Tourism and Entrepreneurship

Stephen Page is Senior Professor of Sustainable Tourism Management at London Metropolitan Business School. He has worked in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland and France and has written, edited or contributed to 33 leading books on tourism, a number of which have been sponsored by the tourism sector. He has worked with many private sector and public sector agencies on tourism consultancy in terms of tourism and leisure strategies, feasibility studies, problem-solving including high profile projects such as the Channel Tunnel and Auckland's Sky Tower in New Zealand. He is also an editor of the top Tourism journal, Tourism Management published by Elsevier and Series Editor of the Elsevier Advances in Tourism Research Series. He is a regular contributor to industry conferences and meetings as a speaker on industry-related topics and has been ranked as one of the top Tourism academics in the UK based on publications in the top three Tourism journals for the 5 year period 2003-2008. Jovo Ateljevic is Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Stirling Management School, University of Stirling, UK

Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Tourism entrepreneurship -- concepts and issues; Chapter 3: Introduction and overview to the entrepreneur and entrepreneurial process; Chapter 4: Sustaining creative entrepreneurship in tourism -- the role of innovation systems; Chapter 5: Women Empowerment Entrepreneurship Nexus in Tourism: Processes of Social Innovation; Chapter 6: Entrepreneurs, Institutions and Institutional Entrepreneurship: New Light through Old Windows?; Chapter 7: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Tourism: Public Sector Experiences of Innovation Activity in Tourism in Scandinavia and Scotland; Chapter 8: Entrepreneurial Crafts and the Tourism Industry; Chapter 9: Tourism Entrepreneurship and Regional Development: Example from New Zealand; Chapter 10: Entrepreneurial wildlife exploitation in sub-Saharan Africa: an overview; Chapter 11: Bridging the Global--Local Divide: Lessons from Indigenous Entrepreneurship on Vatulele Island, Fiji; Chapter 12: Building Institutional, Economic and Social Capacities; The Role of NGOs in the Context of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia; Chapter 13: The Public Policy Context of Tourism Entrepreneurship; Chapter 14: A Multi-stakeholder Approach to tourism development; Chapter 15: Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), Entrepreneurship and SMTEs; Chapter 16: Access to Finance: Delivery structures and the Problems faced by Micro & Small Tourism Entrepreneurs; Chapter 17: Tourism Distribution: from structure to strategy Douglas G. Pearce; Chapter 18: Understanding and influencing the entrepreneurial intentions of tourism students; Chapter 19: Tourism in Wartime Britain 1914-1918: Adaptation, Innovation and the Role of Thomas Cook & Sons