Overview
- Analyzes the competitive pathways and business models implemented in entrepreneurial tourism
- Offers diverse perspectives on tourism entrepreneurship using innovative benchmarks
- Presents results of entrepreneurial initiatives oriented to rural and sustainable tourism
Part of the book series: Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management (THEM)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This contributed volume introduces the innovative landscapes and business models used in tourism entrepreneurship initiatives of Portugal and Spain. It provides benchmarks for entrepreneurial initiatives covering tourism services, place-branded tourism, social networks, spiritual tourism, cross-border tourism initiatives, and tourism in low-density regions. It also provides guidelines for future strategic actions to foster rural and sustainable development in alternative tourism destinations, following the Iberian experience.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
João Leitão is an associate professor with habilitation, the director of the UBIExecutive, Business school at the University of Beira Interior (UBI) (Portugal), and a research fellow at the NECE Research Center in Business Sciences at UBI, and associate researcher at the ICS, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University of Lisbon. He is an external research fellow of the Center for Young and Family Enterprise (CYFE), Università Degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Beira Interior (UBI) and a habilitation in technological change and entrepreneurship from the University of Lisbon (Portugal). He is a prolific author and series editor of the Springer book series Studies in Entrepreneurship, Structural Change, and Industrial Dynamics. He is also a member of the editorial boards of several journals such as Sustainability ( MDPI), The International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing (Springer), Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais (APDR), Discover Sustainability (Springer), and International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing (Inderscience).
Vanessa Ratten is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at La Trobe University (Australia). She is the Program Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation subjects and teaches Corporate Venturing and Managing Innovation. She has published seven sole authored books including Sport Entrepreneurship: Developing and Sustaining an Entrepreneurial Sports Culture (Springer). She has also edited more than twenty books including Entrepreneurship and the Community: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Creativity, Social Challenges, and Business (Springer).
Vitor Braga is an Associate Professor at the School of Technology and Management of Felgueiras, Polytechnic Institute of Porto (Portugal). He is theDirector of the Business Sciences BSc, the Head of the business sciences department, and the Director of the MSc in International Management. His main research interests are in entrepreneurship processes such as co-operation, internationalization and innovation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tourism Entrepreneurship in Portugal and Spain
Book Subtitle: Competitive Landscapes and Innovative Business Models
Editors: João Leitão, Vanessa Ratten, Vitor Braga
Series Title: Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89232-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89231-9Published: 02 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89234-0Published: 03 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-89232-6Published: 01 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2510-4993
Series E-ISSN: 2510-5000
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 282
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations
Topics: Tourism Management, Entrepreneurship, Regional/Spatial Science