ABSTRACT

Innovation and technological advancements can be disruptive forces, especially for conventional business in the hospitality and tourism industries. This book is timely with its critical examination of such forces and how the two industries should strategize and respond to changes effectively. It examines a wide scope of topics, from environmental scanning, formulation, implementation and evaluation to the way managers make strategy choices for better organizational performance.

The book illustrates how companies can re-orient their strategies and appraise the effectiveness of the business; its key competitors; and how they should set business goals through various cases, i.e. different types of hospitality and tourism business from traditional hotels to Airbnb and endeavors to provide strategic conceptual theories with real world application through such case studies.

chapter 1|5 pages

Tourism, hospitality and digital transformation

The relevance for society

chapter 4|26 pages

Love is the bridge between you and everything

Relationships of identity, experience, and benevolence to travelers’ loyalty and willingness to purchase

chapter 5|16 pages

Understanding organizational agility

Evidence from the hotel industry in Iran

chapter 6|17 pages

The application of theories about capital structure

Pecking order, trade-off and signaling in the hotel units in Portugal

chapter 9|18 pages

Digital application

Evidence from Zurich Airport

chapter 11|46 pages

Surf tourism knowledge system

A conceptual approach