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Collaboration in tourism businesses and destinations : a handbook /

Contributor(s): Gursoy, Dogan | Saayman, M | Sotiriadis, Marios.
Publisher: Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2015Description: xxvi, 342 p. : ill. ;25 cm.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781783508068 (electronic bk.); 9781783508068:; 178350806X (electronic bk.); 9781783508112 (hardback); 1783508116 (hardback).Subject(s): Tourism -- Management | Tourism -- PlanningDDC classification: 338.4791
Contents:
List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction / Dogan Gursoy, Meliville Saayman and Marios Sotiriadis -- Part I : tourism business environment and collaboration. 1 : general context and tourism business environment : the contribution of alliances in a globalized context / Salvador Gómez Nieves and Ana Cecilia Reyes Uribe. 2 : business coperation and partnership : a case of cocreation at destination level / Marta Magadán and Jesús Rivas. 3 : partnerships and alliances in tourism : aims and functions / Ige Pirnar. 4 : collaborative policy making : a community-based perspective in the context of Sardinia's Maddalena Archipelago, Italy / Giacomo Del Chiappa and Marcello Atzeni -- Part II : collaboration in tourism industry and businesses. 5 : strategic alliances in the hospitality industry as an expansion strategy : an Indian perspective / Saurabh Kumar Dixit and Marios Sotiriadis. 6 : airline alliance : traditional carriers versus low cost carriers? / Eleftherios D. Katarelos. 7 : hotel industry : forming a strategic alliance with tourism service providers / J. A. Snyman. 8 : strategic collaboration with volunteers in events : partnering for success / Fleur Fallon -- Part III : collaboration in special interest and niche tourism. 9 : economic recession as a catalyst to increased collaboration in rural tourism / Catherine Gorman and Ziene Mottiar. 10 : are partnerships necessary in culinary tourism? / Leticia Estévez. 11 : business netowrks and opportunities in ecotourism : the case of the Kruger National Park / Melville Saayman. 12 : collaboration and partnerships in practice : The Creative Tourism Network® / Caroline Couret. 13 : challenges of collaborative partnership in developing a sustainable nature-based tourism in Langkawai / Azilah Kasim and Hisham Dzakiria -- Part IV : technology-enhanced collaboration in digital environment. 14 : tourism e-mediaries : business models and relationships with providers of tourism services / Marios Sotiriadis, Carmen loedolff and Christos Sarmaniotis. 15 : Collaboration in tourism e-commerce and evaluation metrics / Constantine Aivalis -- Part V : special issues of collaboration in tourism. 16 : negotiating partnerships and strategic alliances : a call to educators / John C. Crotts. 17 : governances of partnerships and alliances in tourism businesses and destinations / Sylvain Zeghni. 18 : potential contribution of collaborative forms in tourism innovation : a focus on tourism cluster / Nathalie Fabry. 19 : 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 -- About the authors -- Index.
Summary: This text examines the contribution and importance of alliances and partnerships to the tourism, travel and leisure industries. It concludes by providing management and marketing implications and recommendations for tourism business, destination managers and local planners to enable them to successfully operate such alliances.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction / Dogan Gursoy, Meliville Saayman and Marios Sotiriadis -- Part I : tourism business environment and collaboration. 1 : general context and tourism business environment : the contribution of alliances in a globalized context / Salvador Gómez Nieves and Ana Cecilia Reyes Uribe. 2 : business coperation and partnership : a case of cocreation at destination level / Marta Magadán and Jesús Rivas. 3 : partnerships and alliances in tourism : aims and functions / Ige Pirnar. 4 : collaborative policy making : a community-based perspective in the context of Sardinia's Maddalena Archipelago, Italy / Giacomo Del Chiappa and Marcello Atzeni -- Part II : collaboration in tourism industry and businesses. 5 : strategic alliances in the hospitality industry as an expansion strategy : an Indian perspective / Saurabh Kumar Dixit and Marios Sotiriadis. 6 : airline alliance : traditional carriers versus low cost carriers? / Eleftherios D. Katarelos. 7 : hotel industry : forming a strategic alliance with tourism service providers / J. A. Snyman. 8 : strategic collaboration with volunteers in events : partnering for success / Fleur Fallon -- Part III : collaboration in special interest and niche tourism. 9 : economic recession as a catalyst to increased collaboration in rural tourism / Catherine Gorman and Ziene Mottiar. 10 : are partnerships necessary in culinary tourism? / Leticia Estévez. 11 : business netowrks and opportunities in ecotourism : the case of the Kruger National Park / Melville Saayman. 12 : collaboration and partnerships in practice : The Creative Tourism Network® / Caroline Couret. 13 : challenges of collaborative partnership in developing a sustainable nature-based tourism in Langkawai / Azilah Kasim and Hisham Dzakiria -- Part IV : technology-enhanced collaboration in digital environment. 14 : tourism e-mediaries : business models and relationships with providers of tourism services / Marios Sotiriadis, Carmen loedolff and Christos Sarmaniotis. 15 : Collaboration in tourism e-commerce and evaluation metrics / Constantine Aivalis -- Part V : special issues of collaboration in tourism. 16 : negotiating partnerships and strategic alliances : a call to educators / John C. Crotts. 17 : governances of partnerships and alliances in tourism businesses and destinations / Sylvain Zeghni. 18 : potential contribution of collaborative forms in tourism innovation : a focus on tourism cluster / Nathalie Fabry. 19 : 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 -- About the authors -- Index.

This text examines the contribution and importance of alliances and partnerships to the tourism, travel and leisure industries. It concludes by providing management and marketing implications and recommendations for tourism business, destination managers and local planners to enable them to successfully operate such alliances.

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