Collaboration in tourism businesses and destinations [electronic resource] : 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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gursoy, Dogan (Editor)
Saayman, M. (Editor)
Sotiriadis, Marios (Editor)
Language:English
Published: United Kingdom : Emerald, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
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Variant Title:
Collaboration in Tourism Businesses and Destinations: A Handbook
Format: Electronic eBook
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
  • 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.