Purpose: This paper aims to explore two research questions. The first focuses on the main methodological characteristics of previous studies in the field of price and revenue research in terms of commercial peer-to-peer accommodation platforms (P2P APs). The second compares the 33 articles and...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the question of whether commercial, peer-to-peer accommodation platforms (Airbnb, in particular) and hotels are in fierce competition with each other with the possible presence of substitution threats, and compares the time series of the occupancy values...

Purpose: This paper aims to provide a review of hotel performance within the hospitality and tourism research domain. The authors use network analysis to examine two research questions. The first relates to ascertaining general trends within the hotel performance literature, and the second...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the effects generated by the Milan World Expo 2015 on both firm performance and seasonality structure. It aims to answer the following research question: Did the Milan Expo 2015 influence only hotel results without changing seasonal patterns, or was this mega...

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 practitioners have given to these questions in the last 20 years. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on the analysis...

Purpose – This paper aims to identify revenue per available room (RevPAR) determinants of individual firms located in a destination. Independent variables are to be sought along “what” and “where” dimensions. Design/methodology/approach – The sample is composed of 72 individual...

Purpose – Tourism systems have been considered more and more in the light of complexity and chaos theories. Most of the work done in this area has highlighted the reasons for and the issues regarding this approach. A steadily growing strand of the recent literature uses the theories to...

Purpose This paper aims to address the research question of whether family social capital affects the degree of engagement in the entrepreneurial process in the case of hospitality and tourism (H&T) new ventures, and how this relates to environment-related motivations. In particular, drawing on...

Il presente contributo nasce dall’analisi di alcune esperienze di destination management avviate da un campione di urban destination europee. L’articolo intende cogliere alcune best practices che tali modelli suggeriscono, qui proposte come vere e proprie sfide per realizzare un’effettiva...

<i> I cluster di imprese alberghiere: uno strumento innovativo per valutare le performance delle destinazioni turistiche </i> (di Ruggero Sainaghi) - ABSTRACT: Il distretto turistico (Sainaghi, 2004) è uno spazio geografico limitato, dove opera una popolazione di piccole e medie imprese (PMI), a cui...