Periódico: Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research
Fonte: Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research; Vol 4 No 1 (2021): Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research; 181-201
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Resumo: The prevailing economic reality in the tourism sector in recent decades is associated with the growth, dissemination and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Based on the debate generated in the literature between the intensive use of ICTs and the improvement of business efficiency, it has shown a clear convergence in different economic sectors.
The present research aims to carry out the empirical analysis in order to respond to two hypotheses: the first one has tried to contrast the existence of a positive relationship between the Technical Efficiency (TE) of the Spanish hotel companies and the use of the ICT. While a second hypothesis is associated with the analysis of the impact that the legal form of the company has on the TE.
In order to be able to test said hypotheses, the estimation of the TE has been carried out by means of the parametric method of the stochastic frontier. The decision trees have been used to observe the impact of the legal form on the TE. For this purpose, a sample of 214 Spanish companies has been used in the 2009-2016 period. The data are extracted from SABI.
The results obtained lead us to conclude how the use of ICT is configured as an influential factor in DE in a significant and positive way. As well as the companies that are constituted as Limited Companies have a greater effect on the DE in relation to the Corporations.
