State Level Research: Typology and Direction

The increasingly competitive environment for travelers dollars compels state travel offices to review their long term plans. An important part of that planning process is the role research will play in understanding travelers behavior. The types of research states might find most useful is the subject of this paper. Research studies are aggregated into four categories delineated as: Assessment, Monitoring, Product Positioning and Forecasting. Examples of each categorical type are briefly reviewed in terms of function and expected outputs. A strategy for designing an optimum research mix is also suggested

ENTER: Entrepreneurial Narrative Theory Ethnomethodology and Reflexivity: An Issue about The Republic of Tea

ENTER focuses on specific entrepreneurial narratives. The label entrepreneurial narrative is defined loosely, to encompass a variety of texts that are generated by entrepreneurs, or by others, about entrepreneurs. So, entrepreneurial narrative should be considered broadly. This first issue of ENTER focuses on the book The Republic of Tea (Zeigler, Rosenzweig & Zeigler, 1992). The book is a series faxes among the founders/authors about the development of a business called The Republic of Tea. The book, therefore, has a temporal aspect to it (the faxes occur over time) but, the story of the Republic of Tea is not told by one specific author, and the story does not unfold in the typical story form.https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cudp_entrepreneur/1005/thumbnail.jp

ACORN: Entrepreneurial Narrative and History

In order to learn how the entrepreneurial imagination works, it is important to study the stories that entrepreneurs tell about how they turned their ideas into businesses. In ACORN, the Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership presents interviews with entrepreneurs as they tell their stories about the creation of their businesses. Not only do these interviews offer insights into the activities specific to venture creation, but they also demonstrate some of the thought processes involved. This volume focuses on entrepreneurs who have started businesses based around new technologies at Clemson University.https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cudp_entrepreneur/1004/thumbnail.jp

Mature Market\u27s International Travel Characteristics and Images of the People\u27s Republic of China

Very little research has been conducted on the mature market (50+ years) with respect to travel. However, the size and economic spending power of this group makes it a significant force in the travel marketplace. The purpose of this article is to profile portions of the mature market predisposed to travel to the People\u27s Republic of China and analyze Before/After touristic images the groups held of the country. Some notable findings were 1) the individuals profiled in this study were frequent international travelers with over one-third traveling internationally three or more times a year, 2) they preferred traveling in family groups, 3) friends and relatives were the most commonly utilized sources for international travel information but the external search process also included other business provided sources, 4) Historical attractions followed closely by a category described as People had the highest attractiveness ratings although there was some evidence to suggest that expectations exceeded reality as most of the attributes contained in the Historical and People categories had lower attractiveness scores for the After visitation group than for the Before visitation group, 5) five of the ten service attributes were rated significantly higher by the After visitation group than for the Before visitation group. The study raises many questions about the mature market and their travel behavior. The need for further research is quite evident to more fully understand this significant group of travelers

Well-being capital and government’s intervention to dam’s affected residents: Pak Mun Dam, Thailand

Government plays an important role as a well-being capital provider through policies, strategies, or even direct provision to local residents to improve their livelihoods. Pak Mun Dam is one of the most controversial dams in Thailand, and government intervention is needed to solve the issues the dam has created. This study tests the premise that government intervention will impact overall well-being only through structural means by providing strategy and policies related to social and economic well-being. Government training programs and government services will impact over all well-being through social well-being. A satisfactory solution to the Pak Mun Dam situation will impact overall well-being through economic well-being. In this study a number of items, related to different well-being dimensions, were examined. The findings suggest that appropriate policy must address the four significant items which surfaced in the economic well-being measure and ten items in the social well-being dimension

Pak Mun Dam’s long term impact on local residents’ livelihood

Multidimensional well-being is an important method for understanding the social functioning of communities affected by the Pak Mun Dam, 26 years after its construction. This is the first quantitative research on the well-being of these communities. In six of eight well-being dimensions, the more distant communities are faring better than those in close proximity to the dam. Furthermore, 24 of 40 items that represent each dimension have statistically significant lower means in the affected community. This result shows the long-lasting nature of negative effects on communities and without appropriate policy action, negative impacts will linger preventing developmental progress from occurring

The Influence of Pre-Venture Planning on New Venture Creation

We use a sample of nascent entrepreneurs from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED) to explore whether engaging in business planning and the degree of planning formalization, combined with other activities, was more likely to result in the creation of new businesses. A review of longitudinal studies of nascent entrepreneur planning behaviors is provided and hypotheses are suggested about the relationship of pre-venture planning and planning formalization to success when starting new ventures. Findings from our study suggest that nascent entrepreneurs who completed a business plan were six times more likely to start a business than individuals who did not complete a business plan. In addition, nascent entrepreneurs who contacted and participated in government-sponsored entrepreneurship programs were five times more likely to start a business than entrepreneurs who did not seekgovernment assistance

Entrepreneurship-as-practice:grounding contemporary theories of practice into entrepreneurship studies

In this article, we contend that entrepreneurship studies would greatly benefit from engagement with contemporary theorizations of practice. The practice tradition conceives of the process of entrepreneuring as the enactment and entanglement of multiple practices. Appreciating entrepreneurial phenomena as the enactment and entanglement of practices orients researchers to an ontological understanding of entrepreneuring as relational, material and processual. Therefore, practice theories direct scholars towards observing and explaining the real-time practices of entrepreneuring practitioners. Articles in this special issue on ‘entrepreneurship-as-practice’ are discussed and suggestions for future research and scholarship that utilize contemporary theorizations of practice are offered

How to Avoid a COVID-19 Research Paper Tsunami? A Tourism System Approach

COVID-19 reaction policies have had the effect of putting the tourism economy into a form of forced hibernation. Currently there is speculation about what will happen as tourism begins to emerge from its dormant state. In this article, we use the concept of a system to analyze the potential research implications of COVID-19 effects on tourism. In doing so, we firmly place tourism within the concept of a system that relies on a steady flow of money from tourists to function. Three scenarios, each with two end states, to cover the array of potential reactions and recovery from the pandemic are presented. An impact grid is constructed to be able to follow the effects of policies and interventions on tourism objects and subjects. Examples of how research may use the grid to uncover impacts are presented. Conclusions reinforce the need for a system approach to guide COVID-19 tourism research

EXAMINING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF TOURISM: WHO GETS TO CLAIM THE GOLD?

Korištenje metodologije ekonomskog utjecaja za procjenu važnosti turističkih atrakcija može biti problematično. Prvi problem povezan je s načinom uporabe te tehnike, konkretnije s utvrđivanjem onoga što se zaista mjeri tom tehnikom. Drugi je problem u tome kako se dobiveni podaci koriste. Ovaj rad analizira jedno istraživanje procjene ekonomskog utjecaja vinske industrije u saveznoj državi Iowa u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama. Poznato je, naime, da se mnoge vinarije smatraju primarnim turističkim atrakcijama te je stoga važno razumjeti njihovu važnost za lokalna gospodarstva kako bi se počele donositi učinkovite politike razvoja. Korištenjem različitih pristupa za procjenu gospodarskog utjecaja u radu se pokazuje i raspon raznih vrijednosti koje mogu biti predmet procjene. S tim u vezi propitujemo i korištenje netočnih podataka, što je važno s obzirom da netočne i precijenjene ocjene ekonomskog utjecaja mogu dovesti do pogrešno usmjerenih politika kod ostalih primarnih turističkih atrakcija koje se ne prepoznaju kao one koje dodaju vrijednost nekom odredištu.The use of economic impact methodology to assess the importance of tourist attractions can be problematic. The fi rst issue is how the technique is utilized and what actually gets counted. The second issue is how the derived information is utilized. This paper discusses a study to estimate the economic impact of the winery industry in the state of Iowa in the United States. Many wineries are viewed as primary tourist attractions and it is important to understand their importance to local economies in order for effective development policy to be enacted. Using different approaches to measuring economic impact we show the range of values that can be estimated. From this we pose several concerns about the use of inaccurate. The use of inaccurate and overestimated economic impact assessments can lead to misdirected policy with other primary attractions not recognized as providing any value to a destination