Family Businesses in Tourism and Hospitality Innovative Studies and Approaches

This book provides a comprehensive collection of new insights into traditional paradigms, approaches, and methods, as well as more recent developments in issues related to family businesses in tourism and hospitality. The aim of the chapters is to verify whether, in the tourism industry, the “family business model” is an important development opportunity and, in particular, if it is an innovation driver, for this industry development. In this context, the authors contribute chapters from a diverse set of countries to investigate personal and family needs and preferences alongside the relationship between family business model, growth and profit maximization, and the development of tourism businesses through innovation drivers. SME competency, the impact of COVID-19 on performance and marketing, and policy improvements are also discussed in this volume.

Marco Valeri is a Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behavior and in Tourism Management at the Faculty of Economics, Niccolò Cusano University, Rome (Italy). He is Visiting Professor at Taylor’s University (Malaysia). His teaching and consultancy fields include strategic management, leadership development, cross-cultural management, and international hospitality management. His research areas include strategy implementation, knowledge management, family business, crisis management, and network analysis. He was a visiting professor at several Universities, and member of several editorial boards of international tourism journals, reviewer and editor of several handbooks on entrepreneurship, tourism, and hospitality management (Emerald Publishing, Springer, and IGI Global). He is the Associate Editor of Tourism: An International Interdisciplinary Journal, Series Book Editor on New Perspectives in Tourism and Hospitality Management, Research Notes Editor of the Journal of Tourism, Heritage & Services Marketing, and Social Media Editor of the Journal of Family Business.