Effects of competition and quality on hotel pricing policies in an online travel agency

• Autores: Miguel Ángel Ropero García
• Localización: Tourism economics: the business and finance of tourism and recreation, ISSN 1354-8166, Vol. 19, Nº. 1, 2013, págs. 63-76
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper explores the effects of competition and service quality on pricing behaviour by hotels and tourist apartments in the Balearic and Canary Islands, Spain via an online travel agency. The results show that the price set decreases as the number of competitors increases and that the establishments offering higher quality service set their prices at a significantly higher value than other establishments. These effects increase in absolute value across the price distribution.