- Title
- Professional development barriers and benefits in a tourism knowledge economy
- Creator
- Lyons, Kevin D.; Young, Tamara; Hanley, Joanne; Stolk, Paul
- Relation
- International Journal of Tourism Research Vol. 18, Issue 4, p. 319-326
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2051
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- This study investigates small to medium tourism enterprise (SMTE) owner-managers' intentions to seek professional development. SMTEs in a regional tourism destination were surveyed, and an exploratory factor analysis identified barriers to, and benefits of, professional development factors. Logistic regression analysis was used to predict SMTE owner-manager's intention to pursue professional development based on perceived benefits of and barriers to training factors, education level and business size. 'Staff performance benefits' and 'time/cost barriers' of owner-manager's intention to seek professional development opportunities for staff. 'Business performance benefits' predicted owner-manager's intentions to seek professional develop for themselves. Implications of the findings are discussed.
- Subject
- tourism knowledge economy; SMTEs; education and training; professional development; human resource management
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1319694
- Identifier
- uon:23940
- Identifier
- ISSN:1099-2340
- Language
- eng
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