A REVIEW OF TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY INNOVATION RESEARCH

Andrea Nagy ()
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Andrea Nagy: West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Annals of Faculty of Economics, 2012, vol. 1, issue 2, 364-370

Abstract: Innovation plays a vital role in a company'(tm)s development and in helping it keep up with new technologies and customers'(tm) highest expectations. A large number of publications on tourism innovation reflect the interest of many authors in this topic. In the past few years several authors have approached tourism innovation, developed models of innovation in tourism, analyzed innovation types or the factors that influence innovation in this field. The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature on tourism innovation and to identify the main research tendencies in this area of interest. Therefore, we searched for keywords like 'tourism innovation' , 'hospitality innovation' or 'service innovation' in several databases such as Science Direct, Emerald, Sage Publications and The Center for Hospitality Research of Cornell University. Because this study focuses on tourism and hospitality innovation, there were analyzed 17 research papers regarding these aspects. Relevant findings such as factors that influence innovation in tourism and hospitality (hotels'(tm) size, category and chain structure, introduction of ICTs, employee involvement and commitment, customer or guest requests etc.), types of innovation implemented in this area and correlations between innovations'(tm) success and hotel performance were highlighted.

Keywords: innovation; service innovation; tourism; hotel; hospitality industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 M10 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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