What determines multinational hotel groups’ locational investment choice in China?

Zhang, Hanqin Qiu; Guillet, Basak Denizci; Gao, Wendy

doi:10.1016/j.ijhm.2011.05.008

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“…This economic condition measure reflects the market size and the local purchasing power for the hospitality industry. Moreover, the positive effect of tourist arrivals corroborates the results from Kundu and Contractor (1999) and Zhang, et al (2012), and incoming tourists are a major market for the hospitality industry. Finally, the positive association with the foreign direct investment is in line with the results from several past papers (Kundu & Contractor, 1999;Zhang et al, 2012), and foreign investment brings in a large number of business travelers.…”

Section: Bivariate Local Statisticssupporting

confidence: 81%

Spatial pattern of hotel distribution in China

Luo

Yang

2013

Tourism and Hospitality Research

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This paper aims to investigate the spatial pattern of hotel distribution in Chinese cities and shed light on the factors shaping this pattern. Several spatial data analysis methods are applied to examine the number of starrated hotels in 342 Chinese cities from 2001 to 2010 as well as the number of budget hotels in 2008. Three significant hot-spot areas for star-rated hotels have been identified in 2010, namely, the Yangtze River Delta cluster, the Pearl River Delta cluster, and the Beijing-Tianjin cluster. Furthermore, based on the results from bivariate local Moran statistics, the star-rated hotel hot-spots are found to be spatially associated with local economic condition, foreign investment dependence, and the level of tourism development.

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Section: Bivariate Local Statisticssupporting

confidence: 81%

Spatial pattern of hotel distribution in China

Luo

Yang

2013

Tourism and Hospitality Research

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“…As far as the explanations for location choice and spatial distribution of companies providing accommodation and foodservices are concerned, the main research approach employed in recent studies consists of regression methods, based on classical economic theory (Zhang et al 2012, Yang et al 2014. Usually the explanatory variables used in the regression models are relating to labour, culture, capital and policy characteristics.…”

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A Spatial Analysis of Tourism Infrastructure in Romania: Spotlight on Accommodation and Food Service Companies

Constantin

Reveiu

2018

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Abstract. In recent decades the supply perspective of tourism, focusing on large agglomerations of tourism companies that bring benefits in terms of positive externalities at destination, has been more and more emphasized. It has become a complement of the classical demand-based perspective, which points to the availability of resources (attractions) demanded by tourists as the exclusive explanation for the location decisions of tourist companies. In line with these new orientations, our paper proposes an inquiry into the spatial distribution of accommodation and foodservice companies in Romania, seeking to reveal whether a significant cross-correlation between these two segments of tourism infrastructure occurs and, in case of an affirmative answer, to discuss their significance for tourism development policies. With this aim in view, the investigation methodology utilises a series of analytical tools that combine GIS and spatial agglomeration analysis based techniques, applied to datasets capturing all companies represented in the tourism industry in Romania provided by the National Authority for Tourism, combined with spatial data from the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). The results indicate an uneven territorial distribution of tourism infrastructure compared to the location of tourist attractions, significant differences between the geographical distribution of the accommodation and foodservice companies and suggest differentiated policies for supporting tourism infrastructure, in accordance with the specific needs of the tourist areas.JEL classification: C19, C88, L83, R12

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“…Additionally, strategic levers will appear without the term 'global'. This is because, with a few exceptions, the majority of international hotels rarely operate globally, but are more concerned with international operations within their home regions, or outside of their home base merely entertain few flagship sites in order to cater to international business travellers (Whitla et al, 2007;Rugman & Verbeke, 2008 Contractor and Kundu, 1998;Contractor et al, 2003;Yang and Wang, 2004;Hallin and Marnburg, 2008;Zhang et al, 2012 Standardisation of services…”

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“…6;2015 of the local workforce, educational institutions, or local supplier networks, all this might require a hotel to be present and hence, increases the incentive to develop a significant establishment in the host country, driven by formal institutional distance. Empirical evidence for that has been limited mostly to a national level only, international hotel management research is still in its infancy (Yang & Wang, 2004;Hallin & Marnburg, 2008;Zhang et al, 2012).…”

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“…Although aspects of cultural distance and agency theory are discussed, the key enabling or frictional characteristics of institutions have not been integrated in their framework. Zhang et al (2012) investigate the investment choice of multinational hotel groups in China. Although institutional factors have been considered in both articles, no theoretical framework has been provided.…”

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International Hotel Strategy and Institutional Distance: A Conceptual Framework

Dahms¹

2015

IJBM

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In recent international hotel strategy literature, institutional differences between home and host country have been mostly neglected. Although concepts such as institutional distance have become more prevalent as analytical tools in the mainstream international business literature, not much of it has so far been adopted in the wider field of international hospitality management. The objective of this article is to propose a conceptual framework that is based on insights from new institutional economics in order to further our understanding of international strategies for hotels. It introduces the concept of institutional distance as a supplement to Yip's popular global strategy framework. This article aims at providing a template for active researchers in the field to embed their empirical contributions within the wider international business literature.

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What determines multinational hotel groups’ locational investment choice in China?

Cited by 58 publications

References 21 publications

Spatial pattern of hotel distribution in China

Spatial pattern of hotel distribution in China

A Spatial Analysis of Tourism Infrastructure in Romania: Spotlight on Accommodation and Food Service Companies

International Hotel Strategy and Institutional Distance: A Conceptual Framework

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