Entrepreneurial Skills for New Tourism Firm Creation in a Turbulent Context

Álvaro Lopes Dias (), Rui Silva (), Mafalda Patuleia () and Maria Rosario González-Rodríguez ()
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Álvaro Lopes Dias: ISCTE-IUL and BRU
Rui Silva: Instituto Superior de Gestão
Mafalda Patuleia: Universidade Lusófona
Maria Rosario González-Rodríguez: Universidad de Sevilla

Chapter Chapter 4 in Global Challenges and Uncertainty in Tourism and Hospitality, Volume II, 2025, pp 81-109 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract New firm creation requires a rapid shift in skills to cope with the market growth. This study explores the skills related to success and failure in tourism entrepreneurship. It combines Delphi method and Q-sort technique. It identifies alertness, self-efficacy, experience, and networking as success factors. It also finds insufficient commitment, unviable idea, lack of control and information, and heuristics as failure factors. A pioneering approach to jack of all trades theory in tourism allows for the definition of a balanced skillset for nascent entrepreneurs.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-92409-5_4

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