This article analyzes the consequences of tourism specialization on efficiency in the hotel sector. The evidence found in other sectors and economies supports the goodness specialization. Nevertheless, tourism-led economies have particular issues that need to be addressed such as seasonality and the lack of significant tradable competitive activities that could trigger spillover effects to services. Spain provides a suitable context for a comparative case study where industrial-led provinces coexist with others that are tourism-led. The article assumes a novel panel data stochastic frontier (SF) model where inefficiency is explained by industrial and service specialization, international competitiveness, tourism specialization, quality of tourism supply, and seasonality. All variables contribute to reducing inefficiency, but service specialization makes the biggest impact. Hence, tourism-led provinces produce the highest efficiency scores.

本文分析了旅游专业化对酒店业效率的影响。在其他部门和经济体中发现的证据支持善良专业化。然而，以旅游为主导的经济体存在需要解决的特殊问题，例如季节性和缺乏可引发服务溢出效应的重要可交易竞争活动。西班牙为比较案例研究提供了一个合适的背景，其中工业主导的省份与其他旅游主导的省份共存。本文假设了一个新的面板数据随机前沿 (SF) 模型，其中低效率可以用产业和服务专业化、国际竞争力、旅游专业化、旅游供应质量和季节性来解释。所有变量都有助于减少低效率，但服务专业化的影响最大。因此，以旅游业为主导的省份的效率得分最高。