RT journal article
T1 Determinants of the Propensity for Innovation among Entrepreneurs in the Tourism Industry
A1 Montañés del Rio, Miguel Ángel
A1 Medina Garrido, José Aurelio
A2 Organización de Empresas
K1 entrepreneurship
K1 innovation
K1 tourism industry
K1 GEM
AB Tourism's increasing share of Gross Domestic Product throughout the world, its impact on employment and its continuous growth justifies the interest it raises amongst entrepreneurs and public authorities. However, this growth coexists with intense competition; as a result of which, tourism companies must continuously innovate in order to survive and grow. This is evident in the diversification of tourism products and destinations, the improvement of business processes and the incorporation of new technologies for intermediation, amongst other examples. This paper expounds on the factors that explain the propensity for innovation amongst tourism entrepreneurs and it may help governments to promote innovation that is based on those determining factors. The hypotheses are tested using a logistic regression on 699 international tourism entrepreneurs, taken from the 2014 Global Adult Population Survey of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor project. The propensity for innovation amongst tourism entrepreneurs has a statistically significant relationship to gender, age, level of education and informal investments in previous businesses.
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050
YR 2020
FD 2020-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/23600
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/23600
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 07-nov-2026