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International Perspectives
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By
Rhodri Thomas, Centre for the Study of Small Tourism and Hospitality Firms, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
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Advances in Tourism Research,
Description
This book provides a varied collection of recent research relating to small businesses in tourism. In doing so it reflects the eclecticism
of interest and method associated with this under-researched and under-theorised area of investigation. Topics range from the potential
contribution of small firms to achieving social or economic goals to understanding more about business performance and growth. As is
common in tourism research, disciplinary boundaries are routinely transgressed in the interests of gaining greater illumination. Insights
from a variety of countries are offered, sometimes as a result of trans-national collaboration initiated specifically for this book.
Audience
For those engaged in tourism research relating to small businesses, public policy and community development. It will also be of interest
to final year undergraduate and postgraduate students of tourism, and those studying small businesses more generally. Reflective policy-makers
will also find much of interest.
Contents
International perspectives on small firms in tourism: a synthesis (R. Thomas). Tourism, small firm development and empowerment in post-apartheid
South Africa (C.M. Rogerson). Factors affecting small firms in tourism: a Ghanaian perspective (W.C. Gartner). Government assistance
for tourism SMEs; from theory to practice (S. Wanhill). Short-run output and employment effects arising from assistance to tourism SMEs:
evidence from Israel (A. Fleischer, D. Felsenstein). Risky lifestyles? Entrepreneurial characteristics of the New Zealand bed and breakfast
sector (C.M. Hall, K. Rusher). From lifestyle consumption to lifestyle production: changing patterns of tourism entrepreneurship (G.
Shaw, A.M. Williams). Success and growth in rural tourism micro-businesses in Finland: financial or life-style objectives? (R. Komppula).
The interaction of community and small tourism businesses in rural New Zealand (D. Keen). Whale watching: the roles of small firms in
the evolution of a new Australian niche market (N. Scott, E. Laws). Small firms and wine and food tourism in New Zealand: issues of collaboration,
clusters and lifestyles (C.M Hall). Quality homes, quality people: the challenge of quality grading and assurance in small accommodation
enterprises (P.A. Lynch, H. Tucker). Overcoming the green gap: improving the environmental performance of small tourism firms in Western
Australia (M. Schaper, J. Carlsen). Small firms and the principles of sustainable tourism: the case of cycle tourism (N.D. Morpeth).
Accommodating the spiritual tourist; the case of religious retreat houses (M. Shackley). Small firm performance in the context of agent
and structure: a cross-cultural comparison in the tourist accommodation sector (A. Morrison, R.M. Teixeira). Coping with resource scarcity:
the experience of UK tourism SMEs (M.M. Augustyn). Strategic and structural variables in internationalisation: the case of Swiss tourism
SMEs (A. Mungall, C. Johnson)
Small tourism firms in e-Europe: definitional, conceptual and contextual considerations (H. Matlay).
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 336 pages, publication date: DEC-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-08-044132-0
ISBN-10: 0-08-044132-7
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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