Collaboration in tourism businesses and destinations a handbook / edited by Dogan Gursoy, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, Melville Saayman, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, Marios Sotiriadis, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.

Other author Gursoy, Dogan.
Other author Saayman, M.
Other author Sotiriadis, Marios.
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoUnited Kingdom : Emerald, 2015.
Descriptionxxvi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Contents General context and tourism business environment : the contribution of alliances in a globalized context / Salvador Gómez Nieves and Ana Cecilia Reyes Uribe -- Business cooperation and partnershjip : a case of cocreation at destination level / Marta Magadán and Jesús Rivas -- Partnerships and alliances in tourism : aims and functions / Ige Pirnar -- Collaborative policy making : a community-based perspective in the context of Sardinia's Maddalena Archipelago, Italy / Giocomo Del Chiappa and Marcello Atzeni -- Strategic alliances in the hospitality industry as an expansion strategy : an Indian perspective / Saurabh Kumar Dixit and Marios Sotiriadis -- Airline alliances : traditional carriers versus low cost carriers? / Eleftherios D. Katarelos -- Hotel industry : forming a strategic alliance with tourism service providers / J.A. Snyman -- Strategic collaboration with volunteers in events : partnering for success / Fleur Fallon -- Economic recession as a catalyst to increased collaboration in rural tourism / Catherine Gorman and Ziene Mottiar
Contents Are partnerships necessary in culinary tourism? / Leticia Estévez -- Business networks and opportunities in ecotourism : the case of the Kruger National Park / Melville Saayman -- Collaboration and partnerships in practice : the Ceative Tourism Network®/ Caroline Couret -- Challenges of collaborative partnership in developing a sustainable nature-based tourism in Langkawi / Azilah Kasim and Hisham Dzakiria -- Tourism E-mediaries : business models and relationships with providers of tourism services / Marios Sotiriadis, Carmen Loedolff and Christos Sarmaniotis -- Collaboration in tourism e-commerce and evaluation metrics / Constantine Aivalis -- Negotiating partnerships and strategic alliances : a call to educators / John C. Crotts -- Governance of partnerships and alliances in tourism businesses and destinations / Sylvain Zeghni -- Potential contribution of collaborative forms in tourism innovation : a focus on tourism cluster / Nathalie Fabry -- Motivators and inhibitors of implementing sustainable hospitality supply chain management / Xun Xu and Dogan Gursoy -- Conclusions: Issues and challenges for collaborative forms in tourism businesses and destinations / Marios Sotiriadis, Dogan Gursoy and Melville Saayman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018420174
ISBN1783508116
ISBN9781783508112