Although Airbnb's impact on hotels has been quantified for major hotel markets in the United States, these effects have not been quantified in international hotel markets. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to examine the effects of Airbnb listings on key hotel performance metrics in an...

Covid-19 had a devastating effect and hugely impacted the entire global economy, particularly in the hospitality business. The accommodation sector is one of the hardest hit, especially the smaller tourism businesses like independent hotels. In line with this, this conceptual paper aims to study...

The performance of the hotel industry is closely related to local socio-economic conditions and the surrounding natural environment; however, these elements are largely ignored in academia and practice. Based on a mechanism that couples the hospitality industry and regional development, this...

Providing temporary accommodation for visitors, hotels usually make permanent location choices as a strategic managerial decision. This study is shaped around the research question of how urban hotels appreciate their locational attributes considering their operationality. By this way, it is aimed...

In recent years, short-term rental platforms in the lodging sector, including Airbnb, VRBO, and HomeAway, have received extensive attention and emerged as potentially alternative suppliers of services traditionally provided by established commercial accommodation providers, that is, hotels....

In this article, we study the influence of the room properties, hotel amenities, hotel location, and, more importantly, the characteristics of hotels in the surrounding area on the prices of hotel rooms. The effects of different determinants are estimated using the hedonic price model for a...

The power of pet influencers has been increasingly recognized by hospitality and tourism practitioners as more people choose to travel with their pets these days. Pet influencers are social media influencers whose primary focus is on pets. An effective social media post by pet influencers can...

The study aims to evaluate the status of literary hotels in literary tourism and to discuss whether literary hotels are just a literary tourism product or should be a separate type of literary tourism. The study seeks to answer the following questions: (1) What are the literary connections of...

The number of halal business hotel concept in Turkey in recent years, especially in regions where intensive maritime tourism has been increasing. However, there are no such hotels in the Cappadocia destination. The main purpose of this study is to determine the thoughts of hotel managers in the...

Previous research suggests that tourism has a role to play in challenging the destructive dominant narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian context - discourses that traditionally have, and still do, revolve around sectarianism, Othering and violence. Our case study focuses on a hostel in the...