Tourism and entrepreneurship: international perspectives

Tourism development provides an avenue for overall economic development and aboost 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 thedeveloping world. "Tourism and Entrepreneurship: International Perspectives" provides an innovative, fresh approach reflecting on the most recent trends intourism 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 programs beyond the immediate interest in the success orfailure of the firm to encourage entrepreneurship; explores specific issues, from the perspective of the owner / manager / entrepreneur; and, contextualizes developments in a tourism context against both their structural backdrop andagainst the dynamics of sustainable tourism development in other economic andcultural environments. Main features include: Synthesis of tourism and entrepreneurship; Institutional and collective entrepreneurship in tourism development; Comprehensive analysis of tourism environment; and, Integrated international case studies based on real-life firms and tourism developments, from Ugandaand Serbia to Slovenia and Australasia. This book provides an understanding and analysis of entrepreneurship within tourism in a format which students can access and use easily. It features international contributor team with case studies to match - from Uganda and Serbia to Slovenia and Australasia. It 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.

• ISBN: 978-0-7506-8635-8
• Editorial: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 456
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés