Localização de Hotéis: uma análise sobre a produção científica internacional

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyse the international academic production on hotel location, the used methodology and variables, as well as the results obtained by the presented papers, and to search for similarities among those studies. To pursue this objective, a survey of the scientific production on this issue was accomplished in two internet portals of international magazines from 1999 to Jun 2009. The methodological procedure is based in exploratory proceeding and intentional sampling and quantitative approach of data collected through the key-words hotel location. The analysis has verified that little was produced focusing this specific issue, and that in most of the works secondary data is used as research base, and methodologies varied as are the objects of study.