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Tourism Entrepreneurship in Portugal and Spain

Competitive Landscapes and Innovative Business Models

  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. The Role of Tourism Entrepreneurship in the Iberian Peninsula

    • João Leitão, Vanessa Ratten, Vitor Braga, Roberto Antunes
    Pages 1-8
  3. Tourism Services Innovation Ecosystem: A Multicriteria Model Approach Based on Portuguese Higher Education

    • Ronnie Figueiredo, Raquel Reis Soares, Helder Gomes Costa
    Pages 9-26
  4. Tourist Experience in Rural Areas in Portugal: The Case of the “Quadrilátero Do Minho”

    • Hugo Machado, Laurentina Vareiro, Bruno Sousa, Raquel Mendes
    Pages 27-43
  5. Spirituality and Mindful Tourism: Experiencing Innovative Hispanic Cases

    • Raysa Geaquinto Rocha, Edgar Tarrés Falcó, João Leitão
    Pages 45-64
  6. The Presence of Rural Accommodation in Extremadura on Facebook: An Approach to Its Intensity of Use Through a Grouping Analysis

    • Juan Ignacio Rengifo Gallego, José Manuel Sánchez Martín, Marcelino Sánchez Rivero, Luz María Martín Delgado, María Cristina Rodríguez Rangel
    Pages 101-136
  7. Place-Linked Products and Creative Tourism in Iberian Regions

    • Celso Lopes, João Leitão, Juan Rengifo Gallego
    Pages 137-179
  8. Determinants of Profitability in the Tourism Sector in Portugal

    • Carlos Manuel Romão Travanca, Carlos Manuel Rodrigues Vieira, Elisabete Gomes Santana Félix
    Pages 193-215
  9. Good Practices Within the European Project Smart Rural

    • Antonio Martínez-Puche, Xavier Amat-Montesinos, Carlos Cortes Samper, Jose Antonio Larrosa Rocamora, Alberto Lorente Saiz, Samuel Ortiz Pérez et al.
    Pages 217-233
  10. Tourism Events: Bringing Innovation to the North of Portugal

    • Susana Silva, Cândida Silva, João Alves
    Pages 235-248
  11. Entrepreneurship Education in Portuguese Tourism: Fostering Ideation, Innovation and Initiative

    • Francisco Banha, André Rui Graça, Francisco Miguel Banha
    Pages 249-262
  12. Factors Affecting Portuguese and Spanish Hotel Guests’ Safety Perception Under COVID-19: Insights for the Development of Personalized Hotel Offers

    • Cristina Estevão, Paulo Duarte, Adília Cabral, Ana María Campón-Cerro, Uci Yuliati
    Pages 263-282

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

  • Department of Management and Economics, NECE - Research Center in Business Sciences, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

    João Leitão

  • Department of Management, Sport and Tourism, La Trobe Business School, La Trobe Univesity, Melbourne, Australia

    Vanessa Ratten

  • School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Felgueiras, Portugal

    Vitor Braga

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

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eBook USD 109.00
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Softcover Book USD 139.99
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Hardcover Book USD 139.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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