Document Type : Research Paper
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Tourism Research Institute, Iranian Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research (ACECR), Mashhad, Iran; Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
10.22059/ier.2024.361602.1007752
Abstract
Ecolodge, which allows visitors to stay in the community, are one of the services offered in rural tourism. This study aims to evaluate the efficiency of these units in the Iranian regions. The Ministry of Handicrafts, Cultural Heritage, and Tourism provided the necessary information, and the statistical population comprises Ecolodge units in 31 provinces. The study is done using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), with the model's inputs being the "number of Ecolodge units, number of beds," and the "number of visitors and income," respectively, for each province. According to the features of the research, envelope form (BCC), slack-based measurement (SBM), super efficiency (SE), and most productive scale size (MPSS) models have been utilized among the many efficiency estimate models. The findings indicate that four provinces—Tehran, Mazandaran, Golestan, Isfahan, Qom and Kordestan—have efficiency in Ecolodge units and thay have grade 1 in the efficiency calculations. whereas other provinces in the nation have inefficiency if we take into account the overlap of the results of all four models. and their efficiency grade is like this; the provinces of "East Azerbaijan (0.75), West Azerbaijan (0.68), Ardabil (0.79), Alborz (0.65), Ilam (0.77), Bushehr (0.68), Chaharmahal (0.62), South Khorasan (0.67), Razvi Khorasan (0.9), North Khorasan (0.73), Khozestan (0.95), Zanjan (0.87), Semnan (0.58), Sistan (0.67), Fars (0.83), Qazvin (0.89), Kerman (0.84), Kermanshah (0.7), Kokhluyeh (0.68), Gilan (0.88), Lorestan (0.9), Markazi (0.56), Hormozgan (0.8), Hamedan (0.7), and Yazd (0.64)". Suggestions have also been made to draw tourists and boost the efficiency of Ecolodge facilities.
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