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Volume 13 Number 7 Year 2014

10 articles in this issue 

Guillermo Ceballos-Santamaría, Juan-José Villanueva-Álvaro

In EU governments, there is widespread concern of the current trends in small businesses. Their importance in generating wealth and employment justifies the adoption of economic measures to foster their development and durability. Experience shows that fe... see more

 

Maria-Encarnacion Andres-Martinez, Juan-Antonio Mondejar-Jimenez, Miguel-Angel Gomez-Borja, Jose-Louis Alfaro-Navarro

The number of tourist products sold on the Internet has increased remarkably in recent years. The hotel industry has figured prominently in this boom due to hotel bookings made via the Internet becoming increasingly popular. The reason for this upturn in ... see more

 

Alejandro Garcia-Pozo, Andres Marchante-Mera, Jose Luis Sanchez-Ollero

The authors analyze the effect of labour flexibility on productivity in the Andalusian hotel industry. For this purpose, the authors use the results from the Quality, Productivity and Competitiveness in the Hospitality Industry for Andalusia project (PO7/... see more

 

Maria-Carmen Garcia-Centeno, Gema Fernandez-Aviles

Pollution and environmental factors are a core topic because they influence in air quality of the different areas of a city. This is why in this article we propose to apply a multicriteria decision aid method (the Promethee) to establish a ranking among t... see more

 

Juan Ignacio Pulido-Fernandez, Yaiza Lopez-Sanchez

This paper demonstrates that different assessments of the tourism attributes of a destination exist according to whether the perception of those tourists visiting that destination is that it is sustainable or whether, on the contrary, they perceive that i... see more

 

Montserrat Manzaneque Lizano, Regino Banegas Ochovo, Alba Maria Priego de la Cruz

This paper verifies empirically the link between employee job satisfaction and the rate of failure, understood as cessation of activity. The authors examine a sample of nine industrial sectors during the period 2007-2010. The results show that job satisfa... see more

 

Antonio Villanueva-Cuevas

In Spain, the Autonomous Regions have exclusive responsibility for tourism matters and, given this fact, they have adopted general management and regulation laws to govern the sector. These laws have different names but all include the term tourism in the... see more

 

Jose Vicente Sanchis Verdeguer, Angel Peiro-Signes, Maria-del-Val Segarra-Ona

A growing trend in the hospitality industry is the promotion of products and services on social networks as an effective and economical way to reach a very important population mass with a bidirectional speech.The aim of this paper is to explore the proce... see more

 

Alba Maria Priego de la Cruz, Montserrat Manzaneque Lizano, Elena Merino Madrid

This investigation verifies the impact of corporate governance measure on the likelihood of financial distress on the Spanish Stock Exchange for the time period from 2007 to 2012. The authors applied an empirical study with panel data and conducted regres... see more

 

Claudia Sevilla-Sevilla, Maria Dolores Reina-Paz, Ainhoa Rodriguez-Oromendia

The embrace of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by the Spanish hospitality industry is still in the early stages. Few hotel companies publish sustainability reports, although the number of tourism and distribution channel organizations (tour operator... see more