Competitiveness and performance measurements for outdoor hospitality park businesses: focusing on resource and capability strategies
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This doctoral thesis studies competitiveness and performance as complementary but distinct elements in strategic management. From the point of view of the literature review in hospitality management, this research shows that camping businesses have been poorly analyzed. Thus, the challenge of this research is to remove this lack of investigation by a set of three complementary academic contributions in order to shed light on the particularities of the camping businesses, otherwise known as the outdoor hospitality sector. In this perspective, this research proposes strategic analysis models adapted to the particularities of the sector.
From a contextual point of view, this research focuses on a growing phenomenon, the hyper-competition in the camping sector. Academic research has revealed the race to the lodging amenities and recreational facilities of a large number of camping businesses. This intensive mutation refers to the transformation of a nature-based camping business into an outdoor hospitality business. This research is innovative since hospitality management research has never made a distinction between the terminologies of camping and outdoor hospitality businesses. In this context, studying the boundaries between what constitutes a camping park and an outdoor hospitality park is an important issue in order to better distinguish the economic behavior of these businesses. Thus, this research explores how independent and municipal camping organizations are involved in a resource-intensive strategy (lodging and recreational resources) and how they develop their economic activities. In doing so, the field of research concerns independent and municipal camping businesses and the focus of the research is on competitiveness and performance measurements
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