Tourism/Hospitality and family business: a perspective article

Abstract

Purpose

This perspective article provides a compact view on past and promising future research of family business in tourism/hospitality research, an industry that is dominated and driven by family firms.

Design/methodology/approach

This article draws on a review of key literature from family business and tourism/hospitality research, and synchronizes this literature for understanding the groundings and development of the field.

Findings

The article finds that there are peculiar research gaps and needs concerning gender roles, sub-industries/family networks, later generation conflicts as well as differences in life cycle stages between emerging and developing countries.

Originality/value

This article summarizes the state of the art of research for family business in tourism/hospitality and provides a novel agenda for theory advancement and research of practical relevance.

Citation

Kallmuenzer, A. and López-Chávez, B.A. (2024), "Tourism/Hospitality and family business: a perspective article", Journal of Family Business Management, Vol. 14 No. 4, pp. 852-859. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFBM-10-2023-0196