Hotel Chain’s Strategic Options to Penetrate the Romanian Market

The European hotel industry is dominated by small companies that own and operate a hotel. The rest of the market contains hotel chains. Most of the international hotel chains realized the potential of the market and that is why they intend to increase the number of hotels opened in Romania, but for...

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Main Authors: Smaranda Cosma, Cristina Fleseriu, Marius Bota
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Language:English
Published: Editura ASE 2014-11-01
Series:Amfiteatru Economic
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Online Access:http://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/ArticolEN.aspx?CodArticol=1361
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description The European hotel industry is dominated by small companies that own and operate a hotel. The rest of the market contains hotel chains. Most of the international hotel chains realized the potential of the market and that is why they intend to increase the number of hotels opened in Romania, but for the moment, only 3.5% belong to international hotel chains. The objectives of the study are identifying the level of attractiveness of Romania for international hotel chains, establishing the options of penetration chosen by them and the main influence factors upon the penetration on the market. The decision made by a hotel company to carry out its activity in a foreign country and the penetration strategy into the market can be motivated by many reasons. The study revealed that Romania ranks 24 out of 27 in terms of the opportunities of American international hotel chain that wants to enter the market. Analysing the 20 international hotel chains present on the Romanian market was found that the preferred penetration strategy is contract management. Research has indicated that the country of origin of the international hotel chain, chain size, the number of hotel stars belonging to a chain and the hotel establishment year has a statistically significant influence upon the strategy used to penetrate Romanian hotel market.
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spelling doaj-art-e83a9d038cdb48948d1651cee44537c42025-08-20T02:22:15ZengEditura ASEAmfiteatru Economic1582-91462247-91042014-11-0116Special Issue 813521365Hotel Chain’s Strategic Options to Penetrate the Romanian MarketSmaranda Cosma0Cristina Fleseriu 1Marius Bota 2Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaBabeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaBabeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaThe European hotel industry is dominated by small companies that own and operate a hotel. The rest of the market contains hotel chains. Most of the international hotel chains realized the potential of the market and that is why they intend to increase the number of hotels opened in Romania, but for the moment, only 3.5% belong to international hotel chains. The objectives of the study are identifying the level of attractiveness of Romania for international hotel chains, establishing the options of penetration chosen by them and the main influence factors upon the penetration on the market. The decision made by a hotel company to carry out its activity in a foreign country and the penetration strategy into the market can be motivated by many reasons. The study revealed that Romania ranks 24 out of 27 in terms of the opportunities of American international hotel chain that wants to enter the market. Analysing the 20 international hotel chains present on the Romanian market was found that the preferred penetration strategy is contract management. Research has indicated that the country of origin of the international hotel chain, chain size, the number of hotel stars belonging to a chain and the hotel establishment year has a statistically significant influence upon the strategy used to penetrate Romanian hotel market.http://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/ArticolEN.aspx?CodArticol=1361strategic options to penetrate the marketinternational hotel chainshotel marketcultural distance
spellingShingle Smaranda Cosma
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strategic options to penetrate the market
international hotel chains
hotel market
cultural distance
title Hotel Chain’s Strategic Options to Penetrate the Romanian Market
title_full Hotel Chain’s Strategic Options to Penetrate the Romanian Market
title_fullStr Hotel Chain’s Strategic Options to Penetrate the Romanian Market
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title_short Hotel Chain’s Strategic Options to Penetrate the Romanian Market
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international hotel chains
hotel market
cultural distance
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