TOURISM PRODUCTIVITY INDICATORS IN A MULTIACTIVITY FRAMEWORK

Barnabe Walheer; Linjia Zhang

doi:10.3727/108354221X16186396395746

TOURISM PRODUCTIVITY INDICATORS IN A MULTIACTIVITY FRAMEWORK

Barnabe Walheer, Linjia Zhang^*

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Department of Economics

University of Liege

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Measuring productivity has been a hot topic in tourism research recently. This research note suggests a tailored productivity indicator capable of dealing with two important features of the tourism suppliers. First, it takes the economic objective of the tourism entities into account, which better reflects the targets of tourism entities. Second, the indicator provides a suitable tool for evaluating performance of tourism suppliers under multiple activity scenarios, which better matches the characteristics of tourism services. The empirical illustration to the Chinese star-rated hotel industry highlights the advantages of the suggested indicator for the tourism industry. In particular, we find that Chinese hotels present better performances over time, but not for every activity. This indicator can also be applied to other tourism-related industries.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	233-236
Number of pages	4
Journal	Tourism Analysis
Volume	27
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3727/108354221X16186396395746
Publication status	Published - 18 May 2022

Keywords

Luenberger–Hicks–Moorsteen indicator
Multiactivity
Productivity
Tourism

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