“…The intent of this research has been to advance the understanding of the influence of owner/managers’ behavioural characteristics on their financing decision making and financial choices. Prior research (Kim et al, 2021 ; Owusu-Manu et al, 2021 , Owusu-Manu et al, 2019 , Nkwocha et al, 2019 ; Aninze et al, 2018 ; Khawaja et al, 2016 ; Hussain & Matlay, 2007 ; Hussain et al, 2006 ) has considered the finance gaps for SMEs and identified lack of collateral and information asymmetry as the major factors that make SME risky clients and cause them to get excluded from formal financial provisions. This paper bridges the small enterprise literature, traditional financing concepts, and extended planned behaviour theories and sets out to explain why small tourism businesses are not always innovative in using different financing sources.…”