- Title
- Building capacity in a regional business community through engaged scholarship: a case study of the Tourism Monitor project in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia
- Creator
- Stolk, Paul J.; Lyons, Kevin D.; Young, Tamara
- Relation
- Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure Vol. 40, Issue 1, p. 151-165
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07053436.2017.1282192
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Leisure and tourism industries in regional areas are dominated by both small- and medium-sized businesses, collectively referred to as small-to-medium tourism enterprises. This paper presents a case study that describes a research initiative that was developed to engage with the wine tourism and related leisure industries of the Hunter Valley in New South Wales, Australia, where small-to-medium tourism enterprises have proliferated. The case study focusses upon a regional business performance monitoring initiative that was undertaken by a research team in collaboration with a small group of local industry champions. This paper draws upon the concept of engaged scholarship to highlight the challenges associated with building capacity of both small-to-medium tourism enterprises and the regional associations that represent them, and discusses the implications of such an approach.
- Subject
- engaged scholarship; SMTE; food and wine tourism; community capacity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1354243
- Identifier
- uon:31239
- Identifier
- ISSN:0705-3436
- Language
- eng
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