop on Tourism Economics & Management. 24-26 November 2021

This note explores the diff erences existing in the level of per capita income and employment creation in residential and hotel-based tourist destinations. Th e exercise is conducted on a pool of 136 tourist destinations of the Spanish coastline, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands. The results point out that in terms of income and employme...

Competitiveness, sustainability and innovation have been studied by the tourism literature at least since the 1990s. In spite of the advances made in the comprehension of these concepts, the dynamic nature of the industry continually generates new practical challenges for the public and private agents of the sector and scientific challenges for tou...

This study takes the first step to examine how tourism development improves the quality of life, economic growth and the environment or so-called sustainability in Central Asia. Central Asia is located in the path of the Great Silk Road and has a magnificent tourism capacity. However, the measurement of sustainable tourism at the regional and cross...

La industria turística más tradicional está experimentando una penúltima revolución industrial que requiere no solo de un proceso de adaptación continua por parte de los agentes implicados, sino también de un análisis de sus consecuencias. El sector turístico en España supone un pilar fundamental en su economía y empleo, sin embargo, nos encontramo...

This article explores the determinants of tourist arrivals to Central Asia using traditional gravity models and panel data analyses of 108 countries for the period 2008–2018. The research focuses on relevant variables such as income, relative price, travel costs, or the so-called economic determinants. The results reveal that tourism in Central Asi...

In recent years, tourism literature has been incorporating tourist satisfaction as a determinant of competitiveness and expenditure in destinations. It was expected a direct relationship between the variables: the better the experience, the greater the expenditure. However, previous literature has not found a strong relationship between them. This...

This article explores the determinants of tourist arrivals to Central Asia from 197 countries for the period 1995-2016 using the gravity model. The research focuses on economic and non-economic determinants. The results show that bilateral trade and colonial ties, a common border and tourism investment greatly increase the volume of tourism in Cent...

The tourism industry is undergoing accelerated changes that pose significant challenges for both destination and business managers as well as for researchers of the tourism phenomenon. Two of these challenges that are particularly relevant are the emergence of the sharing economy and its influence on the degree of overtourism perceived in the touri...

This note explores the immediate impact that the COVID-19 crisis has had on tourist and non-tourist employment in Spain as a result of the state of alarm and period of confinement decreed from March 14th. The employment and self-employment series drawn from the Social Security affiliation data corresponding to the period between January 2017 and Ap...

This paper addresses the relationship between the development of the airline industry and tourism. On the one hand, air transport has triggered the growth of tourism throughout the world, while, on the other hand, tourism has acted as a complementary product for developing new flight routes. This process has intensified with the emergence of low-co...

Tourism has been proved an important driving force for economic growth and development. Despite that, the overtourism phenomenon, hand in hand with the sharing economy, has been proved to affect destinations in multiple ways, tourism rejection or the rising of the housing prices, among others. Over the last decade and mainly since United Nations 20...

La situación provocada por la pandemia causada por el COVID-19 ha hecho replantearse todo el sistema educativo en muy poco tiempo. En el ámbito universitario en concreto, la transformación de las clases presenciales a un sistema online o dual, incluidos los procedimientos de evaluación, se han desarrollado por necesidad, en ocasiones sin una adecua...

Before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the problem of tourist destination saturation or overtourism was a hot research topic among tourism researchers. The debate was focused on the definition and measurement of the phenomenon and on establishing the conceptual models that explain it. The objective of this note is to propose the use of Newto...

This note explores the immediate impact that the COVID-19 crisis has had on tourist and non-tourist employment in Spain as a result of the state of alarm and period of confinement decreed from March 14. The employment and self-employment series drawn from the Social Security affiliation data corresponding to the period between January 2017 and Apri...

One of the most challenging tasks for tourism scientists is the prediction of potential overtourism situations in the tourist destinations. Until now, some efforts have been proposed for the purpose of establishing early warning systems. However, none of the attempts has tried to make use of a powerful prediction tool that is currently available: m...

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...

The disruption in destinations caused by the emergence of new forms of tourist distribution within the framework of the sharing economy gives rise to new challenges in terms of competitiveness, regulation and even investment. This article studies the determining factors that influence consumer decisions in the choice of rental accommodation using...

The tourism industry is undergoing accelerated changes that pose significant challenges for both destination and business managers as for the researchers of the tourism phenomenon. Among these challenges there are two specific subjects of special relevance: the irruption of the sharing economy and its influence on the degree of overtourism perceive...

This article empirically explores the relationship existing between the online reputation and tourism competitiveness of Spanish coastal tourism destinations. It is based on big data from comments made by tourists in social media. The existing literature suggests that, in theory, a destination’s online reputation plays a key role in promoting its c...

This study establishes a classification of the tourist destinations of the Region of Valencia in Spain. A cluster analysis has been conducted on a wide range of indicators related to the tourism activity of the destinations, which has then been applied a set of 60 coastal destinations and 482 inland municipalities in the region. Spatial reference f...

Despite the importance of collaborative accommodation in practically every tourist destination, to date the majority of studies have focused on large cities and urban destinations. This article distinguishes the factors that explain the added value of Airbnb properties, differentiating between urban and sun-and-beach holiday destinations. To do thi...

Obliquity in Tourism Economics: Smart and Sustainable Tourist Destinations Obliquity describes the process of achieving complex objectives indirectly. The recent emergence of the concept and paradigm of intelligent or smart tourist destinations has given rise to a proliferation of initiatives to convert many tourism destinations into smart tourism...

Catalonia is one of the most successful tourist regions in Spain. This article analyses the immediate impact that the instability associated to the recent political situation in Catalonia has had on the arrivals and spending of international tourists in the region using the classical Box-Jenkins method (ARIMA) and the more recent Bayesian Structura...

Different tourism development models have different implications in terms of their economic, social and environmental impact. This article analyses the sustainability of tourism development models and, specifically, the extent to which private vehicles are used in view of the urban configuration arising from the implementation of either a more inte...

The United Kingdom constitutes the principal tourist source market for Spain. This research note analyzes the immediate impact of the Brexit on British tourism in Spain using the Bayesian structural time series models framework. The results obtained show that between July 2016 and September 2017, Brexit has not produced any initial negative effect...

The purpose of this article is to estimate a model of hedonic prices that is applied to apartments that are rented in the Spanish coastline, based on data that has been provided by Tecnitasa. The results confirm the relevance of the determinants that were previously identified by the literature and point to new determinants, such as tourism competi...

Residential tourism and second homes are two closely related phenomena that constitute a growing research field, but the different names given to the concepts by researchers have led to a fragmented and disconnected literature. These two categories are essentially the same - or share many elements – but the research seems to be disjointed, which, i...

This article questions whether the innovation deficit observed in the tourism sector on a global scale also characterises the world's leading power in terms of tourism competitiveness and whether Spain is taking the right steps so as to guarantee the future leadership of its destinations. Spain's innovative framework will be analysed in its Europea...

Abstract This article describes the application of the concept of the intelligent tourist destination using Calp-a representative case of the tourist destinations of the Spanish Mediterranean coastline-as a case study. The analysis performed shows that the concept of intelligent tourist destination could be the first real opportunity to make operat...

Since the first paper on the subject was published in 2002, the tourism-led growth hypothesis (TLGH) has constituted one of the most predominant topics in tourism literature. Spain is a leading country in the tourism industry and one where this hypothesis has been tested with several studies confirming the relationship between Spain's tourism devel...

En este artículo se analiza la aplicación del concepto de destino turístico inteligente (DTI) en Calp, un caso representativo de los destinos turísticos del litoral Mediterráneo español. Tras analizar el ciclo de vida del destino y la sostenibilidad del modelo de desarrollo turístico implantado desde 1960, el análisis efectuado pone de manifiesto q...

RESUMEN La colaboración público-privada se prescribe como elemento fundamental en el proceso de articulación de clusters y en el diseño de una política de promoción de la competitividad turística. Esta política de promoción competitiva se antoja especialmente necesaria en perio-dos de crisis y depresión económica, pues configuran escenarios de ince...

Desde hace algunas décadas el sector turístico experimenta una transformación imparable hacia la digitalización. Los destinos turísticos inteligentes (DTI) suponen quizá el reto más importante a enfrentar en los próximos años: integrar los sectores y posibilidades tecnológicas de vanguardia (big data, nanotecnología, sensorización…) en los hábitos...

This article discusses how the slowdown in the real estate market during the most recent economic and financial crisis has affected residential tourism destinations on the Spanish coast. The afore-mentioned crisis, which gave rise to a standstill in residential activity, coincided with the turbulences experienced in the competing destinations of No...

Se puede entender que la economía colaborativa no es sino una continuación de la revolución tecnológica que vive el sector turístico, cuya naturaleza transversal, unida al alto volumen de demandantes, le permite ser un campo de pruebas, aplicación y desarrollo de numerosos avances tecnológicos. Sin duda se abren multitud de preguntas acerca de la r...

This paper compares the economic performance of holiday and residential tourism destinations in Spain, as measured by the level of retail activity, from a quantitative perspective. Differences between destinations are explored. A positive association between the economic development of destinations and their retail index was expected. However, no s...

This paper analyses the effects of the recent Arab uprisings on tourism destinations located along the Mediterranean coastline. It uses time-series analysis to model international tourist arrivals. First, autoregressive integrated moving average models are estimated for the period 1980–2009 and predicted for 2010–2014 to establish suitable country...

El turismo es una de las principales fuentes de riqueza y empleo de la provincia de Alicante. En este trabajo se estima que el Producto Interior Bruto (PIB) de la actividad turística medida en precios de mercado alcanzó en 2010 un importe de 5.963 millones de euros en la provincia de Alicante. Esto representa aproximadamente un 18 por cien del PIB...

This paper analyses the effects of economic crises on tourism destinations from a city and regional point of view. The objective is to determine which kind of Spanish "Sun and Beach" tourism destinations, residential or hotel, has better weathered the most recent economic crisis in Spain, linked to the Global Financial Crisis of 2007/8. For this pu...

In recent decades, the air transport sector has experienced major changes, including the emergence of the low-cost airlines. The strategies adopted by these new companies have given rise to a revitalization of the sector, particularly in Europe and the USA. This article analyses the pricing strategy followed by the low-cost carriers based on Porter...

This study investigates the relationship between tourism destination competitiveness and international hotel firms competitiveness from an integrated approach based on Porter (1990). A mediation model is used to link destination competitiveness, efficiency, and firm competitiveness. Global technical efficiency (GTE), pure technical efficiency (...

This paper analyzes the dynamic relationship between the degree of internationalization (DOI) and economic performance (P) in Spanish hotel firms. A longitudinal dataset for the period 2000–2013 measuring the variables DOI and P has been used to conduct a FGLS cross-section time-series regression analysis. The results pinpointed an inverted U-shape...

This note analyzes the relationship between economic crises and tourism performance in Spain during the period 1970-2013 using machine learning techniques. Specifically, a regression tree is estimated to confirm that, although the dynamics of Spanish tourism performance is influenced by the general variables established by the literature, the crisi...

This paper analyze the relationship between the evolution of the demand of the Spanish economy with respect to the main components of tourism expenditure and the degree of dependence on the economic performance of the main tourist outbound countries to Spain. Cointegration techniques are explained to investigate the existence of a relationship betw...

Authors discuss the effects that economic crises generate on the global market shares of tourism destinations, through a series of potential transmission mechanisms based on the main economic competitiveness determinants identified in the previous literature using a non-linear approach. Specifically a Markov Switching Regression approach is used to...

Purpose – This paper aims provides an empirical analysis of the development of the internationalisation process in the Spanish hotel industry, which has experienced major changes during the past decade. The degree of internationalisation between 2000 and 2010 is used as a proxy variable with the aim of mapping the development of international strat...

This paper analyses the application of the cluster concept to tourist destinations using Benidorm as a case study. A questionnaire was administered to tourism firms based in Benidorm in order to determine whether this destination currently constitutes a tourism cluster or whether it possesses the ideal characteristics to become a cluster with the p...

This study seeks to analyse the price determination of low cost airlines in Europe and the effect that Internet has on this strategy. The outcomes obtained reveal that both users and companies benefit from the use of ICTs in the purchase and sale of airline tickets: the Internet allows consumers to increase their bargaining power comparing differen...

This paper provides a theoretical model of the influence of economic crises on tourism destination performance. It discusses the temporary and permanent effects that economic crises have on the global market shares of tourism destinations through a series of potential transmission mechanisms based on the main economic competitiveness determinants i...

The significant changes which have taken place in recent years have modified the panorama of the world tourism market and made it face new challenges and opportunities. This has created the need to study the new factors and strategies which guarantee the competitiveness of firms belonging to this sector. Among other things, it becomes undoubtedly e...

La cuota de mercado es el indicador más difundido en el análisis de la competitividad empresarial para todo tipo de bienes y servicios. Sin embargo, su uso en turismo está sometido a una amplia controversia, especialmente cuando el objeto de estudio es la competitividad de los destinos turísticos. Ello es debido a que objetivos de maximización de e...

This paper analyses the applicability of the cluster concept to tourist destinations, taking Benidorm as the reference for study: a destination on the Mediterranean coast of Spain which has attained a high degree of competitive success with the sun and sand product in which it has specialized. The main result obtained is that Benidorm's success is...

The market share is the most widely used indicator in the analysis of competitiveness in trade of goods and services. However, their use in tourism is subject to a widespread controversy, especially in those cases where goes together to the territorial analysis. This is because the goals of maximization of this variable by policy-makers, can lead t...

This paper considers the influence of economic crises on Spain’s tourism competitiveness. Thiscompetitiveness is measured by its share in world tourism. Analysing a period of forty years, the permanent effects of temporary or structural economic crises on competitiveness are observed.Furthermore, it identifies the economic transmission mechanisms o...

This paper considers the influence of business cycles and economic crises on Spain's tourism competitiveness. This competitiveness is measured by its share in world tourism. Analysing the presence of unit roots in the market share series from 1958 to 2010, the permanent effects of economic crises on competitiveness are evaluated. The evidence from...