The Tourism Entrepreneur

Koh, Khoon Y.; Hatten, Timothy S.

doi:10.1300/j149v03n01_02

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“…Furthermore, there was a tendency towards imitating rather than innovating products and services (also noted by Koh and Hatten, 2002) even when opportunities arose. These initial observations partly concur with prior research that found tourism entrepreneurs were more inclined to reject growth and profit models over models that fulfilled a lifestyle or nonfinancial need (DeBerry-Spence and Elliot, 2012;Jaafar et al, 2011).…”

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“…Tourism entrepreneurship has been broadly defined by a range of factors related to individuals' motivation, economic status, background, social circumstances, personality characteristics and traits (Morrison, 2006;Jaafar et al, 2011). Research examines a variety of personal, sociological and environmental factors associated with individual entrepreneurs and this suggests significant heterogeneity (Bjerke, 2000) between different tourism sectors (Koh and Hatten, 2002). Heterogeneity is also observed between local and in-migrant entrepreneurs (Dana et al 2014) and between developed countries and LDCs.…”

Section: The Entrepreneurial Process In Tourismmentioning

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“…This has led to the dominance of small and medium sized tourism enterprises with many being linked to the informal sector (Jaafar et al 2011;Scheyvens, 2006;Mograbi and Rogerson, 2007) and in some cases, choose to imitate rather than innovate (Koh and Hatten, 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Dive tourism and the entrepreneurial process in the Perhentian Islands, Malaysia.

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Hampton²

2016

Sustainable Island Tourism: Competitiveness and Quality of Life

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This chapter explores the question of how the dive tourism entrepreneurial process in the Perhentian islands transforms (or not) as the destination moves to a strategically competitive one. It takes a holistic approach by considering the personal (characteristics, traits and socio-economic factors), environmental (business opportunities, resources and threats) and sociological factors (cultural norms, social networks, family) to understand how they interact with each other, with each stage of the process, and what the practical implications are.

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Dive tourism and the entrepreneurial process in the Perhentian Islands, Malaysia.

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“…Identifying the distinguishing characteristics of T-SMEs and their owner-managers, a topic of interest in tourism literature (Heilbrunn, Rozenes, and Vitner, 2011;Koh and Hatten, 2002;Thomas et al, 2011), could help in understanding the motivations of T-SME owner-managers (Haber and Reichel, 2007;Thomas et al, 2011). Therefore, while T-SME founders or owner-managers are complex individuals with varied goals and purposes (Getz et al, 2004), it is both important and possible to characterize them based on a limited set of criteria.…”

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“…Many authors (Getz et al, 2004;Koh and Hatten, 2002;Li, 2008;Thomas et al, 2011) argue that tourism start-ups are different from non-tourism enterprises because "most touristic offerings are intangible: tourism entrepreneurs, therefore, experience greater difficulty in testing their offerings before launch (concept testing versus product testing)" (Koh and Hatten, 2002, p. 32). Additionally, they have "higher service content" than goods-selling companies.…”

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Canadian SMES in the Tourism Sector: A Taxonomy of Owner-Managers

Ibanescu

Chirita

Keen

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T ourism is an important industry in terms of its direct and indirect contributions to GDP. This sector generated 9.8% of global GDP (World Travel and Tourism Council, 2016). With its growth of 2.8%, it has outpaced that of the global economy (2.3%) since 2010. Its economic development, significant social benefits and spillover effects has been highlighted by several authors (Chou, 2013; Kokkranikal and Morrison, 2011; Proenca and Soukiazis, 2008). In this sector, SMEs are the most common type of businesses (King, Breen and Whitelaw, 2014), but research on tourism SMEs (T-SMEs) is limited (Morrison, Carlsen, and Weber, 2010; Thomas, Shaw, and Page, 2011), and this is especially true for T-SME owner-managers in Canada (Getz, Carlsen, and Morrison, 2004). Tourism activities play an important role in the Canadian economy (Bédard-Maltais, 2015), account for approximately 9% of overall GDP and provide over 1.6 million (9.1%) of jobs in Canada (Statistics Canada, 2012). Currently, 99.9% of Canadian tourism businesses are SMEs, 98% of these have fewer than 100 employees (Bédard-Maltais, 2015). Quebec accounts for 25% of the T-SMEs. That said, there is still no common definition among federal and provincial agencies for a T-SME (Canadian Tourism Council, 2014). Even in the literature, there is a debate about the definitions of the T-SME (Morrison, Rimmington and Williams, 1999; Thomas et al., 2011). In this research, we use Pierce's (2011, p. 2) definition, i.e., an SME is "a business with fewer than 500 employees and less than $50 million in annual revenues." Tourism SMEs are businesses that meet above SME criteria and operate in the tourism industry (Accommodation, Transportation, Travel Services, Food and Beverage Services, Recreation and Entertainment)". SMEs' characteristics include the centralization of management decisions, a low level of labor specialization, and having an informal, implicit, even intuitive, short-term strategy (Julien, 1994 and 1998, Torrès, 2004a). T-SMEs are particularly influenced by the

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Tourism Entrepreneurship

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2024

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism

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The Tourism Entrepreneur

Cited by 120 publications

References 30 publications

Dive tourism and the entrepreneurial process in the Perhentian Islands, Malaysia.

Dive tourism and the entrepreneurial process in the Perhentian Islands, Malaysia.

Canadian SMES in the Tourism Sector: A Taxonomy of Owner-Managers

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