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„The monograph deals with the technical efficiency of tourist farms in Slovenia, which the authors assessed using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Data Envelope Analysis (DEA) methods.

Thus, based on six inputs and four outputs, six different models were developed to evaluate the efficiency of tourist farms. Using the DEA method, the authors first developed input- and outputoriented BCC and CCR models, followed by the AHP method, first a model that included the same criteria as DEA models, and in the second AHP model they included additional, non-numerical, criteria, with by which the authors upgraded the DEA method. The main conclusions reached by the authors through the research process are that there are possible improvements at all levels of efficiency, as well as on the criteria of the additional offer of tourist farms, which were analyzed in the AHP model with additional criteria. They also note that according to the estimated efficiency, the ranking of tourist farms differed according to the two methods. One of the key findings of the monograph is that within the group of farms that were assessed as efficient by DEA, the AHP model enabled a more accurate ranking of them.

Despite the growing importance of tourist farms for the economic development of rural areas and for the very existence of farms, the field of research into the effectiveness of tourist farms is insufficiently researched. This kind of methodological approach has not yet been used in Slovenia, which can represent an opportunity to consider technical efficiency in other areas of tourism and beyond.

The contribution or the originality of the monograph mainly refers to the inclusion of additional nonnumerical criteria in the analysis of the efficiency of tourist farms through multi-criteria analysis and thus the upgrading of the DEA method with the AHP method.“

Prof. dr. Ivo…

Schlagworte

Urlaub auf dem Bauernhof, Tourismus, Effizienz, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Ländliche Entwicklung, Tourismuswissenschaft, Agrarwissenschaft

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