Citizen Engagement and Entrepreneurship : Implications for Sustainable Tourism Development
Sigala, M., & Ukpabi, D. (2019). Citizen Engagement and Entrepreneurship : Implications for Sustainable Tourism Development. In J. Pesonen, & J. Neidhardt (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2019 : Proceedings of the International Conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, January 30-February 1, 2019 (pp. 396-407). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05940-8_31
Date
2019Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Research has not investigated the use of competitions-hackathons as a citizen engagement tool
to motivate and activate citizen’s engagement in entrepreneurship driving sustainable tourism
development. This paper fills in this gap by using the SHARE Challenge as a case study.
SHARE is a competition-based crowdsourcing project launched by the Government of South
Australia aiming to engage citizens in sharing economy entrepreneurial ventures. The
competition received 88 eligible ideas from different stakeholders, and the study conducted a
content analyses of these ideas for investigating the profile of the citizens and the type of the
sharing economy ideas that were inspired by the SHARE. Tourism was found to be the sector
attracting most of the submitted ideas for starting-up a sharing economy entrepreneurial venture
aiming to make sustainable use of tourism resources. The findings provide evidence on how
SHARE has ‘educated’, inspired, and activated the citizens to engage in sustainable
entrepreneurship.
...
Publisher
SpringerParent publication ISBN
978-3-030-05939-2Conference
Information and Communication Technologies in TourismIs part of publication
Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2019 : Proceedings of the International Conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, January 30-February 1, 2019Keywords
Publication in research information system
https://converis.jyu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/28790561
Metadata
Show full item recordCollections
- Kauppakorkeakoulu [1270]
License
Related items
Showing items with similar title or keywords.
-
Green IT perspective on sustainable smart tourism development
Pöyhönen, Silja (2019)Älyturismi on teknologian kehityksen synnyttämä turismin muoto, jossa informaatioteknologiaa käytetään laajasti turismin tukena. Älyturismissa informaatioteknologiaa käytetään älykkäiden turistipalveluiden luomiseen, ... -
The paradox of sustainable development : a conceptual framework for sustainability-driven family entrepreneurship from socio-emotional wealth perspective
Buah, Eric (2013)Sustainability-driven Entrepreneurship (SE) has recently received considerable attention in entrepreneurship and sustainability literature in mainstream journals. It is topical in the literature because scholars believe ... -
Tourism-related informal interaction in Chembe, Malawi : an ethnographic study
Vuorensyrjä, Katja (2016)Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan turismin liittyvää vapaamuotoista kanssakäymistä paikallisten malawilaisten sekä ulkomaalaisten asukkaiden ja matkailijoiden välillä. Etnografinen pääaineisto on kerätty Malawissa keväällä 2013 ... -
A case of Ecotourism in Zanzibar : Potential and Pitfalls
Thomsen, Agnes Mwakanjuki (2022)Matkailua pidetään yhtenä maailman nopeimmin kasvavista sektoreista, ja ekomatkailu on noussut yhdeksi sen merkittävimmistä alaryhmistä tähän mennessä. Afrikan itärannikolla sijaitseva Sansibarin saari tarjoaa runsaasti ... -
Can TikTok Sound Enhance Tourism SMEs’ Engagement?
Wahid, Risqo; Karjaluoto, Heikki; Ukpabi, Dandison; Taiminen, Kimmo (Springer, 2023)This study explores the role of sound and its interaction with marketergenerated content (MGC) (i.e., emotional, informational, transactional) in influencing customer engagement (CE) (i.e., views and shares) in the context ...