Knowledge Networks and Tourism

ISBN-13: 9780415840163 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 176 str.

Michelle T. McLeod; Roger Vaughan

Opis

The receipt of knowledge is a key ingredient by which the tourism sector can adjust and adapt to its dynamic environment. However although its importance has long been recognised the fragmentation within the sector, largely as a result of it being comprised of small and medium sized businesses, makes understanding knowledge management challenging. This book applies knowledge management and social network theories to the business of tourism to shed light on successful operations of tourism knowledge networks. It contributes specifically to understanding a network perspective of the tourism sector, the information needs of tourism businesses, social network dynamics of tourism business operation, knowledge flows within the tourism sector and the transformation of the tourism sector through knowledge networks. Social Network Analysis is applied to fully explore the growth and maintenance of tourism knowledge networks and the relationships between tourism sector stakeholders in relation to their knowledge requirements. Knowledge Networks and Tourism will be valuable reading for all those interested in successful operations of tourism knowledge networks.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Tourism-planning network knowledge dynamics  3. Social network dynamics and innovation in small tourism companies  4. Tourism networks, knowledge dynamics and co-creation  5. Managing tourism knowledge: concepts and approaches  6. Socially-based inter-business knowledge sharing: a case study  7. Diffusion of tourism knowledge through stakeholder networks  8. Knowledge management and diffusion: the network paradigm  9. Data collection for social network analysis in tourism research  10. Analyzing inter-business knowledge sharing in the tourism sector  11. Conclusion