Exploring Sustainable-Oriented Innovation within Micro and Small Tourism Firms

Bressan, Alessandro; Pedrini, Matteo

doi:10.1080/21568316.2019.1673810

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“…Bressan and Pedrini [54] examined sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI) practices among micro and small firms operating in the tourism and hospitality sectors. The research findings indicate that there are different forms of SOI practice implementation through owners/managers/entrepreneurs in their day-to-day lifestyle motivation in conducting business, leading to the implementation of a set of specific technologies (water softeners to reduce laundry water usage, rainwater collection systems to reduce the environmental impact of guests, composting of organic waste and waste management practices based on the recycle/reuse approach.…”

Section: Innovation In Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism towards Sustainability and Innovation: A Systematic Literature Review

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In this paper, we analyze the progress of tourism towards sustainability and innovation through a systematic literature review summarizing the last five years of research strictly focused on innovation and sustainability applied to tourism. This research comprises a range of theories, practices, methods, and results pursuing innovation and sustainability across different levels, stages, and drivers, and in many tourism contexts. Wide, in-depth, and structured analysis, evaluation, and examination (using the PRISMA and VOSviewer tools) of a final sample of 50 scholarly papers from 27 journals, published between 2017 and the first quarter of 2021, were undertaken. Current publications emphasize qualitative, quantitative, and mixed research methods, as well as statistical and econometric methods, such as descriptive statistics, factor analysis, and structural equation modeling. This study categorizes the four major topics identified, sustainability, innovation, sustainable development, and sustainable tourism, which comprised the contextual dimensions and relevant stages of the subject areas examined. This systematic literature review highlights advances and the significantly increasing overall number of papers over recent years. Currently, sustainability is in a more advanced state compared to innovation. The outcomes highlight that the indicators of sustainability and innovation still need further analysis within the tourism context. However, more concrete process indicators are needed for continuous improvement of the front-end of innovation and sustainable tourism. The results help in better understanding the sustainability and innovation process as applied to tourism. In particular, this study explores further direct linkages between sustainability and innovation and tourism, discussing and providing new future directions aligned with the closing remarks as well as a strategic agenda for future action post-COVID-19.

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Section: Innovation In Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism towards Sustainability and Innovation: A Systematic Literature Review

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“…Appeals for rationalisation not only had limited cultural significance but also isolated individuals from the project of sustainable consumption. Bressan and Pedrini (2019) presented a slightly different point of view with respect to entities in the economic environment, i.e. owners/managers of tourism enterprises.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Responsible consumer and lifestyle: Sustainability insights

Lubowiecki-Vikuk

Dąbrowska

Machnik

2021

Sustainable Production and Consumption

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Environmental changes resulting from human activity and the negative impact of civilisational megatrends are being noticed and criticised increasingly often, and their consequences are becoming extremely severe. If people do not change their habits, changes in our ecosystems will become irreversible and it will be impossible to live in such environment. Thus, the aim of the paper is to review the lifestyles of responsible consumers against the background of the sustainable development paradigm. To engage in the debate as to how a sustainable lifestyle can be operationalized, we conducted a traditional, narrative literature review. Apart from revising the theoretical framework of a sustainable lifestyle, we describe selected lifestyles (such as lifestyle of health and sustainability, wellness, hygge, lagom , slow living, smart living, low-carbon lifestyles) and consumer behaviour patterns (fair trade, values and lifestyle segmentation). Each of these lifestyles relates to a broader or narrower extent to sustainable development, but none of the lifestyles is universal. Conscious and responsible consumer behaviour requires a long-term process and to a large extent depends on individual, political and marketing factors. Finally, we made an evaluation of the research used, pointing out challenges to be implemented, which will contribute to the development, enhancement and prominence of a sustainable lifestyle.

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“…Our informants' pro-sustainability behaviours and plans appear to have a strong community and ecological ethic (see Ateljevic & Doorne, 2000;Bressan & Pedrini, 2019), even though they do not seem to reflect deeply on the connection between social and environmental values when talking to them about the nature of sustainability. Frida and Lasse are the exception.…”

Section: Human Capital: Rich Cultural Capital Vs Poor Social Capitalmentioning

confidence: 92%

Human capital and sustainability challenges for Airbnb Bed and Breakfast lifestyle entrepreneurs

Griggio

Oxenswärdh

2021

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

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The Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea is a well-known tourist destination, visited annually by almost 2 million tourists. Among the different types of accommodation available to visitors, Bed and Breakfast (B&B) on the Airbnb platform have become very popular. This exploratory study discusses how the human capital of some B&B lifestyle entrepreneurs affects their plans and practices of sustainability. Human capital theory (Becker, G. (1964). Human Capital. The University of Chicago Press.) is discussed by intersecting it with a sociological perspective represented by the two main Bordieuan forms of capital, namely cultural and social capital (1986 and 1992). The research is based on data collected between June 2017 and October 2020 through semi-structured interviews and field observation of fourteen rural B&B lifestyle entrepreneurs listed on Airbnb. Results show that participants' cultural capital is high and constantly developing through the acquisition of new knowledge on sustainable measures that can be applied to their businesses. Their current social capital in Gotland, on the other hand, is still quite underdeveloped.

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Exploring Sustainable-Oriented Innovation within Micro and Small Tourism Firms

Cited by 35 publications

References 48 publications

Tourism towards Sustainability and Innovation: A Systematic Literature Review

Tourism towards Sustainability and Innovation: A Systematic Literature Review

Responsible consumer and lifestyle: Sustainability insights

Human capital and sustainability challenges for Airbnb Bed and Breakfast lifestyle entrepreneurs

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