Table of Contents

1. Introduction / Jovo Ateljevic and Stephen Page

Part I - Understanding the Conceptual Basis of Tourism Entrepreneurship

2. Tourism Entrepreneurship – Concepts and Issues / Jovo Ateljevic and Lan Li
3. Introduction and Overview to the Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurial Process / Elizabeth Chell

Part II - Creative Use of Entrepreneurship and Processes of Social Innovation

4. Sustaining Creative Entrepreneurship: The Role of Innovation Systems / Edward H. Huijbens, Anne-Mette Hjalager, ... Arvid Flagestad
5. Women Empowerment Entrepreneurship Nexus in Tourism: Processes of Social Innovation / Linda W.J. Peeters and Irena Ateljevic
6. Entrepreneurs, Institutions and Institutional Entrepreneurship: New Light through Old Windows? / Thomas Forbes
7. Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Tourism: Public Sector Experiences of Innovation Activity in Tourism in Scandinavia and Scotland / Julie Franchetti and Stephen J. Page

Part III - Tourism Entrepreneurship Mediating the Global-Local Divide

8. Entrepreneurial Crafts and the Tourism Industry / Ian Fillis
9. Tourism Entrepreneurship and Regional Development / Jovo Ateljevic
10. Entrepreneurial Wildlife Exploitation in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Overview / Peter Rosa and Patricia Joubert
11. Bridging the Global–Local Divide: Lessons from Indigenous Entrepreneurship on Vatulele Island, Fiji / Stephen Doorne
12. Building Institutional, Economic and Social Capacities: The Role of NGOs in the Context of Bosnia–Herzegovina & Serbia / Jovo Ateljevic and David Gallagher

Part IV - Sectoral Strategies and Policy Issues of Tourism Entrepreneurship

13. The Public Policy Context of Tourism Entrepreneurship / C. Michael Hall
14. A Multi-stakeholder Approach to Tourism Development / Marko Koscak and Tony O’Rourke
15. Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), Entrepreneurship and SMTEs / Dimitrios Buhalis and Hilary Murphy
16. Access to Finance: Delivery Structures and the Problems Faced by Micro and Small Tourism Entrepreneurs / Tony O’Rourke
17. Tourism Distribution: From Structure to Strategy / Douglas G. Pearce
18. Understanding and Influencing the Entrepreneurial Intentions of Tourism Students / Andreas Walmsley and Rhodri Thomas
19. Tourism in Wartime Britain 1914–18: Adaptation, Innovation and the Role of Thomas Cook & Son / Stephen J. Page and Alastair Durie