Increasing profit in tourism through strengthening of management competencies

Strengthening Tourism SME Brands

This study develops propositions for a benchmarking exercise involving SME and tourism destination brands. In order to reveal the role of SMEs at destinations and their role in the destination brand, the tourism production process is analysed. It is suggested to view destinations as virtual service firms (VSF) as this highlights the interdependencies between SMEs, but also allows the descriptio...

Profit-increasing asymmetric entry

Area Editor: John H. Roberts Despite conventional wisdom that firm profits decrease with competitive entry, the empirical literaturefinds a number of situationswhere the entry of an equivalent-quality competitor into amarket led to higher profits for the incumbents. Our paper uses a standard linear Hotelling (1929)market to study how location choices affect the possibility that profits increase...

Profit-Increasing Consumer Exit

This paper examines the phenomenon of profit-increasing consumer exit, and the related phenomenon of profit-decreasing consumer entry. We demonstrate that firms can be better off in shrinking markets and worse off in growing markets, even in the absence of competitive entry or exit. Specifically, firms may benefit if a segment of consumers who are relatively indifferent about consuming any prod...

Key Competencies of Tourism Graduates: The Employers' Point of View

acquiring core competencies in ikco through elements of knowledge management: investigating the mediation role of knowledge management processes

the purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effects of infrastructure and strategy of knowledge management on acquisition of core competencies through knowledge management process in ‘iran khodro company’. research method was descriptive-correlation. statistical population encompassed 400 members of supervisors, middle managers, and senior managers in iran’s ikco. the opinions of 198 members w...