Gender and entrepreneurship in tourism. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Haywantee Ramkissoon (Professor of Tourism, Fellow of the Peer Review College, British Academy of Management, UK; UniSA Business, Executive Co-Director, Centre for Enterprise Dynamics in Global Economies (C-EDGE), University of South Australia; Johannesburg Business School, South Africa; Taylor's University, Malaysia) and Felix Mavondo (Professor of Marketing, Director of Research Impact, Co-Director Graduate Research Industry Partnership, Department of Marketing, Monash Business School, Australia).
• Editors: Ramkissoon, Haywantee; Mavondo, Felix
• Other Names: Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
• Contents: 1. Introduction to gender and entrepreneurship in tourism / Haywantee Ramkissoon and Felix Mavondo -- 2. Entrepreneurship: A man's world in the early days of tourism? / Richard. W. Butler -- 3. Gender differences in tourism entrepreneurship / Irene Cheng Chu Chan and Rob Law -- 4. Business opportunities off the beaten tourist path: Female entrepreneurs in puerto rico / Maria-Francisca Casado-Claro, Jakson Renner Rodrigues Soares and Priscila Cembranel -- 5. Female entrepreneurship in tourism: An island perspective / Senika Dewnarain and Vikramsing Gungah -- 6. Micro-entrepreneurs in a remote island setting / Richard. W. Butler -- 7. Female tourism entrepreneurs in China: Contributing factors to their entrepreneurial journey / Yangyang Jiang and Yizhe Cui -- 8. Women and entrepreneurship in tourism in Bangladesh / Azizul Hassan and Haywantee Ramkissoon -- 9. Emotional capital and entrepreneurship: Female tourism entrepreneurs in arctic norway / Line Mathisen and Siri Ulfsdatter Søreng -- 10. Personality traits as a factor for entrepreneurial success: Gender differences in tourism in oman / Ahmed Mohamed Elbaz, Islam Elbayoumi Salem, Nasser Alhamar Alkathiri, Hassan Aideed and Marwa Alshanfri -- 11. Gender and power in hospitality and tourism entrepreneurship: A case of the eastern cape province of South Africa / Faith Samkange, Juliet Chipumuro, Tsitsi Chipfuva and Haywantee Ramkissoon -- 12. Gender and entrepreneurship in transaction costs: Women entrepreneurs in the foodservice system / Amit Sharma, Donna Quadri-Feliti and Yidan Huang -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (228 pages)
• Subjects: 338.4791; Tourism; Entrepreneurship
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1800883862; 9781800883864
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print record.
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