Abstract
Introduction: The innovation process, and its application to several contexts, has been gradually gaining ground in the academic community as a field of study. Similarly, in recent decades, tourism has received greater attention from academics in different sciences and focus (e.g. economic, social, cultural and environmental).Objective: The purpose of this study is to explore and to contribute the literature on special interest tourism and innovation process (e.g. ecotourism management).Methods: This is a conceptual paper that brings together the major components of innovation process and its implications in special interest tourism contexts (e.g. ecotourism).Results: The study presents closely to primary classical innovation and entrepreneurship issues. The creation process associated with the nature and sustainable reservation systems, mechanisms and information sharing are a competitive advantage over tourism destinations and products.Conclusions: The generators entrepreneurship and innovative factors that may trigger an entrepreneurial activity. The study considers some of the implications for management and literature. Implications for future research are also presented.
Highlights
The innovation process, and its application to several contexts, has been gradually gaining ground in the academic community as a field of study
According to Hjalager (2015), growing numbers of tourism researchers are addressing the wide palette of issues that fall within the innovation headline and expanding the methodological scope
Further sections of the article will look at the special interest tourism perspective including several examples from the perspective of sustainability and ecotourism management
Summary
Tourism has been a phenomenon characterized by vast innovativeness. Scientific studies have drawn attention to distinctive individuals and enterprises, and their achievements have been analysed and assessed from all perspectives. According to Ma and Tan (2006, p.705), “there has been an increasingly popular trend of cross-fertilization among strategic management research and entrepreneurship research, two fields deeply concerned with wealth creation and heavily influenced by Schumpeter’s seminal work on innovation and creative destruction” In this context, and according Hjalager (2010), the emerging service economy in general, and the upcoming software boom of the 1980s in particular, changed the notion of innovation to include immaterial products, with the result that service industries were gradually recognized for their measurable innovative potential (Miles, 2003; Zach, 2016).
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