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dc.contributor.authorMei, Xiang Ying
dc.contributor.authorArcodia, Charles
dc.contributor.authorRuhanen, Lisa
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-29T12:30:44Z
dc.date.available2017-06-29T12:30:44Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.date.modified2014-04-11T05:39:52Z
dc.identifier.issn1368-3500
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13683500.2013.822477
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/58316
dc.description.abstractIn the recent years, there has been a growing focus on tourism innovation and its importance in destination development. Tourism development at the national level would evidently require the involvement of the national government as the facilitator. However, the role of the government in such process is yet to be explored with empirical evidence. As such, this article focuses on identifying the specific roles that the national government play as a facilitator in fostering destination level innovation, and to examine those factors that inhibit national governments in facilitating destination level innovation. Using Norway as a case study, the results reveal that although there is no perceived lack of political will and emphasis on tourism innovation by the policymakers, the effectiveness of many government efforts are questioned. Government efforts to facilitate innovation are identified to include financial supports, consultancy services, skills development programmes, and R&D schemes. The national government also possibly inhibits tourism innovation indirectly mainly through the challenges in defining innovation, lack of knowledge from the government's side that possibly also leads to its resistance to change and unwillingness to adapt to certain situations, and policies and regulations which is related to conflict of interests.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1172
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1191
dc.relation.ispartofissue12
dc.relation.ispartofjournalCurrent Issues in Tourism
dc.relation.ispartofvolume18
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMarketing
dc.subject.fieldofresearchTourism
dc.subject.fieldofresearchTourism management
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3506
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3508
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode350803
dc.titleThe national government as the facilitator of tourism innovation: Evidence from Norway
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2013
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorArcodia, Charles


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