Land use conversion from tourist to residential |
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Authors: | Yolanda Santana-Jiménez Juan M Hernández Rafael Suárez-Vega |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Quantitative Methods in Economics, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, C/Saulo Torón sn, Campus de Tafira, Las Palmas de G.C. 35017, Spain;2. Department of Quantitative Methods in Economics, Institute of Tourism and Sustainable Development (TIDES), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, C/Saulo Torón sn, Campus de Tafira, Las Palmas de G.C., Spain |
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Abstract: | This work analyses the forces that drive the conversion of non-hotel tourist accommodation into residential use. For this purpose, a land use change model that considers spatial autocorrelation is proposed and applied to the tourist area of Maspalomas, in Gran Canaria, Spain, which has suffered an extraordinary process of residentialization in the last decade. The empirical model estimates the probability that a non-hotel accommodation resort (apartments/bungalows) located in this area closes its activity within a prefixed time period. Results show that the state of the neighbouring resorts influences on the probability of closure of the apartments/bungalows, as well as their specific typology and low quality. From these results, some recommendations are proposed about the strategies undertaken by the implied agents. |
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Keywords: | land use change model residential tourism non-hotel accommodation spatial Probit spillovers |
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