Exploring Competitiveness in Mediterranean Resorts

By Andreas Papatheodorou. 2002

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This paper examines competitiveness and efficiency issues related to destinations in the Mediterranean region. Following a detailed discussion on methodology, a hedonic analysis is performed, in which the price of holiday packages is regressed on a number of package characteristics and operator and location scaling factors. Those that are statistically significant among the latter are subsequently used in a second-step correlation framework, which aims to offer a valid interpretation of the observed price differentials among core and peripheral holiday destinations. On these grounds, a number of policy measures are finally discussed.

Subfields: Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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A review of micro-analyses of tourist expenditure (2010, background): “A limited number of studies (Mangion et al., 2005; Papatheodorou, 2002) used hedonic pricing models to assess how product characteristics affect price, therefore a potential revenue for the organisation.”
Destination Competitiveness: An Analysis of Determinant Attributes (2011, background): “…Oppermann, and Fredline 1999), South Korea and Australia (Kim et al. 2001; Kim and Dwyer 2003), Spain and Turkey (Kozak 2003; Kozak and Rimmington 1999), European cities (Mazanec 1995), Mediterranean resorts (Papatheodorou 2002), Southeast Asia (Pearce 1997), and Zimbabwe (Vengesayi 2005).”
Examining the determinants of room rates for hotels in capital cities: The Oslo experience (2007, background): “For this reason it is unproblematic to use these ‘price-proposals’ as dependent variables within a price hedonic framework (cf. Israeli 2002; Papatheodorou 2002).”
The effects of beach characteristics and location with respect to hotel prices (2011, background): “Some studies have analysed the effects of location with respect to the beach on hotels’ prices (Aguiló, Alegre, & Riera, 2001; Bull, 1998; Espinet, Saez, Coenders, & Fluvià, 2003; Papatheodorou, 2002; Rigall-I-Torrent & Fluvià, 2007, 2011).”
Tourism Competitiveness: Price and Quality (2005, background): “Papatheodorou (2002) further argues that ‘the popularity of destination holiday package codes is believed to serve as a very useful proxy for expected future sales in that resort’.”
Tourism economics research: A review and assessment (2012, background): “Applications of the hedonic pricing approach in the context of tourism demand mainly focus on the prices of tour packages (e.g., Aguilo, Alegre, & Riera, 2001; Chen & Rothschild, 2010; Papatheodorou, 2002; Sinclair, Clewer, & Pack, 1990; Thrane, 2005).”
Hedonic Price Models and Sun-and-Beach Package Tours: The Norwegian Case (2005, background): “In this respect, prior research (Sinclair, Clewer, and Pack 1990; Aguilo, Alegre, and Riera 2001; Papatheodorou 2002) and conventional wisdom suggest that the star rating of a hotel—typically from 2 (economy class) to 5 (luxury class)—to a large extent is a function of the hotel’s objective and more”