The aim of the paper is to study the factors influencing the development process of networking collaborations between small and medium-sized in Italian touristic system. These businesses must choose the network because of the difficulty of growing and because they need to achieve competitive advantage.Design/Methodology/Approach: The survey was carried out by administering a questionnaire addressed to a sample of travel agencies and tour operator affiliated to FIAVET (Italian Federation of Associations of Travel and Tourism Company). The analysis sample is made from 1.034 small and medium -sized enterprises.Originality/Value sustainability: This paper aims to contribute to the recent studies on the management and governance of small and medium-sized tourism enterprises, with the effort to improve the competitiveness of small and micro enterprises. These studies are trying to identify the most suitable business formula in order to achieve the competitive advantage.Findings: A network consists of actors who sometimes belong to related economic sectors. It represents an organizational model that can overcome the difficulties caused by the tourism offer fragmentation that exists in Italy and abroad. Limits:The narrowness of the sample and the economic sector of the businesses interviewed suggest a number of new directions of scientific research that have not yet been adequately studied for tourism studies.
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The purpose of this paper is to verify whether the nature of the relationship between a tourist destination and tourist enterprises operating within its territory, can be defined as co-evolutionary. This paper derives from the continuation of previous researches of ours about the topic of destination management and destination governance. The theoretical background of this paper is based on the following research question: within the framework of the international tourist scenario, are there tourist hospitality models designed as a prototype of co-evolution between the tourist destination and its territory? In this paper, the analysis perspective which is considered the most appropriate to qualify the nature of the relationship among a given tourist destination and its tourist enterprises is the co-evolutionary perspective. According to such perspective, tourist enterprises co-evolve together with tourist destinations, while looking for long-term competitive advantages: tourist enterprises are considered critical resources to the development of the territory and vice versa. The co-evolutionary process implies the identification of a governance body able to exploit and enhance the systemic resources made available by the territory and to inspire the management approach of the different tourist enterprises. The absence of specific case studies represents a limit of the present paper. Hence, with a view to a subsequent future research, we will continue the proposed analysis by enriching it with empirical evidence, which will be useful to foster the debate on the subject matter and for the related entrepreneurial and management implications.
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