The informal hoteleria and tourism competitiveness of Cartagena City
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https://doi.org/10.22519/22157360.874Abstract
The objective of this article is to determine the incidence of the informal hotel business in the tourist sector of the city of Cartagena, by means of the quantitative analysis and qualitative of data, with the purpose of to establish the relation of this activity with the competitiveness of the tourist service offered by the city. The informal hotel business constitutes those natural or legal people, who under the modality of a lodging contract rent or sublease per periods inferiors to thirty days. At the moment the hotelkeepers are themselves threatened by the appearance of the informal hotel business. But the informality is not exclusive of the link lodging, the informal sector is present in different links from the tourist chain. Making an analysis of the main problems of the tourism in Cartagena the informal hotel business has little incidence in the low competitiveness of the tourism in the city. The low competitiveness is ligature a: problems of quality and service, the little promotion and trade and the infrastructure problems, and finally, the faults in the public management.
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