Download or read book Knowledge Sharing and Quality Assurance in Hospitality and Tourism written by Noel Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn both theory and practice of knowledge management Sir Francis Bacon once wrote, “Knowledge is power.” Knowledge Sharing and Quality Assurance in Hospitality and Tourism provides strategies to grab that power and the competitive edge in the tourism industry through knowledge management (KM) and quality assurance. Leading tourism and hospitality experts offer the latest theory and practical frameworks to expand the knowledge needed for creating and maintaining success at destinations around the world. Each cogent chapter provides fresh directions for future research and the creation of effective ways to share and use knowledge. As the tourism and hospitality industry expands, the competition increases as the search continues for ways to ensure quality, know the consumer, and discover the best standards of destination operation. Knowledge Sharing and Quality Assurance in Hospitality and Tourism is a unique foundational text that clearly explains the theory and practical management of knowledge in this lucrative, very competitive industry. Knowledge theory is used to explore organizational functioning, change issues, and operations at destinations in industry clusters and networks. Chapters are extensively referenced. Topics in Knowledge Sharing and Quality Assurance in Hospitality and Tourism include: the role of higher education in transferring knowledge into practice four kinds of benchmarking e-mail response quality quality management at the destination level and its path to knowledge sharing tourism managers knowledge needs—the knowledge type, where the knowledge is available, and sharing that knowledge between academics and the industry strategic planning in knowledge management three element framework of knowledge management assessment a case study of an international tourism project and the use of knowledge management a case study of best practice in tourism research dissemination in Quebec and Queensland Knowledge Sharing and Quality Assurance in Hospitality and Tourism is crucial, idea-sparking reading perfect for tourism researchers, tourism managers, administrators, educators, and students.

Download or read book Knowledge Sharing and Quality Assurance in Hospitality and Tourism written by Noel Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn both theory and practice of knowledge management Sir Francis Bacon once wrote, “Knowledge is power.” Knowledge Sharing and Quality Assurance in Hospitality and Tourism provides strategies to grab that power and the competitive edge in the tourism industry through knowledge management (KM) and quality assurance. Leading tourism and hospitality experts offer the latest theory and practical frameworks to expand the knowledge needed for creating and maintaining success at destinations around the world. Each cogent chapter provides fresh directions for future research and the creation of effective ways to share and use knowledge. As the tourism and hospitality industry expands, the competition increases as the search continues for ways to ensure quality, know the consumer, and discover the best standards of destination operation. Knowledge Sharing and Quality Assurance in Hospitality and Tourism is a unique foundational text that clearly explains the theory and practical management of knowledge in this lucrative, very competitive industry. Knowledge theory is used to explore organizational functioning, change issues, and operations at destinations in industry clusters and networks. Chapters are extensively referenced. Topics in Knowledge Sharing and Quality Assurance in Hospitality and Tourism include: the role of higher education in transferring knowledge into practice four kinds of benchmarking e-mail response quality quality management at the destination level and its path to knowledge sharing tourism managers knowledge needs—the knowledge type, where the knowledge is available, and sharing that knowledge between academics and the industry strategic planning in knowledge management three element framework of knowledge management assessment a case study of an international tourism project and the use of knowledge management a case study of best practice in tourism research dissemination in Quebec and Queensland Knowledge Sharing and Quality Assurance in Hospitality and Tourism is crucial, idea-sparking reading perfect for tourism researchers, tourism managers, administrators, educators, and students.

Download or read book ICMLG 2018 6th International Conference on Management Leadership and Governance written by Dr Vincent Ribiere and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings represent the work of researchers participating in the 6th International Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance (ICMLG 2018) which is being hosted this year by the Institute for Knowledge and Innovation Southeast Asia (IKI-SEA), a Centre of Excellence of at Bangkok University, Thailand on 24-25 May 2018.

Download or read book Accelerating Knowledge Sharing Creativity and Innovation Through Business Tourism written by Bari, Muhammad Waseem and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business tourism is a newly coined terminology in social sciences and management literature. It is defined as individuals traveling and staying outside of their hometowns for not more than one successive year for the purpose of enjoyment and other drives (e.g., learning and business activities). Key business tourism activities include attending a variety of meetings, conferences, and workshops as well as exhibitions. Understanding the negative and positive aspects of business tourism is essential to promoting employee learning and knowledge transfer skills. Accelerating Knowledge Sharing, Creativity, and Innovation Through Business Tourism is an essential reference source that discusses how differences in cultures, communities, rituals, norms, and scope of business tourism could influence knowledge sharing practices. Moreover, this book promotes an understanding on how to learn from different cultures and enhance absorptive capacity by interacting with different personalities and cultures. Featuring research on topics such as knowledge management, social capital, and consumer behavior, this book is ideally designed for business professionals, managers, administrators, hotel executives, IT specialists, executives, entrepreneurs, managing directors, and students looking to boost their existing skills and expertise with innovation and creativity by interacting with others and in a new context.

Download or read book Shifts in Knowledge Sharing and Creativity for Business Tourism written by Bari, Muhammad Waseem and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the contemporary landscape, the significance of business tourism has surged, drawing substantial attention from researchers in the realms of social and management sciences. Defined as an individual's travel outside their local town for business opportunities, transactions, enjoyment, and learning, business tourism has undergone notable shifts, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book titled Shifts in Knowledge Sharing and Creativity for Business Tourism emerges as a solution to unravel the positive and negative impacts of the pandemic on business traveling, specifically addressing changes in the frequency of business tourism and its effects on employee learning and knowledge transfer skills. This book meticulously covers a spectrum of aspects related to the evolving landscape of business tourism post-COVID-19. Its objective is multifaceted: first, to underscore the importance of business tourism in the domains of social sciences and management sciences literature; second, to deepen the understanding of how business tourism facilitates learning across diverse theories and concepts through interactions with different cultures; third, to explore the transferability of knowledge learned in various places to domestic implementations; fourth, to enhance individual and organizational innovation and creativity skills catalyzed by business tourism; and fifth, to delve into the dynamics of tacit and explicit knowledge transfer in the post-pandemic business environment.

Download or read book ECKM 2023 24th European Conference on Knowledge Management Vol 2 written by Alvaro Rosa and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 24th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2023), hosted by Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal on 7-8 September 2023. The Conference Chair is Prof Florinda Matos, and the Programme Chair is Prof Álvaro Rosa, both from Iscte Business School, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal. ECKM is now a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 24th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and ever-growing area of research. The opening keynote presentation is given by Professor Leif Edvinsson, on the topic of Intellectual Capital as a Missed Value. The second day of the conference will open with an address by Professor Noboru Konno from Tama Graduate School and Keio University, Japan who will talk about Society 5.0, Knowledge and Conceptual Capability, and Professor Jay Liebowitz, who will talk about Digital Transformation for the University of the Future. With an initial submission of 350 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 184 Academic research papers, 11 PhD research papers, 1 Masters Research paper, 4 Non-Academic papers and 11 work-in-progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, México, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, UK, United Arab Emirates and the USA.

Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management written by Chris Cooper and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 1629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management is a critical, authoritative review of tourism management, written by leading international thinkers and academics in the field. Arranged over two volumes, the chapters are framed as critical synoptic pieces covering key developments, current issues and debates, and emerging trends and future considerations for the field. The two volumes focus in turn on the theories, concepts and disciplines that underpin tourism management in volume one, followed by examinations of how those ideas and concepts have been applied in the second volume. Chapters are structured around twelve key themes: Volume One Part One: Researching Tourism Part Two: Social Analysis Part Three: Economic Analysis Part Four: Technological Analysis Part Five: Environmental Analysis Part Six: Political Analysis Volume Two Part One: Approaching Tourism Part Two: Destination Applications Part Three: Marketing Applications Part Four: Tourism Product Markets Part Five: Technological Applications Part Six: Environmental Applications This handbook offers a fresh, contemporary and definitive look at tourism management, making it an essential resource for academics, researchers and students.

Download or read book Knowledge Management in Hospitality and Tourism written by Sungsoo Pyo and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-09-24 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When knowledge is properly managed, it's in the hands of those who need it BEFORE they need it. This greatly improves the speed of business operations by eliminating time-consuming information searching! This book will show you how to make any hospitality or tourism related business more efficient and competitive by using knowledge management concepts and techniques. It provides an essential introduction to the concept of knowledge management plus fascinating case studies, strategic advice, and structural recommendations for its implementation. You'll learn to use knowledge management to avoid the duplication of research, reducing the cost of product research and development and increasing the effectiveness of your overall operation. Helpful charts and figures make the information easy to access and understand. From the editors: “Although tourism and hospitality, with their geographically dispersed units, can profit from enhanced knowledge management, only a small number of firms have implemented knowledge management techniques. A recent study shows that although managers in many hotels consider knowledge management and information transfer to be 'relevant concepts,' they report being confronted with too many—and unclear—knowledge management strategies, activities, and implementation techniques. As a result, they are not sufficiently familiar with knowledge management and reject implementing it. This book will increase understanding of these concepts and help to speed the implementation of knowledge management in the hospitality and tourism industries.” This book will show you how to make any hospitality or tourism related business more competitive by using knowledge management concepts and techniques. It provides an essential introduction to the concept of knowledge management, with fascinating case studies as well strategic advice and structural recommendations for its implementation. In addition, you'll find: analyses of various aspects of knowledge management in hotels an examination of an Internet-based knowledge management system and its sources, repositories, taxonomy, services, applications, and user interfaces the advent of the “knowledge café” and what it means to the travel and tourism industries the knowledge supply chain matrix, which combines strategic and operative aspects of knowledge management—with a practical example drawn from the airline industry new developments in software applications for cross-border destination management, with an example drawn from the new “AlpNet” project that demonstrates the importance of cooperation and of member-specific requirements insightful thoughts about mental models as they relate to tourism—what they are and how understanding them can lead to lower degrees of mistrust and more efficient operation of tourism-based businesses essential information about database marketing, data mining, and knowledge discovery, with introductions to decision tree classifiers, regression analysis, induction programming logic, and probabilistic rules

Download or read book Challenges in Tourism Research written by Tej Vir Singh and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2015 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume leading experts from different disciplines and diverse geographic regions discuss fundamental, often controversial topics in the field of tourism studies. The debates include subjects such as the concept of the 'tourist', the long-term sustainability of tourism development, the growth of volunteer tourism and the vulnerability of tourism.

Download or read book Social Media for Knowledge Management Applications in Modern Organizations written by Di Virgilio, Francesca and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the digital age, numerous technological tools are available to enhance business processes. When used effectively, knowledge sharing and organizational success are significantly increased. Social Media for Knowledge Management Applications in Modern Organizations is a pivotal reference source for the latest research findings on the role of social media, information technology, and knowledge management in business today. Featuring extensive coverage on relevant areas such as digital business, resource management, and consumer behavior, this publication is an ideal resource for managers, corporate trainers, researchers, academics, and students interested in emerging perspectives on social media for knowledge management applications.

Download or read book Multilevel Approach to Competitiveness in the Global Tourism Industry written by Teixeira, Sérgio Jesus and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companies compete to gain public notoriety every day and use creativity and innovation to get ahead of their competition. In oversaturated industries, such as the tourism sector, smart strategies and global network capabilities must be adopted and improved in order to increase competitiveness. Multilevel Approach to Competitiveness in the Global Tourism Industry contains crucial reference material that discusses new intelligent practices to increase business competitiveness in the tourism sector. Featuring research on topics such as networking, artificial intelligence, and regional competitiveness, this book is ideally designed for program directors, event coordinators, tour developers, hotel managers, restaurateurs, travel agents, policymakers, academics, researchers, advanced students, entrepreneurs, government officials, and professionals in the tourism and hospitality industry.

Download or read book Marketing and Management Sciences written by Damianos P. Sakas and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the International Conference of Marketing and Management Sciences held from 23 to 25 May 2008 in Athens, Greece. The papers focus on how globalization has had significant impact on companies, societies and individuals alike. They discuss the need for new strategies and practices that can help cope with changes that arise due to globalization. Written in a simple manner, this book will be of interest to academics studying and teaching marketing and management courses and to managers dealing with strategies to cope with changes due to globalization.

Download or read book Leveraging Developing Economies with the Use of Information Technology Trends and Tools written by Usoro, Abel and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No aspect of business, public, or private lives in developed economies can be discussed today without acknowledging the role of information and communication technologies (ICT). A shortage of studies still exists, however, on how ICTs can help developing economies. Leveraging Developing Economies with the Use of Information Technology: Trends and Tools moves toward filling the gap in research on ICT and developing nations, bringing these countries one step closer to advancement through technology. This essential publication will bring together ideas, views, and perspectives helpful to government officials, business professionals, and other individuals worldwide as they consider the use of ICT for socio-economic progress in the developing world.

Download or read book Tourism and ICTs Advances in Data Science Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability written by Antonio J. Guevara Plaza and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Organizational Knowledge Facilitation through Communities of Practice in Emerging Markets written by Buckley, Sheryl and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communities of Practice are accessible to both experts and new members of a particular community with diverse academic and cultural backgrounds as well as varying social expectations and experiences. Despite the tremendous opportunities for collective learning and knowledge sharing that Communities of Practice offer, not enough is known about these communities in emerging economies and their potential to facilitate cooperation between experts from around the world. Organizational Knowledge Facilitation through Communities of Practice and Emerging Markets seeks to fill the knowledge gap surrounding Communities of Practice and their role within developing nations. Focusing on critical topics related to different types of knowledge communities and the ways in which such communities generate innovation, this research-based publication is an ideal reference source for academics, business professionals, researchers, entrepreneurs, and those currently studying at the graduate level.

Download or read book Connectivity and Knowledge Management in Virtual Organizations Networking and Developing Interactive Communications written by Camison, Cesar and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book analyzes different types of virtual communities, proposing Knowledge Management as a solid theoretical ground for approaching their management"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism written by Mike Peters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the latest research on new ways to measure innovation in the tourism value chain Until now, most available research on innovation in tourism product service and development has focused on concepts, rather than facts. Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism presents empirical studies that identify the major push and pull factors of innovation in hospitality and tourism, providing vital information on how to measure innovation in the control and sustainable management of new service development. This unique book examines the internal and external drivers of innovation in the market place, the difference between innovative firms and those that merely follow trends, and explanations and examples of innovations in special areas of the tourism value chain. With hospitality markets saturated and clients selecting services from all over the world, it’s not enough to have an innovative idea for a new tourism productyour idea has to have the potential to be successfully marketed. Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism looks at methods of measuring the market-based applications of new processes, products, and forms of organization, the economic impact of innovation, innovation as a bipolar process between market and resources, and forms of cooperation that can strengthen and reinforce innovation. The book’s contributors analyze the relationship between welfare services and tourism in Denmark, the innovation potential throughout the tourism value chain from the supply side focus, innovation as a competitive advantage in Alpine tourism and in the small- and medium-sized hotel industry, tourism innovation statistics across products, providers, markets, and geopolitical regions, and a case study of AltiraSPA, a wellness concept of the ArabellaSheraton group. Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism examines: product development measuring innovation consumer-based measurement of innovation innovation processes in hotel chains innovation performances in hotel chains and independent hotels mobile business solutions for tourist destinations Internet portals in tourism analyzing innovation potential leadership and innovation processes welfare services and tourism as a driving force for innovation SERVQUAL as a tool for developing innovations and much more Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism is an invaluable resource for academics, professionals, practitioners, and researchers working in the field of hospitality and tourism.