Tourism microentrepreneurship

Tourism microentrepreneurship is defined as the process of launching a new, or adding value to an existing, enterprise with no more than five employees, providing tourism experiences, food, lodging or transportation, with the aim to support the owner's livelihood and desired lifestyle. Volume 1...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Morais, Duarte B. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
SeriesBridging tourism theory and practice.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781838674656
DOI10.1108/S2042-1443202112
Physical Description1 online resource (232 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Hence tourism microentrepreneurship / Duarte B. Morais
  • Part I. Understanding tourism microentrepreneurs
  • Chapter 1. Opportunities and challenges at the margins of seaborne tourism / Deserie Avila and Michael J. Pisani
  • Chapter 2. Microentrepreneurial motivations and perceived benefits in laos / Scott A. Hipsher
  • Chapter 3. Tourism microentrepreneurship in family farms / Victoria Patterson, Duarte B. Morais, and Bruno S. Ferreira
  • Chapter 4. Gender and benefit-sharing in indigenous tourism microentrepreneurship / Alexander Trupp, Ilisapeci Matalolu, and Apisalome Movono
  • Part II. Microentrepreneurial knowledge
  • Chapter 5. Local knowledge in tourism microentrepreneurship / Kathleen M. Adams and Dirk Sandarupa
  • Chapter 6. Creative tourism microentrepreneurs in portugal / Fiona Eva Bakas, Nancy Duxbury, and Sara Albino
  • Chapter 7. ICT innovation diffusion by tourism microentrepreneurs / Yasong (Alex) Wang
  • Chapter 8. Reactions to the sharing economy by tourism stakeholders / Hessam Sarooghi and Seyedeh Elahe Adel Rastkhiz
  • Part III. Integrated destination stewardship
  • Chapter 9. Place-based rural tourism microentrepreneurship in vojvodina / Jovana Cikic and Tamara Jovanovic
  • Chapter 10. Cultural representation by local food microenterprises / Robert Bowen
  • Chapter 11. A destination's embrace of tourism microentrepreneurship / Jonathan Freeze
  • Chapter 12. Conceptualizing permatourism / Bruno S. Ferreira, Duarte B. Morais, Gene L. Brothers, Craig Brookins, and Susan Jakes
  • Conclusion: Principled engagement with tourism microentrepreneurs / Duarte B. Morais.