dc.contributor.author | Løseth, Kristin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-03-09T08:04:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-03-09T08:04:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-08-08 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Løseth, K. (2014). Adventure tourism: Exploring relations between knowledge and innovation. (Doktorgradsavhandling), Det humanistiske fakultet, Universitetet i Aalborg, Aalborg. | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-87-7112-159-9 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2246-123X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/278677 | |
dc.description.abstract | In a rapidly changing tourism industry, the international competition is strong
and the well-travelled tourists have high expectations. This has led to an increasing
emphasis on the development of new services and experiences to attract
tourists’ attention. Innovation has become a “buzz-word”, seen as essential for
survival and growth.
With cases from Norway and NZ this thesis examines what innovation means
in the context of adventure tourism businesses, and explore relations between
such change processes and the available knowledge resources of the business.
Several factors influence the knowledge resources of a given business, and this
study looks specifically at how the size of the business, its location, and the maturity
of the specific adventure tourism activity shapes processes of knowledge
development and innovation.
The study takes it starting point in research on small businesses and tourism innovation,
and draws on perspectives from economic geography and evolutionary
theories of industry development. In addition sociological theories of leisure are
included to explore how the close relations between adventure tourism and certain
outdoor recreation milieus may benefit knowledge development. | nb_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | nb_NO |
dc.subject | Aktivitetsturisme | nb_NO |
dc.subject | Innovasjon | nb_NO |
dc.subject | Turistnæring | nb_NO |
dc.subject | Naturbasert turisme | nb_NO |
dc.title | Adventure tourism: Exploring relations between knowledge and innovation | nb_NO |
dc.type | Doctoral thesis | nb_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 216 | nb_NO |