Small firms in the tourism industry: some conceptual issues

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Conceptualizing Integrated Rural Tourism (2007, background): “However, this closeness among members facilitates transfer and exchange of tacit knowledge assisted through deep personal and social bonds and collective values among network members ( Coleman 1988 ; 1990 ; Putnam 1995 ; Thomas, 2000 ).”
COVID‐19: Small and medium enterprises challenges and responses with creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship (2021, background): “SMEs are a significant part of travel and tourism industry, hospitality, food services as these industries include small tour operators, car rental companies, restaurant, accommodations (hotels and motels) (Rhodri, 2000).”
Encouraging Sustainable Business Practices in a Non-regulatory Environment: A Case Study of Small Tourism Firms in a UK National Park (2003, background): “For, in the UK as elsewhere in the world, most businesses in the tourism sector are small, regardless of the particular definition of ‘smallness’ that is adopted (Thomas,2000).”
Urban tourism and small tourism enterprise development in Johannesburg: The case of township tourism (2004, background): “Notwithstanding a rising tempo of research on small tourism firms, with notable works by Shaw and Williams (1998, 2002, 2004), Page et al. (1999), Wanhill (1999) and Thomas (1998, 2000, 2004) , it remains that there is “a gap in the literature concerning small tourism businesses in urban areas” (Sc”