In analysing the impact of demand and supply shocks on US hospitality index returns, this study tests whether these shocks can explain the index returns of five hospitality sectors: airlines, gambling, hotels, restaurants, and travel and leisure, and, if so, whether they have a different influence...

This study examines the effects of advertising expenditure on Taiwanese hotel sales (and profitability), risk and returns. It further tests whether the effects of advertising expenditure on hotel sales (and profitability) risk and returns rely on the business cycle condition. Panel regression test...

By extending the hospitality finance research to the area of behavioral finance, this study examines the momentum effect in the hotel industry. This paper determines whether or not there is a momentum effect on hotel stocks in the Taiwan stock market. The results of empirical tests reveal several...

Despite extensive discussion of environmental management for hotels, little research has been done on the hotel industry's green supply chain management. This study uses the evolutionary game approach to examine the generation of green behaviors and a green supply chain by hotels. Results show that ...

This article examines the effects of institutional holdings and state ownership on hotel firm performance in China by employing panel regression analysis. The results show that institutional holdings as a whole and domestic institutional holdings have different effects on the performance of Chinese ...

This study proposes and tests two hypotheses concerning the effects of hotel industry operations on air quality based on data of 26 major tourist cities in China from 2002 to 2017. The empirical analyses take two steps. In the first step, panel regression test results reveal that hotel industry...

Heterogeneous customers' willingness to pay affects hotel competition and results in competitors' asymmetric price responses. To study this lopsided effect, we construct a game framework featuring an upscale hotel and an upper-midscale hotel under a series of assumptions. We first analyze hotel...

This study used the quantile regression method to investigate how inbound tourism market growth proxied by the growth rate of total foreign tourist arrivals (GTA) affects the growth rate of sales (GS) and financial performance of hotel firms in Taiwan. The ordinary least squares estimation results...

Historical data for the period from January 2, 1973 to May 30, 2008 show that U.S. airline, hotel, restaurant, and travel and leisure sector indices underperformed the market portfolio (S&P 500) in terms of the Sharpe ratio. This result suggests that simply buying and holding hospitality sector...

Given that the United Nations views environmental, social, and governance (ESG) as a practical framework for anchoring responsible corporate behavior to achieve its sustainable development goals, this study constructs an autoregressive jump intensity trend (ARJI-trend) model to determine if ESG can ...