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Informationen zum Autor Jovo Ateljevic, Stephen J. Page Klappentext Tourism development provides an avenue for overall economic development and a boost 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 the developed and the developing world. 'Tourism and Entrepreneurship:international perspectives' provides an innovative, fresh approach reflecting on the most recent trends in tourism 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 effects and implications of funding schemes and support programmes that encourage ongoing entrepreneurship; * contextualises developments in a tourism context. Zusammenfassung Deals with the role of entrepreneurship in the context of regional, local and national tourism development. This book examines the role of the public sector in facilitating the need for sustainable tourism development. It also examines the effects and implications of funding schemes and support programmes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
