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Tourism and entrepreneurship : international perspective / edited by Jovo Ateljevic and Stephen J. Page

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amsterdam : Elsevier Science, c2009Description: xx, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780750686358
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • G 155.A1 .T68 2009
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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