Global Alliances in Tourism and Hospitality Management
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Global Alliances in Tourism and Hospitality Management

  1. 178 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Global Alliances in Tourism and Hospitality Management

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Target your business strategies to fit specific tourist cultures!Since Thomas Cook packaged the first tour in 1841, hospitality and tourism enterprises have forged long-term alliances with one another. Yet research suggests that most such alliances will fail. What goes wrong? How can tourism professionals take advantage of all the ben

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Yes, you can access Global Alliances in Tourism and Hospitality Management by Dimitrios Buhalis,John C Crotts,John Crotts in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Industria dell'ospitalità e del turismo. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Index

ABACUS International, 2
Ability to partner, 4-5 Accommodations, unwanted, 132-133
Achievement ascription, 50
Agritourism
ecological and quality-of-life issues, 85-86
funding issues, 86
imported goods “leakages” and, 86
Niagara Region, 71-88. See also Niagara Region agritourism
Airline industry, 9,141-160
certificated carriers, 148-149
discussion, 155-157
literature review, 142-148
results, 153-155
Star Alliance, 73
study design, 148-158
Asian market, buyer decision making as compared with Japan, 11-25
Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO), 118
Attitudes, toward alliances, 5-6
Australia, buyer decision making study, 11-25
Aviation Daily analysis, 149-153
Bankruptcy, of tour operators, 128
Benefits and drawbacks, of collaboration, 98
British inland waterways consortium, 89-112
background and principles, 90-91, 94-95
conclusions, 107-108
consortium origin and development, 94-97
interorganizational collaboration in, 91-92
inter-organizational dynamics, 102-107
recommendations, 108-110
study design, 92-94
theoretical perspectives on, 97-102
British multi-ethnic hotel work group management, 49-69. See also Multi-ethnic work groups
British Tourism Authority, 8,93
Brock University (St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada), 71-88
Buyer behavior, 11-25
Buyer-seller relationships, 1-2,7
Buyer-supplier relationships, 73
Canada
Niagara Region agritourism, 71-88
Taste of Niagara Program, 76-81
Centrality concept, 29,35-36
Chain-of-excellence concept, 78
China, 11-24
City College Norwich (U.K.), 49-69
Coastal Caroline University (Conway, S.C.), 141-160
Collaboration, benefits and drawbacks of, 98
Collectivist-individualist continuum, 31,55,59-60,62,63-66
College of Charleston, S.C., 1-10
Co-marketing alliances, taxonomy of types, 101
Communication
context and, 52
cultural factors in, 52,64-66
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: Global Alliances in Tourism and Hospitality Management
  7. Buyer Decision-Making Behavior in International Tourism Channels
  8. Social Networks and Referrals in International Organizational Buying of Travel Services: The Role of Culture and Location
  9. Team Needs and Management of Multi-Ethnic Workgroups in Hotels
  10. Tastes of Niagara: Building Strategic Alliances Between Tourism and Agriculture
  11. Theoretical Perspectives Applied to Inter-Organisational Collaboration on Britain’s Inland Waterways
  12. Relationships in the Distribution Channel of Tourism: Conflicts Between Hoteliers and Tour Operators in the Mediterranean Region
  13. The Effect of Cross-Industry Cooperation on Performance in the Airline Industry
  14. Index