Tourism entrepreneurs in Northumberland
By G. Bosworth, Helena K. Farrell. 2011
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Tourism is viewed as an increasingly important component of rural economic potential, especially in peripheral regions of the UK. As a sector, however, it is dominated by low skilled employment, seasonal demand cycles and perceived low levels of innovation and entrepreneurship. In this paper we explore the role of in-migrant owners of small tourism firms (STFs) in promoting entrepreneurship and developing competition in the tourism economy of Northumberland. We hypothesise that through a combination of extra-local networks and local embeddedness these business owners are not only succeeding for themselves but they are stimulating other local businesses by increasing local trade, heightening competition and raising standards and aspirations among all STFs.
Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- What Kind of Entrepreneurship Drives Regional Development in European Non-core Regions? A Literature Review on Empirical Entrepreneurship Research (2013, background): “Furthermore, Bosworth and Farrell (2011) observed that immigrant tourism entrepreneurs had broader social networks than their local counterparts.”
- Tourism Entrepreneurship Performance (2015, background): “…supports the proposition that tourism enterprises are often created by individuals with lifestyle objectives, such as the motivation to live in a desired location, build social networks, and be part of a community as opposed to profit maximization (Getz and Carlsen 2000; Bosworth and Farrell 2011).”
- The entrepreneurship research in hospitality and tourism (2019, background): “Lifestyle-oriented entrepreneurs are thus better at introducing innovative products or services at the destination (Shaw and Williams, 2004), creating niche markets (Koh and Hatten, 2002), and promoting diversified development of destinations (Bosworth and Farrell, 2011).”
- Informal microfinance institutions and development-led tourism entrepreneurship (2016, methodology): “The two quotations show how ROSCAs flexibility and associated kinship relationships (Lyon, 2005) provide informal communication channels that enable entrepreneurs to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities (Bosworth & Farrell, 2011) through creating STFs.”