Sangam: A Confluence of Knowledge Streams

Climate change mitigation among accommodation providers in the South West of England: comparisons between members and non-members of networks

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dc.creator Coles, Tim
dc.creator Zschiegner, Anne-Kathrin
dc.date 2015-03-02T14:12:33Z
dc.date 2011-04
dc.date 2015-03-02T14:12:33Z
dc.identifier Vol. 11, Issue 2, pp. 117 - 132
dc.identifier 10.1057/thr.2011.5
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10871/16433
dc.identifier 1467-3584
dc.identifier 1742-9692
dc.identifier Tourism and Hospitality Research
dc.description notes: Submitted as part of a theme issue invited from BEST EN conference in Vienna 2010
dc.description publication-status: Published
dc.description types: Article
dc.description © SAGE Publications, 2011
dc.description Networks are a well-established feature in contemporary tourism governance and management. This paper examines the extent to which there are differences among members and non-members of tourism networks in their efforts to introduce measures to mitigate the effects of climate change in their operations. Among accommodation providers in the South West of England, there is no significant difference between members and non-members of networks in the modest levels of innovation they have introduced. This is not to suggest that networks lack importance. Formal networks appear to provide an ideal platform if messages are promoted more carefully. Rather the paper argues their importance may also lie 'beyond the network'. A fuller appreciation of their role in mediating sustainable tourism is only possible by considering the dynamics of membership and hence the potential for knowledge spillovers, boundary spanning behaviour, and the mediation of additional informal networks.
dc.description Economic and Social Research Council
dc.language en
dc.publisher Sage
dc.relation http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-185-31-0094/outputs/read/18a592fc-0678-46ad-9a26-6ce356af68a7
dc.subject Tourism
dc.subject Climate change
dc.subject Mitigation
dc.subject Innovation
dc.subject Networks
dc.title Climate change mitigation among accommodation providers in the South West of England: comparisons between members and non-members of networks
dc.type Article


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