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Francisco Javier Sáez-Fernández
Department of Spanish and International Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

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Journal article
Published: 15 July 2020 in Water
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Tourist activity has a number of impacts on the destinations in which it takes place, among which are the environmental ones. A particular problem is the increase in water demand and wastewater production, which can compromise the balance of ecosystems. As many authors point out, there is a research gap in the comparative analysis between available water resources and the demand associated with tourism. In this respect, the main objective of this work is, on the one hand, to assess the water needs linked to the tourism industry and the capacity of natural resources to meet such a demand and, on the other hand, to estimate the economic cost of the water supply associated with the growing tourist demand in a territory, such as the island of Ibiza in Spain. It has been determined that the resources available are not sufficient to meet the water demand of the resident population at this destination, which is why it is necessary to resort to producing desalinated water. Therefore, the additional requirements associated with tourism must be met fully with desalinated water, which results in an increased cost of water management for the region. This paper also points at water losses in distribution networks and tourism seasonality as two phenomena that aggravate this issue.

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Daniel María González Pérez; José María Martín Martín; José Manuel Guaita Martínez; Francisco Javier Sáez-Fernández. An Analysis of the Cost of Water Supply Linked to the Tourism Industry. An Application to the Case of the Island of Ibiza in Spain. Water 2020, 12, 2006 .

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Daniel María González Pérez, José María Martín Martín, José Manuel Guaita Martínez, Francisco Javier Sáez-Fernández. An Analysis of the Cost of Water Supply Linked to the Tourism Industry. An Application to the Case of the Island of Ibiza in Spain. Water. 2020; 12 (7):2006.

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Daniel María González Pérez; José María Martín Martín; José Manuel Guaita Martínez; Francisco Javier Sáez-Fernández. 2020. "An Analysis of the Cost of Water Supply Linked to the Tourism Industry. An Application to the Case of the Island of Ibiza in Spain." Water 12, no. 7: 2006.

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Published: 25 April 2020 in Sustainability
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Tourism seasonality generates negative environmental and economic impacts. This paper analyzes the effects of seasonality on the efficiency of the hotel industry in the Balearic Islands (Spain). To that end, a sample of hotel establishments is divided into two groups (those that close down during the off-season and those that do not). Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is applied to assess the radial efficiency of each of the selected hotels; then, directional distance functions (DDFs) are used to measure the degree of efficiency with which these hotels use each of the inputs that form part of their production process. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that the said technique has been applied to the hospitality industry to examine the effects of seasonality. The results of this study suggest that those establishments that do not close down their operations are markedly more efficient than the ones that do. Moreover, they are more efficient in the use of each input. Therefore, a reduction in the levels of tourism seasonality would improve the economic sustainability of the hotels and reduce the environmental pressure at peak times. Finally, in line with the theoretical hypotheses formulated, the results regarding the specific efficiency levels for each input show that the greater the degree of flexibility with which these inputs are used, the higher the efficiency.

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Francisco Javier Sáez-Fernández; Ignacio Jiménez-Hernández; María Del Sol Ostos-Rey. Seasonality and Efficiency of the Hotel Industry in the Balearic Islands: Implications for Economic and Environmental Sustainability. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3506 .

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Francisco Javier Sáez-Fernández, Ignacio Jiménez-Hernández, María Del Sol Ostos-Rey. Seasonality and Efficiency of the Hotel Industry in the Balearic Islands: Implications for Economic and Environmental Sustainability. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (9):3506.

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Francisco Javier Sáez-Fernández; Ignacio Jiménez-Hernández; María Del Sol Ostos-Rey. 2020. "Seasonality and Efficiency of the Hotel Industry in the Balearic Islands: Implications for Economic and Environmental Sustainability." Sustainability 12, no. 9: 3506.