Small Firms in Tourism

This book provides a varied collection of recent research relating to small businesses in tourism. In doing so it reflects the eclecticism of interest and method associated with this under-researched and under-theorised area of investigation. Topics range from the potential contribution of small firms to achieving social or economic goals to understanding more about business performance and growth. As is common in tourism research, disciplinary boundaries are routinely transgressed in the interests of gaining greater illumination. Insights from a variety of countries are offered, sometimes as a result of trans-national collaboration initiated specifically for this book.

RHODRI THOMAS

Chapter 1 International Perspectives on Small Firms in Tourism: A Synthesis, Rhodri Thomas; Chapter 2 Tourism, Small Firm Development and Empowerment in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Christian M. Rogerson; Chapter 3 Factors Affecting Small Firms in Tourism: A Ghanaian Perspective, William C. Gartner; Chapter 4 Government Assistance for Tourism SMEs: From Theory to Practice, Stephen Wanhill; Chapter 5 Short-Run Output and Employment Effects Arising from Assistance to Tourism SMEs: Evidence from Israel, Aliza Fleischer, Daniel Felsenstein; Chapter 6 Risky Lifestyles? Entrepreneurial Characteristics of the New Zealand Bed and Breakfast Sector, C. Michael Hall, Kristy Rusher; Chapter 7 From Lifestyle Consumption to Lifestyle Production: Changing Patterns of Tourism Entrepreneurship, Gareth Shaw, Allan M. Williams; Chapter 8 Success and Growth in Rural Tourism Micro-Businesses in Finland: Financial or Life-Style Objectives?, Raija Komppula; Chapter 9 The Interaction of Community and Small Tourism Businesses in Rural New Zealand, Donna Keen; Chapter 10 Whale Watching - The Roles of Small Firms in the Evolution of a New Australian Niche Market, Noel Scott, Eric Laws; Chapter 11 Small Firms and Wine and Food Tourism in New Zealand: Issues of Collaboration, Clusters and Lifestyles, C. Michael Hall; Chapter 12 Quality Homes, Quality People: The Challenge of Quality Grading and Assurance in Small Accommodation Enterprises, Paul A. Lynch, Hazel Tucker; Chapter 13 Overcoming the Green Gap: Improving the Environmental Performance of Small Tourism Firms in Western Australia, Michael Schaper, Jack Carlsen; Chapter 14 Small Firms and the Principles of Sustainable Tourism: The Case of Cycle Tourism, Nigel D. Morpeth; Chapter 15 Accommodating the Spiritual Tourist: The Case of Religious Retreat Houses, Myra Shackley; Chapter 16 Small Firm Performance in the Context of Agent and Structure: A Cross Cultural Comparison in the Tourist Accommodation Sector, Alison Morrison, Rivanda Meira Teixeira; Chapter 17 Coping with Resource Scarcity: The Experience of U.K. Tourism SMEs, Marcjanna M. Augustyn; Chapter 18 Strategic and Structural Variables in Internationalization: The Case of Swiss Tourism SMEs, Andrew Mungall, Colin Johnson; Chapter 19 Small Tourism Firms in e-Europe: Definitional, Conceptual and Contextual Considerations, Harry Matlay;