Towards an economic-geographical approach to the globalisation of the hotel industry
Towards an economic-geographical approach to the globalisation of the hotel industry
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采用经济地理方法实现酒店业全球化
DOI：
10.1080/14616688.2013.867528
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
P. Niewiadomski
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作者：
P. Niewiadomski
在经济地理学领域，酒店业在很大程度上研究不足。与此同时，旅游业在世界范围内的发展已经达到了经济地理学家不能再忽视的水平，如果要理解旅游生产系统，更普遍地说，服务的全球化。本文的论点是双重的。首先，有人认为，从经济地理学的角度来研究酒店业，可以大大提高我们对旅游业这一重要分部门的认识。虽然本文认识到酒店业的国际化/全球化的管理和商业研究中阐述了有益的见解，它认为，他们没有探索酒店业的全球化在三个重要方面：酒店业的多演员性质，酒店集团在东道国市场的地域嵌入性和扩大酒店集团对经济发展的影响。鉴于这些差距是地理上的，本文认为，全球生产网络的方法作为一个有效的理论平台，他们可以解决的情况。其次，有人认为，酒店业可以作为一个很好的行业案例，通过它我们的服务全球化的理解可以提前。加强对酒店集团商业模式的关注被认为是这两个进步的关键。
In the field of economic geography, the hotel industry is largely under-researched. Meanwhile, its worldwide development has reached the level whereby it can no longer be neglected by economic geographers if the tourism production system and, more generally, the globalisation of services are to be understood. The argument of this paper is twofold. First, it is contended that an economic-geographical approach to the hotel industry can significantly enhance our understanding of this important sub-sector of tourism. Although the paper recognises the useful insights into the internationalisation/globalisation of the hotel industry elaborated within management and business studies, it argues that they fall short of exploring the globalisation of the hotel sector in three important respects: the multi-actor nature of the hotel industry, the territorial embeddedness of hotel groups in host markets and the influence of expanding hotel groups on economic development. Given that these gaps are geographical in nature, the paper argues the case for the global production networks approach as an effective theoretical platform from which they can be addressed. Second, it is argued that the hotel industry can serve as a good sectoral case through which our understanding of the globalisation of services can be advanced. Enhanced attention to business models of hotel groups is argued to be a key to both of these advancements.