Journal
TOURISM MANAGEMENT
Volume 86, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2021.104348
Keywords
Festival tourism; Efficiency; Stochastic frontier analysis; Metafrontier; Truncated regression with double; bootstrapping
Funding
- Hansung University
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This study analyzed the efficiency of local festival tourism in Korea using parametric and non-parametric approaches, finding that the main sources of inefficiency were pure technology inefficiency. Tailored operational strategies may maximize efficiency for different types of festivals.
Local festivals may leverage local specialties and various historical, cultural, and artistic resources throughout their respective regions to attract tourists, inducing positive economic impacts. In this study, this paper is a first attempt to analyze the relative efficiency of local festival tourism by using parametric and non-parametric approaches with the data from local festivals held in Korea from 2015 to 2018. We also deal with the efficiency determinants of each typology of festivals by employing a truncated regression with double bootstrapping. Results showed that the leading sources of inefficiency were primarily embedded in pure technology inefficiency, while the principal operational drivers posed different effects depending on the typology of festivals. These insights have important practical implications for the local festival organizing committees and operators in Korea and are helpful in developing tailored operational strategies to maximize the efficiency among different typologies of festivals.
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