Synopses & Reviews
Tourism and Entrepreneurship: International Perspectives provides an innovative, interdisciplinary approach. This book takes as its central theme the role of entrepreneurship in the context of regional, local and national tourism development. By engaging with top academics in both tourism and entrepreneurship this book delivers a cohesive, interdisciplinary examination of the most recent developments in both tourism and entrepreneurship. Several key themes are explored and articulated through the following concepts and issues: tourism, innovation and entrepreneurship; the role and nature of individual and collective entrepreneurship in different contexts; the role of tourism in responding to development opportunities created by global forces; and finally, issues associated with tourism strategies and policies.Divided into four parts, the book reflects on the most relevant areas of tourism entrepreneurship: * Understanding the conceptual basis of tourism entrepreneurship* Creative use of entrepreneurship and processes of social innovation* Tourism entrepreneurship mediating the global-local divide* Sectoral strategies and policy issues of tourism entrepreneurshipTourism and Entrepreneurship: International Perspective: * Explains the impact of tourism entrepreneurship on places and overall regional and destination development* Examines the role of the public sector in facilitating the need for sustainable tourism development * Examines the effects and implications of funding schemes and support programmes * Takes the owner, manager and entrepreneur as the starting point of analysis to explore specific issues* Allows practitioners and policy-makers to explore practical applications and best practice of theory through a diverse range of international case studies * Contributed to by an international team of leading scholars in tourism and entrepreneurshipThis book is a unique combination of theory, case studies and discussion highlighting the importance of entrepreneurial tourism activity for economic success. It is essential reading for students and researchers in both tourism and entrepreneurship. *Provides an understanding and analysis of entrepreneurship within tourism in a format which students can access and use easily.*International contributor team with case studies to match - from Uganda and Serbia to Slovenia and Australasia. * Highlights major issues that can encourage, or impede, entrepreneurial activity within a tourism context - and how vital it can be to the economies of many countries and regions
Synopsis
Tourism development provides an avenue for overall economic development and a boost for local entrepreneurship activities. As a result, the encouragement of entrepreneurship and sustainable tourism development has emerged as core areas for policy support and donor-assisted funding across both developed and the developing world.
'Tourism and Entrepreneurship:international perspectives' provides an innovative, fresh approach reflecting on the most recent trends in tourism development. The central stage of the book is the role of entrepreneurship in the context of regional/local tourism development.
With contributions from key thinkers in the tourism and entrepreneurship area, it:
* explains the impact of tourism entrepreneurship on places and overall regional /destination development;
* examines the role of public sector in facilitating the need of sustainable tourism development;
* examines the effects and implications of funding schemes and support programmes beyond the immediate interest in the success or failure of the firm to encourage entrepreneurship;
*explores specific issues, from the perspective of the owner / manager / entrepreneur;
* contextualises developments in a tourism context against both their structural backdrop and against the dynamics of sustainable tourism development in other economic and cultural environments.
Main features include:
* Synthesis of tourism and entrepreneurship
* Institutional and collective entrepreneurship in tourism development
* Comprehensive analysis of tourism environment
* Integrated international case studies based on real-life firms and tourism developments, from Uganda and Serbia to Slovenia and Australasia.
*Provides an understanding and analysis of entrepreneurship within tourism in a format which students can access and use easily.
*International contributor team with case studies to match - from Uganda and Serbia to Slovenia and Australasia.
* Highlights major issues that can encourage, or impede, entrepreneurial activity within a tourism context - and how vital it can be to the economies of many countries and regions
About the Author
Stephen Page is the Scottish Enterprise Professor of Tourism Management at the University of Stirling. He has worked in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland and France and has written, edited or contributed to 20 leading books on tourism, a number of which have been sponsored by the tourism sector. He has worked with many private sector and public sector agencies on tourism consultancy in terms of tourism and leisure strategies, feasibility studies, problem-solving including high profile projects such as the Channel Tunnel and Auckland's Sky Tower in New Zealand. Most recently he has worked on Avian Influenza for Visit Scotland and the Scottish Executive and a number of leading tourism businesses and organisations. He is also an editor of the top Tourism journal, Tourism Management published by Elsevier and Series Editor of the Elsevier Advances in Tourism Research Series and is a regular contributor to industry conferences and meetings as a speaker on industry-related topics.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Tourism entrepreneurship - concepts and issues; Chapter 3: Introduction and overview to the entrepreneur and entrepreneurial process; Chapter 4: Sustaining creative entrepreneurship in tourism - the role of innovation systems; Chapter 5: Women Empowerment Entrepreneurship Nexus in Tourism: Processes of Social Innovation; Chapter 6: Entrepreneurs, Institutions and Institutional Entrepreneurship: New Light through Old Windows?; Chapter 7: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Tourism: Public Sector Experiences of Innovation Activity in Tourism in Scandinavia and Scotland; Chapter 8: Entrepreneurial Crafts and the Tourism Industry; Chapter 9: Tourism Entrepreneurship and Regional Development: Example from New Zealand; Chapter 10: Entrepreneurial wildlife exploitation in sub-Saharan Africa: an overview; Chapter 11: Bridging the Global-Local Divide: Lessons from Indigenous Entrepreneurship on Vatulele Island, Fiji; Chapter 12: Building Institutional, Economic and Social Capacities; The Role of NGOs in the Context of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia; Chapter 13: The Public Policy Context of Tourism Entrepreneurship; Chapter 14: A Multi-stakeholder Approach to tourism development; Chapter 15: Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), Entrepreneurship and SMTEs; Chapter 16: Access to Finance: Delivery structures and the Problems faced by Micro & Small Tourism Entrepreneurs; Chapter 17: Tourism Distribution: from structure to strategy Douglas G. Pearce; Chapter 18: Understanding and influencing the entrepreneurial intentions of tourism students; Chapter 19: Tourism in Wartime Britain 1914-1918: Adaptation, Innovation and the Role of Thomas Cook & Sons.