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Business Performance in the Tourism Industry and New Business Models in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Perspectives for Sustainability

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 2764

Special Issue Editors

Business and Accounting, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: business performance; financial performance; sustainability; sustainable development goals; circular economy; financial reporting; financial statements analysis
Business and Accounting, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: business performance; tourism destination competitiveness; tourism firm efficiency; DEA models; hospitality industry; regional analysis; circular economy and sustainability

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable practices in the tourism industry are a crucial topic worldwide. Sustainable tourism practices should integrate aspects such as diversity, quality, and social, economic, and environmental objectives with business objectives such as profitability and competitiveness. Technological innovation, circular economy, and sustainability will define the business models and tourism industry over the coming years.

This Special Issue mainly covers the assessment of business performance in the tourism industry from a sustainability perspective. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following aspects:

  • The relationship between sustainable practices and socially responsible practices with business results, including efficiency, productivity, and profitability, among others;
  • Indicators to measure sustainable practices, non-financial objectives, and environmental and social objectives;
  • Analytical processes that enable companies to achieve pre-selected goals and sustainable practices;
  • Corporate governance, diversity, and behavioral changes to achieve sustainable practices, good management practices, and economic, environmental, and social objectives;
  • Eco-innovation, circular economy, and eco-efficiency for long‐term sustainability and sustainable development goals;
  • Successful business entrepreneurs based not only on key performance indicators but also on sustainable objectives;
  • Sustainable development goals: a balance from governments, institutions, agencies, companies, and stakeholders.

Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe disruption in business models around the world, and the tourism industry is strongly affected. In this context, companies need to adapt their business to survive over the coming years. The COVID-19 pandemic can create opportunities and provide a window for promoting sustainability worldwide. Therefore, this volume also aims to collect research with a focus on new business models for sustainability in the tourism industry in the post-COVID-19 era.

Prof. Dr. Laura Parte
Prof. Dr. Pilar Alberca
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • business performance
  • financial and non-financial performance
  • sustainable development goals and sustainable practices
  • eco-efficiency and environmental objectives
  • circular economy and eco-innovation
  • corporate governance, board diversity and gender
  • change management and organizational behavior changes for sustainability
  • entrepreneurship, business success and sustainability
  • COVID-19 pandemic
  • new business models and opportunities for tourism sustainability

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19 pages, 1009 KiB  
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Business Performance Evaluation for Tourism Factory: Using DEA Approach and Delphi Method
by Ti-An Chen
Sustainability 2022, 14(15), 9209; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14159209 - 27 Jul 2022
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Abstract
The tourism industry contributes more than 10% of global GDP, and creates than 330 million jobs. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, tourism has been one of the hardest hit areas, and one of the most explosive growth sectors, in the post-COVID-19 era. This [...] Read more.
The tourism industry contributes more than 10% of global GDP, and creates than 330 million jobs. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, tourism has been one of the hardest hit areas, and one of the most explosive growth sectors, in the post-COVID-19 era. This study analyses the operational efficiency of tourism factories, before and after the COVID-19 outbreak. This study develops a PADME (Product, Aesthetic, Digitalization, Management and Experience) efficiency evaluation model for the non-financial components of tourism factories. This study has also successfully developed the evaluation scale of the PADME model. In addition, with reference to studies on the operational efficiency of financial components, two output variables (turnover and net profit after tax), and three input variables (assets, R&D expenses, and employees) were set, and the efficiency of the PADME model was calculated. The data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach was used to measure the operational efficiency of tourism factories. The empirical research goals of this study are focused on 12 listed companies in Taiwan, with operational efficiency before and after COVID-19 analyzed in relation to their general and individual analyses. The conclusions of this study lead to both enlightening and practical management implications. Academically, this study fills a gap in the research on operational efficiency of tourism factories in the tourism industry. Full article
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