María J. Such-Devesa

University of Alcalá | UAH · Department of Economics

The pandemic has accelerated the need for structural transformations in the tourism sector, highlighting two key aspects: sustainability as a central axis of management and the digital transformation of companies and destinations. The plans adopted address sustainability from concrete and comprehensive levels with practical and applicable points of...

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...

Este estudio analiza los factores del entorno empresarial que influyen en la actividad de las micropymes turísticas rurales dirigidas por mujeres en Costa Rica. Basándonos en la teoría institucional, se seleccionaron elementos institucionales formales (capital humano, barreras burocráticas, financiación, apoyo gubernamental) e informales (códigos d...

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El vertiginoso desarrollo que han emprendido en las últimas décadas las ciencias de la computación y todo lo relativo a Internet, hace que hoy en día se generen, registren y acumulen datos a gran escala, tanto de manera estructurada como no estructurada, conformando lo que cada vez más comúnmente se conoce como Big Data y consiguiendo inaugurar una...

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...

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...

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 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...

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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...

Este artículo de investigación tiene como objetivo definir el perfil de las mujeres emprendedoras costarricenses en el sector del turismo rural y determinar si sus características y las de sus empresas están relacionadas con su desempeño. Se adoptó una metodología mixta basada en entrevistas semiestructuradas y en profundidad. Los resultados ponen...

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...

El presente artículo pretende contribuir a la investigación de los modelos de gestión urbana considerando la economía colaborativa, añadiendo una perspectiva integradora que evalúa el impacto real en el territorio de los alojamientos reglados y no reglados en las ciudades, con el fin de garantizar la sostenibilidad de los destinos a largo plazo, la...

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...

Se puede decir que en las dos últimas décadas, el sector turístico ha estado marcado por fuertes cambios entre los que caben resaltar los avances tecnológicos, el elevado nivel de competencia y la globalización e internacionalización de los mercados, así como una mayor concentración en la industria, por lo que ha sido necesaria la búsqueda de capit...

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...

Este artículo analiza el fenómeno de la mujer emprendedora en el turismo rural en Costa Rica, enmarcándola en el contexto latinoamericano y en el de las emprendedoras rurales. A partir de una revisión sistemática de la literatura, se define el perfil de las empresarias, sus motivaciones y las barreras que enfrentan. Los resultados ponen de manifies...

Researchers generally accept that satisfaction is a determinant of tourist expenditure in destinations. This article explores the relationship between satisfaction and tourist expenditure in Calp, a consolidated ‘sun and beach’ tourist destination located on the Spanish Mediterranean coastline. Using survey data and structural equation modelling, t...

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...

This work studies the evolution of winter tourism in the main European ski resorts in recent years, exploring the degree of dependency it presents on the gross domestic product gaps of those European countries with the main registered incoming tourists attending to these ski resorts. This study consists of two parts: first, a cyclical behavior anal...

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...

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...

La expansión de las nuevas tecnologías ha permitido en los últimos años la aparición de nuevos sistemas de búsqueda de empleo o de desarrollo de oportunidades de negocio. El uso de los medios sociales ha posibilitado ampliar la capacidad de contacto entre individuos, facilitando la potenciación de sus redes de contactos e información (networking)....

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 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...

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...

El turismo en España vive un excelente momento con crecimientos tanto de la demanda nacional como internacional, después de haber demostrado con creces ser un sector estratégico de la economía española en el último medio siglo, jugando un papel fundamental en la recuperación económica actual, tal y como lo hizo en la fase de desarrollo económico de...

Tourism is among the most important activities in the Spanish economy, with Spain being one of the most significant tourism destinations worldwide. The external contribution of the international demand for tourism in Spain is a factor that must be taken into account, particularly when assessing the cyclical behaviour of tourism activities and there...

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...

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 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 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...

Se puede decir que en las dos últimas décadas, el sector turístico ha estado marcado por fuertes cambios entre los que caben resaltar los avances tecnológicos, el elevado nivel de competencia y la globalización e internacionalización de los mercados, así como una mayor concentración en la industria, por lo que ha sido necesaria la búsqueda de capit...

This chapter deals with the importance of information for tourists when they are in a large city such as Madrid. Information enriches tourist knowledge, favouring tourist spending in the city, their experiences, and satisfaction. A good communications strategy benefits both tourists and the destination. The focus of the chapter is to:Present and di...

In this study, using the Spanish domestic and outbound tourism survey FAMILITUR, an inter-regional tourism flows analysis is carried out for the period 2004–2008. The degree of concentration of origin–destination trips is calculated in order to obtain the market share of the distribution of regional trips. An intra-regional perspective is also pres...

En este trabajo se analiza el sector turístico como integrador activo del área de libre comercio euromediterránea ya que es una actividad que conjuga aspectos económicos, políticos y sociales. El artículo comienza con un análisis de la competitividad del turismo en los países socios mediterráneos y prosigue con un análisis de los planes estratégico...

This study analyses the size, efficiency and productivity of a representative sample of Spanish hotels. Using Data Envelopment Analysis, three different return-to-scale models are estimated. The number of full-time employees (FTEs), the staff cost and the number of rooms (inputs) and the total operating revenue (output) are used to estimate the lev...

Doctoral dissertations reveal the evolution and situation of research in the field in which they are performed. Most research on doctoral dissertations is based on abstracts written by their authors. These abstracts should synthesize well the content of each doctoral theses. This paper analyzes the evolution and characteristics of tourism doctoral...

This work contains a critical review of main econometric studies that have addressed the analysis of causality between tourism and long-term economic growth. These studies have employed a variety of methodologies, models such as VAR, VECM, ARDL, ARCH, GARCH, cross section and panel data. In general using a test of cointegration of economic variable...

Existe la creencia que el reconocimiento por la UNESCO de un lugar como Patrimonio Mundial es un factor importante para atraer turistas hacia el mismo, aunque los datos disponibles no sean suficientes para poder llegar a conclusiones definitivas. Este trabajo analiza la utilización de la denominación Patrimonio Mundial en la información-comunicació...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain the onshore satisfaction of cruise passengers, in the port of call of Cartagena de Indias. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire was given to 1,361 passengers of 28 cruise ships during October and November of 2009, then factor analysis and cluster analysis were employed. Findings The results s...

This paper explores how residents in the Caribbean city of Cartagena de Indias regard cruise tourism as affecting their community. Local attitudes and perceptions allowed it to segment the community's opinion into six different groups using a hierarchical cluster analysis. The overall results indicate the cruise industry is perceived as positive fr...

This paper focuses on earnings management around earnings benchmarks (avoiding losses and earnings decreases hypothesis) in international firms and non international firms belonging to the Spanish hotel industry. First, frequency histograms are used to determine the existence of a discontinuity in earnings in both segments. Second, the use of discr...

This article analyses the indebtedness of the companies belonging to the Spanish hotel industry. The internationalization process of Spanish hotel companies requires a new approach to their financial strategies. The form of expansion chosen in this process has an impact on the pace and volume of the funds needed for it. Other items are incorporated...

An analysis of more than 1,990 Spanish hotel firms, large and small, over a period of five years found evidence that operating executives are not indifferent to earnings outcomes. As found in previous studies of other industries in other countries, the distribution of earnings outcomes shows a discontinuity near zero, such that one finds abnormally...

Este trabajo se centra en la gestión del resultado hacia unos umbrales de rentabilidad que se consideran críticos: evitar declarar pérdidas y descensos en resultados, en una muestra de empresas hoteleras. El estudio empírico se divide en dos etapas. En primer lugar, se plantean los histogramas de frecuencias para detectar la existencia de una disco...

This paper focuses on an avoidance of earnings decreases and losses hypothesis in the Spanish hotel industry. In the first step, the earnings distribution (levels and changes in earnings related to one year against the previous year) is analysed to determine whether there is a discontinuity (that is, a 'kink') at the zero point. The methodology use...

The aim of this paper is to afford a demand study to state a profile of tourists who visit these villages and to consider if they are satisfied with the destination. We find an oversupply, an overall view of low quality and there is no information about the demand relating to the area, and because of that, the services and infrastructure developmen...

Este trabajo contiene una revisión crítica de los principales estudios econométricos que se han ocupado del análisis de la relación de causalidad entre el turismo y el crecimiento económico de largo plazo. Los artículos incluidos realizan un test de cointegración de variables económicas y estudian la causalidad de Granger. Este trabajo muestra que...

Este trabajo se centra en la gestión del resultado en torno a la hipótesis de evitar pérdidas y descensos en resultados en una muestra de empresas hoteleras internacionalizadas y no internacionalizadas. En primer lugar, se plantean los histogramas de frecuencias para ambas submuestras con el objetivo de comprobar la existencia de una discontinuidad...

The aim of this article is to analyse the main changes that have taken place in the Spanish hotel sector and their impact on the efficiency and total productivity of the factors in the segment of Spanish hotel companies appraised. Performance is assessed by means of the non-parametric frontier methodology and the trend in productivity by means of M...

In this paper, two earnings targets - avoiding losses and earnings decreases - are analyzed in Spanish hotel industry. The methodology used as a proxy to earnings targets is frequency histograms. Particularly, the existence of a "kink" in the distribution of reported earnings around zero is examined. The access to financial resources to start or to...

Desde la Asociación Española de Ex- pertos Científicos en Turismo (AECIT) nos sentimos orgullosos por la constatación de una apreciable mejora en la calidad media de las comunicaciones recibidas y someti- das a evaluación para su defensa en el Con- greso. Más allá de buscar soluciones a la actual coyuntura de crisis económica, nos enfrentamos al re...

This paper empirically analyzes the indebtedness of the main companies in the Spanish hotel industry. In particular, it introduces a method to analyze the structures and dynamics of the largest companies in this sector. The method combines the Pearson correlation coefficient with the nearest neighbour single linkage clustering algorithm (Mantegna,...

We introduce a model of tourism choice where we consider that the choice of a tourism resort by a tourist, depends not only on the characteristics of the product offered by the resort but depends also on certain characteristics -crowding types- of the other tourists that have chosen the same resort. To get insights about the effect of crowding type...

This paper focuses on earnings benchmarks (avoiding earnings and decreases in earnings hypothesis) using a sample of Spanish hotel firms. First, we examine whether there is a discontinuity at zero point in the earnings distribution. Second, we investigate whether such a kink was driven by managers exploiting their discretion in accruals to avoid re...

Multinational Spanish hotel chains currently are undergoing a process of internationalization. This process demands a new approach to their financial strategies and thus will modify, or already has modified, their traditional financial structures. The authors define companies' financial structure on the basis of a wide set of financial ratios group...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the contribution of tourism to economic growth in Colombia. First, we perform an ex-post analysis and quantify the contribution of the tourism to economic growth from the early 90’s until 2006 by disaggregating growth of real GDP per capita into economic growth generated by tourism and by other industries...

In a recent work, Ivanov and Webster (2007) present a methodology for measuring the contribution of tourism to economic growth and apply this methodology to the cases of Cyprus, Greece and Spain. The method uses the growth of real GDP per capita as a measure of economic growth and disaggregates it into economic growth generated by tourism and econo...

In this paper we empirically analyze the phenomena of indebtedness of the main companies belonging to the Spanish hotel industry. In particular, we introduce a method to analyze the structure and dynamics of the largest companies in this sector. The method combines the Pearson correlation coefficient with the nearest neighbor single linkage cluster...

In this paper we investigate the contribution of tourism to economic growth in Colombia. We first use the growth of real GDP per capita disaggregating it into economic growth generated by tourism and by other industries. This measure gives information of past performance of tourism in Colombia indicating the fraction of the growth of real GDP that...

La primacía de la financiación de carácter intermediado en España frente a alternativas de predominio de la financiación directa a través de los mercados, ha configurado un panorama en el que el protagonismo de la financiación de origen bancario ha sido una realidad generalizable al conjunto de los sectores económicos y por tanto, de la que el sect...

En este artículo se presenta una metodología para medir la contribución del turismo al crecimiento económico. Ésta consiste en el desglose del crecimiento económico generado por el turismo y el crecimiento económico generado por el resto de las actividades económicas. Después el método se aplica al caso de España, Francia, Italia, Reino Unido y Est...

In a recent work, Ivanov and Webster (2007) present a methodology for measuring the contribution of tourism to economic growth and apply this methodology to the cases of Cyprus, Greece and Spain. The method uses the growth of real GDP per capita as a measure of economic growth and disaggregates it into economic growth generated by tourism and econo...

This paper aims firstly to review the theoretical and empirical contributions relating to the factors determining the financial structures of companies, particularly hotel companies, and secondly to identify empirically the factors determining decisions by Spanish multinational hotel companies to indebt themselves. Initially, this empirical study m...

This paper explores a recent method for measuring the tourism contribution to an economy's performance and compares it with others methodologies. The method uses the rate of growth of real per capita GDP and disaggregates it into a growth component that can be imputed to tourism and growth generated by other industries. It is applied to two groups...

RESUMEN Este trabajo plantea un análisis del endeudamiento en un conjunto de empresas españolas pertenecientes al sector hotelero, al tiempo que realiza un estudio de carácter submuestral para determinar matices en el comportamiento general de dicho sector. El proceso de internacionalización en el que se encuentran inmersas las empresas hoteleras e...

This article analyses the indebtedness of the companies that belong to the Spanish hotel industry. At the same time, there have been done some segmentation in the sample attending different criteria to refine the study. The internationalisation process in which multinational Spanish hotel companies are at present immersed requires a new approach to...

Tourism in Spain is of great importance in its impact on production and employment; this paper focuses on these economic variables to construct an indicator of productivity. The hospitality sector is taken as the reference activity due to a lack of specific data for tourism. Details of tourism behavior patterns during the last decades have been ana...

El sector turístico español ha experimentado un espectacular desarrollo a lo largo del siglo XX, de especial intensidad en la segunda mitad del mismo, realidad que contrasta con la relativa escasez de estudios dedicados al sector más importante en la economía española, particularmente los referidos a aspectos financieros. El estudio de las fuentes...

RESUMEN Este artículo analiza el espacio geográfico delimitado por el Parque Natural del Alto Tajo, buscando métodos y sistemas cuya implantación permitan un desarrollo de la zona des-de el punto de vista turístico y que, por otro lado, asegure la compatibilidad de las medidas de desarrollo que se emprendan con las exigencias y ventajas que supone...

In this paper we empirically analyze the phenomena of indebtedness of the main companies belonging to the Spanish hotel industry. In particular, we introduce a method to analyze the structure and dynamics of the largest companies in this sector. The method combines the Pearson correlation coefficient with the nearest neighbor single linkage cluster...