Evaluation and Decomposition of Tourism Inefficiency Considering Heterogeneous Technology: An Empirical Study from China

• Published in: Journal of hospitality & tourism research (Washington, D.C.) Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 370 - 399
• Main Authors: Zha, Jianping, He, Dongqin, Zhu, Ying, Yang, Xiaojie, Luo, Mingzhi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.02.2022; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Data envelopment analysis; Tourism; Travel agencies; China; sectoral heterogeneity; regional heterogeneity; structural meta-frontier SBM-DEA model; Luenberger index

Considering both sectoral and regional heterogeneities, this article develops a structural meta-frontier slacks-based measure data envelopment analysis model to decompose the inefficiency level, input reduction and output expansion potentials and efficiency change into three components: sectoral het...