Journal of Family Business Management: Volume 12 Issue 3

Guest editorial: Family business in tourism and hospitality

Marco Valeri

Mapping research on family business in tourism and hospitality: a bibliometric analysis

Shekhar Shekhar, Anjali Gupta, Marco Valeri

This study aims to map the development of research on family business in tourism and hospitality and provides insights into the key contributors, key areas and current dynamics…

Family firm succession in tourism and hospitality: an ethnographic case study approach

Andreas Kallmuenzer, Kayhan Tajeddini, Thilini Chaturika Gamage, Daniel Lorenzo, Alvaro Rojas, Michael Josef Alfred Schallner

Grounded in stewardship theory, this study explores the motives, actions and meanings of multiple stakeholders involved in an inter-family hospitality family firm succession.

Promoting small family businesses through OCOP program and tourism activities in rural areas in Vietnam: the case of Bac Giang province

Anh Thi Phuong Le, Puvaneswaran Kunasekaran, Neethiahnanthan Ari Ravagan, Hung Ngoc Le, Tuan Thanh Nguyen, Thang Vu Luong

One Commune One Product (OCOP) program, a rural economic development program in Vietnam, aims to empower local communities for sustainable social and economic welfare development…

We are in survival mode: how family-owned small foodservice firms in India responded to the Covid-19 pandemic

Senthilkumaran Piramanayagam, Saurabh Kumar Dixit, Partho Pratim Seal

The purpose of this paper is to examine the crisis faced, strategies adopted, barriers for recovery and the future outlook by the operators of family-owned small foodservice…

Online branding strategies of family SME wineries: a Hungarian-German comparative study

Ivan Paunovic, Nóra Obermayer, Edit Kovari

Both Hungary and Germany belong to the old-world wine-producing countries and have long winemaking traditions. This paper aims at exploring and comparing online branding…

Family businesses in the tourism industry: a research agenda

Hüseyin Ozan Altın, Ige Pirnar, Engin Deniz Eriş, Ebru Gunlu

The purpose of this study is to construct a comprehensive review on family businesses in the tourism industry since glocalization and small businesses comprise most of the…

Exploring the life cycle of family-owned tourism businesses in maturity

Beatriz Adriana López-Chávez, César Maldonado-Alcudia

The aim of this paper is to analyze the life cycle of family-owned hotels in the maturity phase from the integration of theoretical models for family-owned tourism businesses.

Coping mechanisms of Philippine tourism and hospitality family businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic: a non-parametric approach

Andrea Santiago, Fernando Martin Roxas, John Paolo Rivera, Eylla Laire Gutierrez

Family businesses (FB), mostly small-sized, dominate the tourism and hospitality industry (THI), especially in the rural areas. While many would have been used to the impact of…

Assessment of the quality of the service perceived in specific contexts of management of a family business

Carla Martins Igreja, Bruno Barbosa Sousa, Tiago Silva, Cláudia Miranda Veloso

The aim of this paper is to apply the SERVQUAL model to evaluate the quality perceived by customers in the context of family hotel management in Portugal. More specifically, to…

Thriving family businesses in tourism and hospitality: A systematic review and a synthesis of the relevant literature

Mark Anthony Camilleri, Marco Valeri

This contribution appraises previous theoretical underpinnings that are focused on family businesses in tourism and hospitality. It discusses about the opportunities and…