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 …

This article presents a comprehensive review of frontier studies in the tourism literature. We
discuss the main advantages and disadvantages of the various frontier approaches, in …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

As environmentally sustainable practices are becoming popular in the hotel industry, their
impact on efficiency is an important issue. To investigate the performance of hotels in this …

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has gained much popularity in performance
measurement of power industry. This paper presents a slack-based measure approach to …

Few studies have analysed the challenges that the countries may have to face to become
competitive as tourism destinations. To address this gap, this research analyses …

This paper proposes a new two-step stochastic frontier approach to estimate technical
efficiency (TE) scores for firms in different groups adopting distinct technologies. Analogous …

Competitiveness has been a subject of study in the manufacturing and related sectors since
the early 1990s. However, only recently have some researchers started to examine the …

This study discusses, by means of data envelopment analysis, the efficiency of individual
hotels belonging to the Portuguese state-owned chain, Pousadas de Portugal, which is …

采用数据包络分析方法(Data Envelopment Analysis, DEA), 测度2005 年和2010 年安徽省17
个城市旅游资源利用的综合效率, 技术效率和规模效率, 利用Malmquist 生产率指数模型计算 …