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 |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | United Kingdom : Emerald, 2015. |
| Description | xxvi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | ebook version 9781783508068 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018420174 |
| ISBN | 1783508116 |
| ISBN | 9781783508112 |