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Travel agencies in Alicante, Spain: a productivity analysis
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Álvarez-Suárez, Alberto Fuentes, Ramón |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide lines of action based on the results aimed at improving the future levels of productivity of the travel agencies in Alicante.Design/methodology/approach – Estimates of output‐oriented Malmquist Productivity Indices and the values of their components will be calculated. Furthermore, in order to avoid problems that may arise from these results (which are based on finite samples that are sensitive to sampling variations) bootstrapping techniques (smoothed bootstrap) are used. Lastly, the Mann‐Whitney‐U test is used in order to accept or reject the influence that different factors have on productivity levels.Findings – This study is a continuation of previous studies analysing the variation productivity of 22 travel agencies located in Alicante (Spain) over the period 2008‐2010. The results obtained from applying the afore‐mentioned methods do not provide substantially different conclusions to those obtained in previous studies. The authors can observe that th... |
| Starting Page | 560 |
| Ending Page | 577 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1108/17542731111157653 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.albertoalvarezsuarez.es/Doc/13Articulo_ingles_fuentes.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1108/17542731111157653 |
| Volume Number | 23 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |