1st Edition

Entrepreneurship in the Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Industries

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Entrepreneurship is the engine that drives any successful industry or economy. In the rapidly evolving hospitality, tourism and leisure sector worldwide this is particularly true. This new text is designed to develop a greater understanding of the process and context for entrepreneurship as well as to provide key concepts which will enable the reader to become more entrepreneurial themselves.... Read more
The process of entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurs; Corporate entrepreneurship; Environment for enterprise; Finance, business planning and entrepreneurship; Operations and management of entrepreneurial organizations; Marketing and entrepreneurship; Strategy and entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship, an overview.

Biography

Alison Morrison, Mike Rimmington, Claire Williams

'A key characteristic of an entrepreneur is a willingness to learn from others. The readers of this book will have that opportunity and, as a result, be well armed to go into the business world.'
from the foreword by Rocco Forte

'Great contribution to the literature in an area which deserves much more attention'
Dr D Buhalis, Senior Lecturer in Tourism, University of Westminster