Supporting Small Firm Development in Tourism

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian M. Rogerson
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Small Firm ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Support Programmes ◽  
Tourism Economy ◽  
Micro Enterprises ◽  
Firm Development

The international experience points to few countries having designated support programmes that are specific to small tourism firms. In 2000 South Africa's Tourism Enterprise Programme (TEP) was launched, functioning as a dedicated support initiative to assist the development and upgrading of small tourism firms within the national tourism economy. This article analyses TEP's activities within the changed environment of post-apartheid tourism development, and highlights the evolution of its innovative operations for supporting tourism entrepreneurship and the upgrading of small, medium-sized and micro-enterprises (SMMEs) in South Africa's tourism economy. It is argued that TEP's activities might provide an example of ‘good practice’ for other developing countries.

Green Digital Enterprise and Chaos Theory in Tourism Development

2013 ◽  
pp. 232-246
Author(s):  
Ezendu Ariwa ◽  
Carsten Martin Syvertsen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Chaos Theory ◽  
Change Agent ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Digital Enterprise ◽  
Tourism Economy

This paper examines how eco-tourism can be regarded as a change agent in the tourism economy in developing countries. By using conceptual contributions from chaos theory, the authors illustrate how eco-tourism might give competitive advantage, using South Africa as the empirical setting. Destinations focusing on chaos theory when organizing their efforts within eco-tourism may be able to tailor make services to well-defined market segments through the use of tacit knowledge. Future research may benefit from using untraditional approaches found in the business literature.

Green Digital Enterprise and Chaos Theory in Tourism Development

2014 ◽  
pp. 1474-1488
Author(s):  
Ezendu Ariwa ◽  
Carsten Martin Syvertsen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Chaos Theory ◽  
Change Agent ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Digital Enterprise ◽  
Tourism Economy

This paper examines how eco-tourism can be regarded as a change agent in the tourism economy in developing countries. By using conceptual contributions from chaos theory, the authors illustrate how eco-tourism might give competitive advantage, using South Africa as the empirical setting. Destinations focusing on chaos theory when organizing their efforts within eco-tourism may be able to tailor make services to well-defined market segments through the use of tacit knowledge. Future research may benefit from using untraditional approaches found in the business literature.

Supporting Small and Medium Enterpries to Access Technological Innovation State Fund: International Experience and Lessons for Vietnam

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huong Vu Thanh ◽  
Thu Anh Nguyen ◽  
Mai Thi Thanh Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Advanced Technologies ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Developed Nations ◽  
State Fund

Technological innovation state funds supporting small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are not common in the developing countries like Vietnam, but are common in the developed nations like the European countries and Korea. The financial and non-financial support of these funds has contributed significantly to the development of many SMEs. Learning from the funds which have successfully facilitated SMEs in innovating and developing advanced technologies is meaningful to the Vietnamese sicence and techonology management bodies and state funds. This article will review the experience of some typical fund in supporting SMEs, thereby providing some lessons for technology innovation Funds of Vietnam to create a more favorable environment for SMEs to access funds.

scholarly journals Local Participation in Tourism Development—Roles of Non-Tourism Related Residents of the Alpine Destination Bad Reichenhall

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 6947 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Kantsperger ◽  
Hannes Thees ◽  
Christian Eckert
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Point ◽  
Local Participation ◽  
Important Target

This study applies an adapted approach of the traditional view on local participation in tourism development. First, the study mainly focuses on exploring the patterns behind participation instead of the reasons for participation. Second, a case is chosen that transcends the interest in researching participation in developing countries. Third, the study focuses on non-tourism related residents, an under-researched group of stakeholders. It is thus investigated how non-tourism related residents face the process of participation in tourism development and what the main barriers and drivers are in this regard. To discuss this issue, the study takes a closer look at the case of Bad Reichenhall, an Alpine Destination in Germany. 15 qualitative interviews are conducted with non-tourism related residents and further evaluated through a qualitative content analysis. The results underline that tourism represents a public domain that concerns all stakeholders of a destination. The typology derived throughout the study reflects the heterogeneity of non-tourism related residents, coming up with four types of non-tourism related residents facing participation in tourism development rather differently. Various barriers and drivers are revealed that impact non-tourism related residents from both a personal and general point of view. Non-tourism related residents turn out as a promising and important target group in the discourse of stakeholder participation in tourism development.

scholarly journals Tourism Ethnocentrism and Its Effects on Tourist and Resident Behavior

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Kock ◽  
Alexander Josiassen ◽  
A. George Assaf ◽  
Ingo Karpen ◽  
Francis Farrelly
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Important Determinant ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Domestic Economy ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Domestic Tourism ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Tourism Economy

People often demonstrate a home country bias toward their own nation over other nations. This bias is an important determinant of their behavior. Drawing on seminal research from marketing and psychology, the authors provide the first investigation of the tourism ethnocentrism (TE) phenomenon that captures tourists’ and residents’ motivation to support the domestic tourism economy. The research reported herein develops the parsimonious, reliable, and valid TE scale, and provides an empirical test thereof. The results show that TE is an important means to investigate both tourists’ and residents’ behavior. It drives tourists’ willingness to engage in and recommend domestic tourism, as well as residents’ support for domestic tourism development. The results further reveal that higher levels of tourists’ “perceived self-efficacy to contribute to the domestic economy” and lower levels of “perceived economy support of others” strengthen TE’s effect. The authors discuss the implications of these findings for research and practice.

scholarly journals Contribution of Domestic Tourism to Sustainable Tourism Development

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Forbes Kabote
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
Domestic Tourism ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies

Tourism literature is awash with evidence of the value of domestic tourism to the tourism industry in general. However; there is limited knowledge of how domestic tourism is contributing towards sustainable tourism development especially in developing countries. This study explored the contribution of domestic tourism to sustainable tourism development in Zimbabwe, one developing country in Southern Africa. Using qualitative methodologies, data were collected and thematically analysed. The study revealed that domestic tourism has both positive and negative contributions to sustainable tourism development in unique ways. In conclusion, it was noted that without domestic tourism, Zimbabwe as a tourism destination would be struggling to grow its tourism product offering and expand its market share on the global tourism market.

Impact of Covid-19 on Tourism Sector in Nepal.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal Prasad Panthhe ◽  
C N Kokate
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Total Employment ◽  
Global Impact ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The Government ◽  
Tourism Economy

Tourism is an important source of foreign exchange earnings for the government and contributes to the livelihood of millions in developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to explore and illuminate the preliminary impacts of COVID-19 in tourism sector in Nepal and further the paper puts forward policy recommendations for government to avert the worst effects and facilitate recovery. In Nepal, the travel and tourism sector contributes to 8 percent of GDP, 6.7 percent of total employment, and it generates 6 percent of the total foreign exchange earnings. Nepal Tourism Board estimates that loss of 85.2 billion USD monthly from tourism sector only and three in five employees lost their jobs due to COVID-19 in Nepal. The “Visit Nepal 2020” campaign had cancelled which aimed to attract 2 million tourists in the country this year. Tourism sector has already suffered a huge loss, and it is going to take quite to restore. The government should form special task force to create economic response package that will support Nepalese, their job, their businesses from the global impact of COVID-19, and to ready the economy to recover.Keywords: Covid-19, Tourism, Economy, Nepal.

Between Maoists and Millionaires, 1975–1996

2018 ◽  
pp. 129-154
Author(s):  
Mark Rice
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Development ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Shining Path ◽  
Machu Picchu ◽  
Adventure Tourism ◽  
Alberto Fujimori ◽  
International Investors ◽  
Grassroots Innovations ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Tourism Economy

Burdened with debt, the national state withdrew its investment in tourism development in Cusco in the late 1970s. More ominously, the growth of the Maoist Shining Path rebellion and its attacks on travellers nearly brought the tourism economy to collapse by the end of the 1980s. Yet, this chapter also documents the grassroots innovations in Cusco’s tourism economy. As traditional tourists avoided Machu Picchu, expatriates and locals created a new adventure tourism economy based on backpacking and hiking. Using new transnational cultural and travel networks, these efforts reinvented Machu Picchu as an exotic and adventurous site. The neoliberal government of Alberto Fujimori of the 1990s employed the new imagery of Machu Picchu as it sought to attract new private investment into Peru. These efforts brought in a bonanza of new Lima-based and international investors. However, the new state policies provoked local anger who rallied against tourism development perceived as unjust and as a threat to the region’s historical heritage

Evaluating the impact of policy research: Evidence from the evaluation of rural policy research in developing countries

Evaluation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-561
Author(s):  
Roger Slade ◽  
Peter Hazell ◽  
Frank Place ◽  
Mitch Renkow
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Research Investments ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rural Policy

Policy research concerning developing countries must compete for scarce resources with alternative development investments, many of which are amenable to quantitative assessment of their impact and economic efficiency. This is especially true for policy research that addresses agriculture, food and rural poverty—rural policy research. This paper draws on existing evaluations of rural policy research to identify good practice in the conduct of impact evaluations in developing countries. While much has been learnt from these evaluations about how rural policy research can influence policies, the impact of the policy changes that may follow, and about methods for conducting such studies, very few have assessed the efficiency or economic benefit of rural policy research investments. The paper concludes that while the current focus on the use of mixed-method evaluations is necessary and sufficient in most cases, in the context of allocating public resources, evaluations that provide plausible estimates of the rates of return to major rural policy research investments, or even rural policy research institutions yield important additional and comparative information for decision makers. However, such quantitative assessments do not replace but depend on the prior conduct of qualitative and mixed-method evaluations.

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