Handbook of Research on Innovation in Tourism Industries [electronic resource].

ISBN:

9781782548416

Title:

Author:

Alsos, G. A.

Personal Author:

Alsos, G. A.

Publication Information:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Series:

Elgar original reference

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction: innovation in tourism industries; PART I INNOVATION IN TOURISM; 2. The importance of systemic features for innovation orientation in tourism firms; 3. Disruptive and sustaining innovations: the case of rural tourism; 4. Towards a framework for studying gendering processes of innovation; PART II SOURCES OF INNOVATION; 5. Innovations, their knowledge sources and their effects in experience-based tourism; 6. Potentials for user-based innovation in tourism: the example of GPS tracking of attraction visitors

7. Facilitating for enhanced experience valuePART III INNOVATION IN THE FIRM; 8. The start-up processes of tourism firms: the use of causation and effectuation strategies; 9. The service innovation triangle: moving to an alternative business model; 10. Tourism and business model innovation: the case of US wine makers; 11. T ypes of innovation in tourism businesses: the case of New Zealand wine tourism; PART IV INNOVATION IN DESTINATIONS AND NETWORKS; 12. Organizational innovation: re-organizing destination marketing organizations

13. Innovation and climate change: the role of network relations and the attitudes of tourism actors on Svalbard14. Proximity of practice: student-practitioner collaboration in tourism; Index

Subject Term:

Hospitality industry.

Tourism -- Environmental aspects.

Tourism -- Social aspects.

Tourism.

Added Author:

Eide, D.

Madsen, E. L.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014.

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Summary

The tourism sector - already one of the fastest growing industries in the world - is currently undergoing extensive change thanks to strong market growth and a transition to more experience-based products. The capacity for firms to innovate and adapt to market developments is crucial to their success, but research-based knowledge on innovation strategies in tourism remains scarce. This pioneering Handbook offers timely, original research on innovation within the tourism industry from a number of interdisciplinary and global perspectives.

The expert contributors adapt theories and models drawn from the mainstream innovation literature and supplement them with analytical strategies specific to the tourism industry. Major themes include forms and sources of innovation in tourism, innovation processes at both firm and destination levels, and the ways in which innovation is defined and measured. Individual chapters cover specific issues such as gendering processes, user-based innovation, enhanced experience value, causation and effectuation strategies, and alternative business models.

Students, professors and researchers of innovation, entrepreneurship, and tourism studies will find this book an invaluable resource.

Contributors : B. Abelsen, G.A. Alsos, T. Baird, D.L. Brannon, M. Bratec, M. Bystrowska, T. Clausen, R. Cuthbertson, D. Eide, P.I. Furseth, S. Gyimóthy, C.M. Hall, A.-M. Hjalager, H. Hoarau, M.T. Jensen, D. Krizaj, T. Kvidal, A. Leenheer, G. Lien, E. Ljunggren, E.L. Madsen, N. Prebensen, C. Ren, M. Rønningen, J. Sundbo, F. Sørensen, K. Wigger, J. Wiklund

Author Notes

Edited by Gry Agnete Alsos, Professor, Nord University Business School, Dorthe Eide, Associate Professor, University of Nordland and Einar Lier Madsen, Research Director, Nordland Research Institute, Norway

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

This is a difficult book to categorize. It is essentially a collection of marketing improvement techniques designed to assist tourism professionals in recognizing, understanding, and adapting to perceived expectations among potential tourism consumers. Since it is widely recognized that, in a world with a rapidly growing affluent, mobile, and curious middle class, properly focused tourism will inevitably be an expanding component of the total economy, this book becomes, as its title implies, a valuable handbook for those participating in tourism's organization and promotion. Evidence suggests that the modern tourist, jaded perhaps by the usual round of museums, castles, and giant cruise liners to familiar destinations, rather is looking for--as several of the authors point out--enhanced experiences in diverse cultural, physical, and social settings. This is an underlying theme of many of the innovations considered. The specific examples of implementing these ideas are heavily drawn from Scandinavian work (21 of the 29 contributors are Norwegian or Danish) with only a slight consideration of the wine industry as a tourism draw in the US and New Zealand. Although the book will not resonate loudly with a general audience, it will be of considerable interest to professionals in the tourism industry. Summing Up: Recommended. Professionals and practitioners. J. R. McDonald emeritus, Eastern Michigan University