1st Edition

Tourism and Entrepreneurship

Edited By Jovo Ateljevic, Stephen J. Page Copyright 2009
478 Pages
by Routledge

480 Pages
by Routledge

480 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Tourism Entrepreneurship – Concepts and Issues  3. Introduction and Overview to the Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurial Process  4. Sustaining Creative Entrepreneurship in Tourism – The Role of Innovation Systems  5. Women Empowerment Entrepreneurship Nexus in Tourism: Processes of Social Innovation  6. Entrepreneurs, Institutions and Institutional Entrepreneurship: New Light through Old Windows?  7. Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Tourism: Public Sector Experiences of Innovation Activity in Tourism in Scandinavia and Scotland  8. Entrepreneurial Crafts and the Tourism Industry  9. Tourism Entrepreneurship and Regional Development: Example from New Zealand  10. Entrepreneurial Wildlife Exploitation in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Overview  11. Bridging the Global-Local Divide: Lessons from Indigenous Entrepreneurship on Vatulele Island, Fiji  12. Building Institutional, Economic and Social Capacities: The Role of NGOs in the Context of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia  13. The Public Policy Context of Tourism Entrepreneurship  14. A Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Tourism Development  15. Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), Entrepreneurship And SMTEs  16. Access to Finance: Delivery Structures and the Problems Faced by Micro & Small Tourism Entrepreneurs  17. Tourism Distribution: From Structure to Strategy Douglas G. Pearce  18. Understanding and Influencing the Entrepreneurial Intentions of Tourism Students  19. Tourism in Wartime Britain 1914-1918: Adaptation, Innovation and the Role of Thomas Cook & Sons

Biography

Jovo Ateljevic, Stephen J. Page